School and volleyball. Volleyball on Thursdays is not required for my team but I went anyway to play with the "infatils" while Sebastian played soccer.
March 19th
School, volleyball and CVX. School was decent. We have music class on fridays as well as philosophy which should be super easy classes but are super hard for me. Oh well. I got a compliment; I was told that I am buena onda (soemthign like that) which means nice. I know the phrase ¿Qué onda? as 'whats up' but never really learnt the direct traslation. I'm in awe that some one can see that I am a nice person and tell me within 2 weeks even with the little spanish I have. If you counld not follow my thought process there the conclusion is just that I am really happy that my personality still is aparent.
Volleyball afterschool was lukily easy because of the game the following day. We just played 6 on 5/4 until 5:30/6 and then sat around talking when guys basketball needed the gym.
Because ended so early I took a quick shower when I got home and then joined Mamá and Igncaia in the car to drop off Sebastian off at Juampie's house for CVX. CVX is a club that stands for Comunidad, Vida, Cristiana or community, life, christianity. I had asked if I could join because it seems like for a good majority of my grade that is the activity on friday night and it will be a good way to do some community service. The usual process for joining the club takes a week because the participants have to vote on each person before they can join. I guess they were expecting me because when we dropped of Sebastian he talked with Juampie for about 30 secounds, turned around, told us not to leave, ran inside and came back out in 2 seconds tell me I could join them that night. There were 6 other kids including Ismael who early that day had told me that he wasn't really religious at all, he just goes to a catholic school because of his father. CVX started off with a prayer and then they started talking. we had dinner and after dinner we decided what our "project" would be. We decided on visiting abuelitos or seniors to talk with then 1 or 2 times a month. CVX is a club that helps out the community through communication rather than physical labor by the way. Over all it was pretty fun but most of the converstion was really hard to understand and I was tired. Oh well it will get easier eventually.
March 20th
Volleyball game!!! On the way there I drove in the coaches car with two other girls. Sebatian is jealous of me, whant to know why? Because The coaches car is a beautiful Eclipse that he had to go to Miami to buy. At multiple points during the trip we were going a good 80-100mph weaving in and out of traffic, but don't tell mom...(jaja)
I didn't have the right shorts or socks. Some one had brought shorts for me (which were way to small but hey I wore them) but I ended up wearing the coaches socks. awkward.....
I played fairly well I just need to fix a few things (get into the game sooner, know where I am in the front so I don't hit some one else's set, and know when to block and when to get off the net). I played the whole game which was fabulous. The game was soo close we lost the 3rd set buy two points. Final score: (25-17),(22-25),(16-18) MUY CERCA!!!
After that I came home (Coach drove faster on the way back becasue we weren't following anybody), took a shower and ate lunch. AFS people came over at 5 for once (literally 11 but it is the word for "tea-time"). Daniel, the boy from Melbourne, Australia was the first to arrive with his mother. His spanish is amazing. He has a chilean accent and participates in conversations like it is his native toung. I AM SO JEALOUS!!! He was in Punta Renias (far south Chile) for the first 2 and 1/2 months and then switched families and came here. He had troubles because he did not participated enough with his family. I'm glad that is not that my problem. Now he seems to be in a perfect placement with help from a change of attitude. The girl from Norway couldn't make it but Carola and Minami came. Both Carola and Minami speak only a little spanish and their native language isn't english but they both appear to be doing amazing dispite this. It was really fun. I felt really confident with my spanish the whole evening and met a lot of really cool people. My advisor is Carmen Gloria herself and her husband who is one of the principals at my school. Here is a photo of everyone. I'll tag people on facebook.
Sebastian had been out all day and came back about a half an hour after every one had left (which was at 9:30 ish). We had tacos and cake together and talked about our days. We had both had sports in the morning and after that he went to Santiago for CVX and to visit a family that he had built a house for last year. It was a good day but unfortunalty I haven't been to a carrete yet. People still are kind of shaken up from the earthquake.
March 21st
Slept it, had breakfast, played some games with Ignacia and then helped make lunch. We had tacos but insead of tacos they use pancakekes which is a crêp. I made the crêps and everyone was quite impresses that I didn't compleatly fail. "Bueno Becky". During lunch we were talking about Easter (or Semana Santa) and so I went online to look up Passover to see when that is. it starts the 30th and ends the 5th so basically the exact same time as Semana Santa. I called home just as my CO family was headed out the door to New Mexico. I had a 20 minute conversation with them and afterword expalined it all to Ignacia who had listened to it all dispite a great ammount of confusion. After we went swimming and now I am sitting here typing. Interesting yea? I am going into Santiago now to drop off Max at school. I'll take fotos no preocupan!
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