Mushroom Factory and Final Dance Lesson

It’s already Thursday; this trip is going by so quickly! We started our day off with another lecture down at the university, followed by another lunch at the cafeteria. After that, we headed down to our next company visit, the mushroom factory. A lot of people say they enjoyed this visit, but I can’t really say that I shared the same feelings as them. It’s not that the tour was boring, it was just that I could not stand the foul smell that comes out of from making mushrooms. I honestly almost threw up! I don’t even know how to explain the smell other than saying that you honestly don’t want to inhale that foul aroma. Aside from the smell, the visit was interesting. We saw the whole process that is involved in the production of the mushrooms. There is a good amount of chemistry that goes into making one of these little puffy mushrooms. My favorite part of the visit was when we went into the giant dark room where the mushrooms actually grew. It didn’t smell in there, and the place was quite interesting! After the visit, we all headed down to the university, again, for our final dancing lesson. Today’s lesson was on rigitone, and it was the most difficult of all the lessons so far! The instructor doesn’t really tell us how to do the dance; he just does it and makes us keep up with his pace. Even though the lesson was hard, they were still fun and I am glad they were part of our itinerary. After the lessons, we gave the instructor a gift for helping us, and then we got dinner. After that, I got back to the hotel where I am blogging and waiting for the Chilean students to take us out again!