So, there I was with my mom, standing on the balcony of Star Princess at the crack of dawn to see the Amalia Glacier in the central part of Chilean Southern Patagonian Ice Fields. The glacier descended from the Andes Mountains and sat like a frozen river above the sea. It had immense weight, and the oxygen had been pressed out of the ice, presenting it with a stunning crystalline appearance and a strange blue glow that caused it to have a light or dark texture. My science geek Mom gave me a quick lesson about it. Red and yellow light were absorbed magically when majestic glaciers acted like filters. A crevasse or deep hole leaves light at the blue end of the visible light spectrum. Being a tidewater glacier along the coastline, the Amalia Glacier changed occasionally and shrank like other glaciers upon global warming. It was the very first experience that I had ever seen such a large iceberg!
Mom looked at the wall clock as I couldn't hold my patience any more. It was time for me to start at the Youth Center. When I hopped wildly through its entrance, I was astonished that no one was there except the instructor and another girl named Keiry from Vancouver, Canada. Since there weren't enough people to do most of the activities, she and I settled on making Lego spinners. We spent hours building an a-foot-long spinner and had to try different approaches. The tip got crushed under the weight, and the entire body threatened to blow, which almost freaked us out. But after all our hard work was made, an enormous, colorful structure with random Lego pieces stuck out from here and there. We tried to test it. But it spans without balance and throws itself off the table. The loud crash meant that the spinner didn't survive. Right then, more people showed off! Instead of one by one, they came by the tide. We could hear the doorbell ring several times in a minute, and soon it became crowded again. No more space was available for most of the Lego pieces laid on the floor. We all rushed to hang out with video games till the end of the morning.
After my mom picked me up, we went straight to the restaurant. As for lunch, I had the daily special potato soup for my appetizer. As I slurped up the last drop, the entree was closely followed, served with chicken stew. The flavor was so delicious that the potato soup tasted like garbage.
After devouring my main course, I immediately ran up the elevator to meet my friends in the Youth Center. A teacher gave us a pop-dance lesson. Some of us were asked to sit and watch while the others were dancing. The next moment, everybody was fighting over a chair to sit on. The teacher told us "Boys, only the children with asthma could take a chair." With a blink, the other boys and I zipped away and hid in awkward places. After all were found, we began doing weird dances exclusively for Freeze Dance. Although it sounded funny, we caught up with an excellent moment to play Duck-Duck-Goose.
