The "Mechoneo"

How I Lived the Mechoneo.

When I started the university, I knew the “mechoneo” but I had never seen it before. It is a  welcome tradition to the universities, the guys of second year of your career, prepare to you a lot of  disgusting thing, like rotten food, they put "manjar" in your body, throw you thigs like, eggs and flour, and sometimes they cut your clothes.

In my case I was so nervous for this day; even it was a surprise day, until the day came. 

I remember that  a student of other year came in the classroom to make us a diagnostic test, the start of the test appear serious but after the answer became in others things, like related with sex, ( it was really amusing) and after that, the guys of second year, enter to the classroom and the “mechoneo” started.

They made us take off our shoes, and tie us with a cord. Later we went to the outside and in the route, the second grade guys, threw us flour, put "manjar" in my ears, and some classmates put it in their underarm and they paint our faces. I remember that I catch a girl who was "mechonenado" and got dirty her clothes, after that she shouted: "MECHON REBELDE!!!" and a lot of her partners came to threw me a lot of thigs, I                                                                              don’t know what thigs I had.

Back in the university, the guys for second have some activities, it was really funny, but after that come a disgust part in the "mechoneo": we had to pass in a "tube" with decomposed vegetables, some fish heads, etc.

Later I we must to beg for money in the streets until have $20000. I remember that I don’t had the money, because I went to lonely places (I don’t know Santiago yet :( ) with Soledad, she was my "Mechoneo" partner. And the guys of second obligated to me and Soledad to go to get more money. It really was horrible.

 After we delivered the money, I try to clean me, but it was really difficult. I put a shirt and I come back to my house, so tired and with a lot of pain in my feet.

it was a strange experience, in part of the activity it was funny but after, the only thing I wanted was the mechoneo finished.

The next day, I couldn't take the smell off my nose. And my feet really hurt. I don’t repeat this experience.