Written by Guadalupe Vial Ulloa Celebrating Chilean Spring  September in Chile is one of the year’s most expected and exciting months. It is not only the start of spring and end of winter, but also the “18th,” also known as “dieciocho” or “fiestas patrias,” is the celebration of the first government junta, kind of like Canada Day. Only we make it so much bigger. Growing up, September meant the start of warmer weather, beach days and hikes, and a whole week off school, with massive dancing, eating, playing, and drinking parties every day and tons of strangers sleeping in my house that I didn’t know where they came from. So…