SKINS: lots of COCAAAAINE + mental illnesses = bad times

Once again, it's been awhile since I watched this last episode of Skins, but I remember liking it surprisingly much in spite of its being a Freddie episode?  It was actually pretty good!  Granted, a good 60% of why I liked it was because Cook was able to break out of prison super early and act his little juvenile delinquent heart out in the last 3 minutes.  Yay!  He is definitely the best actor on the show now, at least since Effy went all mysterious, brooding Slutty McSluttypants on us.  Anyways, RECAP AWAY!

So, this ep begins with Freddie and Effy having a raucous drugs-and-sex-filled evening in Effy's parents' house.  They're doing all sorts of crazy things ALL OVER Effy's parents' house.  Sexing it up on the stairs, even!  It's sort of weird how both of her parents have seemingly disappeared forever without stopping to say goodbye in any previous episode!  Oh well.  I'm sure everything's fine.

Freddie and Effy are so in love!  The next morning, Freddy makes a lovely breakfast-in-bed for Effy.  How sweet!  But Effy's just like "ehh, gimme the vodka and drugs."  Something is definitely up with her.  Weird.  So Freddy goes back to his normal house (turns out he still lives with his parents.  Lame!  What sort of 16-year-old DOES that?!?!) to grab some food or something, I don't know, and his dad yells at him for stealing all their food, or something like that.  They have a fight, Freddie's dad just DOESN'T UNDERSTAND what it's like to be in love, and so Freddy runs off to his grandpa's nursing home for a friendly chat with the only friendly, understanding adult he knows.  They play ping pong.

A list of all the awesome things I saw during my trip to southern Chile but failed to take pictures of because my camera broke

In Valdivia: 

(I actually took one picture here before my camera stopped working.  Look!  Some guys from the culinary school there were making a very, very long cake of some sort (maybe a strudel?) for the Teletón.)

• 5-7 humongous SEA LIONS (or lobos marinos, as they are known there.  Marine wolves!  LOLOL!) trying to steal fish from the fish market, which was right next to the river.  Instead of a picture, here's a video of a sea lion waddling ferociously down a street in Valdivia, which is in many ways WAY BETTER than any pictures would have been.
• Homero's Sandwich Shop - just a normal sandwich shop, but with like a hundred pictures strewn about of Homero Simpson eating really big sandwiches
• Communist graffiti slamming "el sistema de educacación" en Chile
• chocolate gnome shop - a store that sold NOTHING BUT CHOCOLATE GNOMES
• lots of beautiful and unbelievably picturesque bits of nature, including snow-capped mountains and lush green valleys and trees (oh so many trees!) and so many rivers and also the ocean!!!
• two CASTLES overlooking the place where the rivers meet the ocean (well, technically they were forts but everyone calls them "castillos," so.)
• I also caught a quick glimpse of an intense game of metalhead fútbol while on the bus near Valdivia.  Picture in your mind's eye a group of 15-20 metalheads, all with long metalhead hair and Megadeath/Metallica shirts and all sorts of heavy chains and spiky jewelry, furiously running about a soccer field.  A picture probably would not have captured the golden hilarity of this moment, but let me tell you, it was GREAT and I CHUCKLED.  

In Puerto Montt:

• Actually, don't think I missed much in Puerto Montt LOL.