So much i haven't written about, i dont know where to start...
I guess i'll go ahead and start at finals week.
Monday: it was the physics test but my friends from AFS that had been here for a year were leaving so i went to say good byes instead. IT WAS SO HARD. i am the WORST person in the world to say goodbuys. i never know what to say besides "te quiero tanto y te extrañaré mas q la chucha" (love you and i'll miss you more that the ____) After that i was invited to go to a friends house but i was so tired and didn't really know how to get back to my house so i just went home.
another day that week was the Bio test but i didn't take bio so i went to school and read and then after the test got out (10am) and went to go get my friends nose pierced. in the end we didnt find a place that was good and clean that would do it for under 18 so she didnt get it done. After another test (hhistory friday) we went to santiago towe went to a street called Bandera. this is a street where they sell clothes from the US hella cheap. i found 3 sweaters from colorado, one Nuggets, one broncos and one CU boulder. I bought a yellow volcome long-sleeve shirt and a teal sweater that says "mountain climbing grandma" on the back, i'm glad no one understands its meaning....After that i ment up w/ a friend to go to the Carrete of a school called San Ignacio del Bosque. the party was a bit fome but hanging out w/ my friend was nice. we went to her house to sleep and i pent the day there before i realized that i needed to get home to pack for 234
234 EXPIERENCE:
we left the house sunday morning and went to the CVX house in santiago where we ment up w/ our cuadrilla(work group), got instructions and then headed off in metro to Peñalolen which is the neighborhood in Santiago where we worked.
My cuadrilla was definalty THE BEST!!! we sang and danced. i taught them the banna song and we learnt one in dutch (because there was also an exchange student from Belgium in my group) and was sang them the whole time we wern't listinging to the music from the iPod touch that one girl had.
In total there were about 24 other exchange studentes. but the difference between them and me was that i was the othly one who 1) had been here for more than 2 weeks and 2) i was the only one who chose to go. for the rest is was obligatory w/ their program. Most of them didnt have any problems but i talked to one form the group from Chicago (there were 8) she said "i have reached a new level of hell" this was on the 3rd day i think but then i talked to her the last day and her mind changed a bit fortunatly.
Pega: the traslation of this word is basically work, i didn't figure this out untill after i had confused myself about 3 times. my cuadrilla's pega was in a pre-school for kids from 2 to 5 years.
most of the work was to paint and clean the gutters/roof. when the guys were up cleaning the roof one fell throuh the roof over the patio. luckily he didnt get hurt at all but it was scary.
we also played w/ the kids. in comparasion w/ Techo para Chile, i liked Techo better just because it was sooo cold this time but the people in CVX are so amazingly nice that i had equally a great time!!!
2nd week of vacations:
well todays friday so i have a few days left but so far i've:
slept, cooked, went to fantasinladia, gone to Santiago, tried to go skiing but in the end didn't because it snowed (and when it snows its impossible to get up there and ski) and slept over at a friends house. tomorrow i'm gonna have a little junta (party) with the students in my generation (there a 60 in total but not all will come). and then monday i hope to take my sister to see toy story or shrek. Tuesday school starts and i stuck a little note to lolliepops to give to my friends.
And now i better start to pack b/c i have a whole bunch of **** to fin in to my two bags.
WAAAA I DONT WANT TO LEAVE, but afortunalty i'm coming back to beautiful colorado in the summer
=D
Monday, July 19, 2010
Sunday, July 18, 2010
How were your finals? Did you only have one subject a day? How many hours were each subject?
haha finals.... yea there was a subject a day the first on thurday. we entered school the same time, at 8 and got let out at 10. each test was about 1 and a half long and then there was 1/2 an hour for revisions.
How is your Papa? Is his eye better?
yea there is still a little mark but he hasn't said anything about it in a while and it dosn't apper to be bothering him at all anymore.
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Viña del Mar, partidos, 1ro carrete de despedida
Viña:
Defiantly one of the most beautiful beach towns out there. I took the bus friday morning to the station in Viña, which was an easy $6 dollar, 2 hour trip and met up Maddie, another excahnge student from the US. After walking around and dropping off my stuff we ment up with more and more AFS-ers until there was 8 of us. When it was just four of us we watched the second half of the game against Spain, wich we lost, in a resturant with completos (hotdogs). We went to Maddie's house at about 7, went out for dinner and walked along the beach a bit. When we got back to her house we just talked for hours (unfortunatly in english).
In the morning we packed up and i went to get a piercing and Viki got a tiny tattoo. Viki, Hapftnor and I then took a bus back to santiago where viki went to Las Condes and Hapftnor and I came back to my house to get ready for Daniel's good-bye party.
Despedida:
There isn't too much to say about this. just that i had a great time! Both my friends from AFS and school were there so i did not have even one second where i didn't know what to do. I slept over and in the morning we had breakfast and then i took the bus home.
Partidos:
well we lost the game against Spain but we still managed to classify into the next round so Monday we played against Brazil. We had asado at my house. Unfourtunatly a piece of coal jumped from the fire and hit my dad in the eye. LUCKILY he closed it in time that it didn't get inside but still, now he has pain and a black line on his eyelid.
GREAT WEEKEND! (it also lasted 4 days... maybe thats why)
Defiantly one of the most beautiful beach towns out there. I took the bus friday morning to the station in Viña, which was an easy $6 dollar, 2 hour trip and met up Maddie, another excahnge student from the US. After walking around and dropping off my stuff we ment up with more and more AFS-ers until there was 8 of us. When it was just four of us we watched the second half of the game against Spain, wich we lost, in a resturant with completos (hotdogs). We went to Maddie's house at about 7, went out for dinner and walked along the beach a bit. When we got back to her house we just talked for hours (unfortunatly in english).
In the morning we packed up and i went to get a piercing and Viki got a tiny tattoo. Viki, Hapftnor and I then took a bus back to santiago where viki went to Las Condes and Hapftnor and I came back to my house to get ready for Daniel's good-bye party.
Despedida:
There isn't too much to say about this. just that i had a great time! Both my friends from AFS and school were there so i did not have even one second where i didn't know what to do. I slept over and in the morning we had breakfast and then i took the bus home.
Partidos:
well we lost the game against Spain but we still managed to classify into the next round so Monday we played against Brazil. We had asado at my house. Unfourtunatly a piece of coal jumped from the fire and hit my dad in the eye. LUCKILY he closed it in time that it didn't get inside but still, now he has pain and a black line on his eyelid.
GREAT WEEKEND! (it also lasted 4 days... maybe thats why)
Friday, June 18, 2010
RAIN DAY
This is exactly what I needed today(friday). I got to sleep in an extra 4 hours and now I am watching one of my favorite movies and typing al final!
TOUR TO THE NORTH
Thursday/Friday:
In the evening I went over to Daniels house (the other exchange student at my school) and waited for two other exchange students to arrive. We slept over there and then in the morning his mom dropped us off in Santiago at about 11. We went to lunch and walked over to the artesanal de Santa Lucia. An Artesanal is like a craf market. We ment up with a group a AFSers in the metro station, got a free dinner @ McDonalds. We got on the bus to sleep for our first night.
SAT:
We arrived in Caldera at 9:30. We ate breakfast right away and then changed to head off to the beach. I definatly didn't swim but i so wanted to.
We went to lunch (which for my table took about 2 hours to recieve our food) and then we went to a small artesanal. We came back recieved our cabañas, changed and headed off to walk around Caldera for a bit. When we came back I and another girl from my cabin went over to one of the guys cabañas and we palyed cards until about 2. The next day we learnt that they continued to play and pulled an all nighter. Smart men....
SUN:
woke up at 6 for a full day of driving. We stopped at this random hand in the middle of the desert, and a abandoned town where we looked at the cementary. We arrived in San Pedro de Atacama in the evening where we ate dinner and played spoons until late.
MON:
BICYCLE RIDING!!!! Finally after 3+ months I got on a bike!!!
We went about 25 minuntes down a road to a place called "Garganta del Diablo" or the devils throat. after lunch we left to drive to a lake in THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE that had pink falmangos. From there we went to Media Luna which is another national park. It was already dark so we didn't really get to see the dunes and rock formations but we got out of the bus and lied down on the ground to watch the stars. it was GENIAL(great)! We went back to San Pedro for the evening to buy and walk around and then went back to the hotel and played cards (again).
TUE:
Left super early to start driving. We passed Calera which is a HUGE mining town but we didnt get out. We stoped in Pica for lunch and fresh juice. This town was small but amazingly beautiful. After that we stopped in La Tirana. Every year they have a huge festival here with crazy costumes so we went to look at the church and plaza. In the evening we entered Iquique. It was really cool enering the city because it is a coast town and to get there one has to pracitcally go down a mountian pass. I counted 9 memorials for people who had died.
WED:
we walked around the center for a bit, bought things, then got on a boat and road out about 20 minuntes and back. For those who wanted to we had about 2 hours to go swiming and then we left for Zona Franca (Zofri) the tax free zone. I bought so much stuff. One outfit for me, a purse, 3 futbol jersies, and somehting else, i forget...
We came back and hung out in one of the rooms until 3.
THUR:
To Arica. We stopped at Humberston. This is an old mining setup. I dont really remember the word in english but its this mini-town with a chuch, theater, school, houses and a mine for families to come and live. When we arrived in Arica i escaped with Kate, Andrea and Mads to acomany them to get cigarretes and as we were leaving Javier was entering so we ended up walking around one large block with him.
FRI:
Went to the beach, went to this place to eat lunch and play football and i got soo bored but a least I got to tan.... We went to visit the Mural de Arica then the peruvian/bolivan Artesanal (everything super cheap) then got on the bus for the night.
SAT:
We woke up for breakfast in Antofagasta and then got back on the bus to drive some more, got out to take picures of the Tropic of Capricorn and then again in a mall on the other side of Antofagasta for lunch. Here, for some reason, I dont know why, I aggreed to pitch in with 3 guys and a girl to buy two family pizzas to eat in the mall and 5 small pizzas to take on the bus. BAD IDEA so much grease. We drove for the rest of the day and arrived in Caldera (de nuevo) at night.
SUN:
Left early for La Serena. We got there at about noon, got our rooms, changed and left for Valle Elique. This valley is amazinly beautiful but I was still was a bit disapointed because I wanted to hang around La Serena. We hung around the plaza for a hour or so and then drove up to the planetarium to look at the stars. This was really cool but also soooo cold. When We got back to the hotel we were given the dinning room area to hang out until 2/3-ish. After that people came over to my room to hang out.
MON:
Definatly the hardest day of the trip. The scenery on the drive from La Serena to Santiago is AMAZING but the entire time I was either sleeping or talking to my (now super close friends) about how hard it is to seperate. It was crazy how close of friends I became with the poeple on this trip. There are two girls from Finland who i could easily call my best friends. One day i'm visiting them!
TOUR TO THE NORTH
Thursday/Friday:
In the evening I went over to Daniels house (the other exchange student at my school) and waited for two other exchange students to arrive. We slept over there and then in the morning his mom dropped us off in Santiago at about 11. We went to lunch and walked over to the artesanal de Santa Lucia. An Artesanal is like a craf market. We ment up with a group a AFSers in the metro station, got a free dinner @ McDonalds. We got on the bus to sleep for our first night.
SAT:
We arrived in Caldera at 9:30. We ate breakfast right away and then changed to head off to the beach. I definatly didn't swim but i so wanted to.
We went to lunch (which for my table took about 2 hours to recieve our food) and then we went to a small artesanal. We came back recieved our cabañas, changed and headed off to walk around Caldera for a bit. When we came back I and another girl from my cabin went over to one of the guys cabañas and we palyed cards until about 2. The next day we learnt that they continued to play and pulled an all nighter. Smart men....
SUN:
woke up at 6 for a full day of driving. We stopped at this random hand in the middle of the desert, and a abandoned town where we looked at the cementary. We arrived in San Pedro de Atacama in the evening where we ate dinner and played spoons until late.
MON:
BICYCLE RIDING!!!! Finally after 3+ months I got on a bike!!!
We went about 25 minuntes down a road to a place called "Garganta del Diablo" or the devils throat. after lunch we left to drive to a lake in THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE that had pink falmangos. From there we went to Media Luna which is another national park. It was already dark so we didn't really get to see the dunes and rock formations but we got out of the bus and lied down on the ground to watch the stars. it was GENIAL(great)! We went back to San Pedro for the evening to buy and walk around and then went back to the hotel and played cards (again).
TUE:
Left super early to start driving. We passed Calera which is a HUGE mining town but we didnt get out. We stoped in Pica for lunch and fresh juice. This town was small but amazingly beautiful. After that we stopped in La Tirana. Every year they have a huge festival here with crazy costumes so we went to look at the church and plaza. In the evening we entered Iquique. It was really cool enering the city because it is a coast town and to get there one has to pracitcally go down a mountian pass. I counted 9 memorials for people who had died.
WED:
we walked around the center for a bit, bought things, then got on a boat and road out about 20 minuntes and back. For those who wanted to we had about 2 hours to go swiming and then we left for Zona Franca (Zofri) the tax free zone. I bought so much stuff. One outfit for me, a purse, 3 futbol jersies, and somehting else, i forget...
We came back and hung out in one of the rooms until 3.
THUR:
To Arica. We stopped at Humberston. This is an old mining setup. I dont really remember the word in english but its this mini-town with a chuch, theater, school, houses and a mine for families to come and live. When we arrived in Arica i escaped with Kate, Andrea and Mads to acomany them to get cigarretes and as we were leaving Javier was entering so we ended up walking around one large block with him.
FRI:
Went to the beach, went to this place to eat lunch and play football and i got soo bored but a least I got to tan.... We went to visit the Mural de Arica then the peruvian/bolivan Artesanal (everything super cheap) then got on the bus for the night.
SAT:
We woke up for breakfast in Antofagasta and then got back on the bus to drive some more, got out to take picures of the Tropic of Capricorn and then again in a mall on the other side of Antofagasta for lunch. Here, for some reason, I dont know why, I aggreed to pitch in with 3 guys and a girl to buy two family pizzas to eat in the mall and 5 small pizzas to take on the bus. BAD IDEA so much grease. We drove for the rest of the day and arrived in Caldera (de nuevo) at night.
SUN:
Left early for La Serena. We got there at about noon, got our rooms, changed and left for Valle Elique. This valley is amazinly beautiful but I was still was a bit disapointed because I wanted to hang around La Serena. We hung around the plaza for a hour or so and then drove up to the planetarium to look at the stars. This was really cool but also soooo cold. When We got back to the hotel we were given the dinning room area to hang out until 2/3-ish. After that people came over to my room to hang out.
MON:
Definatly the hardest day of the trip. The scenery on the drive from La Serena to Santiago is AMAZING but the entire time I was either sleeping or talking to my (now super close friends) about how hard it is to seperate. It was crazy how close of friends I became with the poeple on this trip. There are two girls from Finland who i could easily call my best friends. One day i'm visiting them!
Thursday, June 3, 2010
To the North!!
I'm leaving soon (as in minutes) to my friends house. I'm gonna spen the night there and then tomorrow we are headed on a bus tour of the North. the cities we'll be visiting are Caldera, San Pedro de Atacama, Iquique, Arica, Antofagasta y La Serena!!!! I am so excited i can baerly type in english. I'll blogg about it when I get back, and, of course, take LOADS of pictures!!
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
2nd TECHO PARA CHILE construction trip
Wednesday to Sunday
There was about 35 of us from La Misión who participed this time and Sebatian was not one of those, he stayed home to study, que fome. After school i went with Cocó to her house and then headed off to Santiago to meet up with the rest of the TPC people. Parents were invited but there were very few there, fortunatly because it's more fun w/ teens. I didn't reconize most of the kids there but i ran into a few that i knew from the time before. I went to GRANEROS and was in cuadrilla 8 with 6 other "high-schoolers"
We arrived in Graneros at about 10 or 11 and went to bed around 1 to then wake up at 6 the next day because we stayed in a school that was in session Thursday. LUCKILY we got mattresses. This is not commun during consturction but both times i've been to TPH i've had a confortable bed =D
We worked the first three days (which should have only been two) in on one house. the first day we didn't arrive until about 11:30 and then we had to cut down a tree. We barely had enough space to work, one side had about 2 ish feet to the wall of the in-use house and the other side had about 6 inches to the concrete fence.
This time it was definatly harder to finishe because we could only work till 6:30 with natural light and after that we never had enough light to really work.
The third day it rained right as we were finish up with the fitro and zinc (tarry paper to protect against leaks and metal roofing) it started to rain. Luckily i stayed dry under the half a roof that we had working on the doors and windows but still it was a bit stressful unpleasent.
The fourth day, because we didn't not have enough to start and finish a whole house, we joined cuadrilla 12 to finish thier house. We were only REALLY needed to lift the floor boards (we had to lift them over from the neighboor's house over a fence) but we still helped a lot. The fourth day made up for all the ick of the 3rd day, it was super fun. There was sun the whole day and good company (and food) which made the trip so worth it!
We got back to the school 8ish and waited about 2 more hours for the other groups to finish up. La Mision had our own bus to Plaza Sur (rather then central Santiago) and i got picked up there at about 12. As soon as i could i jusmped into the hot shower and washed myself until i felt at least clean enough to sleep in my bed (which took about half an hour) and finally collapsed in my bed. =D
overall good weekend
There was about 35 of us from La Misión who participed this time and Sebatian was not one of those, he stayed home to study, que fome. After school i went with Cocó to her house and then headed off to Santiago to meet up with the rest of the TPC people. Parents were invited but there were very few there, fortunatly because it's more fun w/ teens. I didn't reconize most of the kids there but i ran into a few that i knew from the time before. I went to GRANEROS and was in cuadrilla 8 with 6 other "high-schoolers"
We arrived in Graneros at about 10 or 11 and went to bed around 1 to then wake up at 6 the next day because we stayed in a school that was in session Thursday. LUCKILY we got mattresses. This is not commun during consturction but both times i've been to TPH i've had a confortable bed =D
We worked the first three days (which should have only been two) in on one house. the first day we didn't arrive until about 11:30 and then we had to cut down a tree. We barely had enough space to work, one side had about 2 ish feet to the wall of the in-use house and the other side had about 6 inches to the concrete fence.
This time it was definatly harder to finishe because we could only work till 6:30 with natural light and after that we never had enough light to really work.
The third day it rained right as we were finish up with the fitro and zinc (tarry paper to protect against leaks and metal roofing) it started to rain. Luckily i stayed dry under the half a roof that we had working on the doors and windows but still it was a bit stressful unpleasent.
The fourth day, because we didn't not have enough to start and finish a whole house, we joined cuadrilla 12 to finish thier house. We were only REALLY needed to lift the floor boards (we had to lift them over from the neighboor's house over a fence) but we still helped a lot. The fourth day made up for all the ick of the 3rd day, it was super fun. There was sun the whole day and good company (and food) which made the trip so worth it!
We got back to the school 8ish and waited about 2 more hours for the other groups to finish up. La Mision had our own bus to Plaza Sur (rather then central Santiago) and i got picked up there at about 12. As soon as i could i jusmped into the hot shower and washed myself until i felt at least clean enough to sleep in my bed (which took about half an hour) and finally collapsed in my bed. =D
overall good weekend
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