Wait? I met Boy George? Sweet!

My program director does everything and anything. She quite talented. She has been the official translator for Kofi Annan (the former UN Secretary General) and the Rolling Stones. Not only does she translate, she runs the COPA-IFSA program in Santiago, Chile and Valparaiso, Chile. On top of that, she use to be a professional ice skater, and now she is a judge on a Chilean TV program called, Stars on Ice (a type of program like Dancing with the Stars).

As you can imagine we were all interested to see this in action. The first night of the TV program, we went to a bar and watched it. It was pretty cool and we all decided that we wanted to see it live. Katty arranged for us to go to the program on the 11th of September. We got there really early and we got to hang out and watch them do some pre-recording for the show. Since the Chilean independence day was coming up on the 18th, they had a group of traditional dancers and a popular singer perform. It was neat to see exactly how all of this television magic was done. Later on as the recording was going on, Katty came over and said that we were really lucky and that Boy George was going to be coming to the show to play for the program. It was exciting because we were going to meet some really famous person.

Boy George came and he performed his songs. One of them being "Yes We Can" a song he wrote that gave me chills up my back. (Check out a link to a youtube video of the song.)It was a great song that really reminded me that this election really is about Hope v. The Past. It reminded me of why I am voting for Obama in this election. After he was done recording he came over to the audience and we started talking to him telling him that we were for Obama and that we were gonna vote for him. His response was "Is there really a choice?" It was great fun and a few of us got pictures with him (not me). It was a cool experience.

Being on Dancing with the Stars was fun, but it got boring pretty quickly. We were in the TV studio between 7:30pm and 1:00am. It was a very long night.