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

concierto... fin de semana.

Thursday:
Wicked awesome! I enjoyed Devil Wears Prada more this time then when I saw them in Boulder. There was a lot more energy this time. The venue was tiny and there was a looooot of people. within 2 minuntes after entering i was aready smashed up against the 5 closest people and the music hadent even started. The opening band only played 3 songs which was a shame becasue I really liked them (they are a chilean hardcore band called Alive i think....) DWP got onstage really early, at about 6:30, 7. There was so many people sweating and it was so humid that it was hard to stand the floor tile were so slippery. The show ended early, about 10, and we waited across the street with a friend of Carol (the friend I went with). We got picked up and got dropped off at Carol's cousin's house (Panchi is also our classmate) to wait until Carol's parents got home.

Friday:
We woke up, had breakfast (which was bigger then the breakfast we eat in my house) and left for school in the rain. I was so exausted. I tried to sleep in history but we ended up have a "socratic seminar" conversation about homosexualtity and there was no way I could miss that. I'm pretty proud of myself i ended up talking more then some of my friends.
After school I went to volleyball practice, CVX and then to a "carrete" in the school to celebrate the soccer tournament the was held in our school (which by the way we came in 7th our of 10 teams). It was in the school's cafeteria and practically none of the guys were dancing because they had all been playing soccer all day ie: not the best party. We left at about 2 got home and slept!!

Sat:
Lazy day. watched most of Avatar and then left for my friend's house @ 4 ish. We were celebrating Nico's birthday. We made sushi (with rice that had wayyy too much water in it)
and i made calzones rotos (literally "ripped underwear" they are kindof like a thicker doughnut) almost all by my self.
I slept over there and got picked up in the moring by Max.

Sun:
Made french toast for breakfast. I only made 7 which was not enough. next time i'll have to make 3 pieces for each man in the house and 2 for us girls....

Mom's question: What do you do @ parties? Talk, dance, play ping pong? what soda? Coke or Pepsi? The party was outside can the nighbors here? Do parents really come pick up their kids at 3 in the morning?

At the bigger parties they dance. @ mine there were fewer people so it was talk and music. There is both coke and pepsi here but coke is more popualr. I also got Fanta and Sprite. It was outside and pretty loud too. The houses aren't as close as in Boulder but i'm still pretty sure that the neighbors could hear. No one complains though. And yes, no one here drives so the parents come and pick up the kids @ 3 in the morning. usually what happens is one parent takes 3-5 other kids who live in same direction... Aren't you glad I have my licence now?

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Do you talk/dance/ play games (ping-pong) at the parties? Does everyone drink Coke or Pepsi or another brand? Since it was outside can neighbors hear? Do parents come pick up their kids at 3am?

At the bigger parties they dance. @ mine there were fewer people so it was talk and music. There is both coke and pepsi here but coke is more popualr. I also got Fanta and Sprite. It was outside and pretty loud too. The houses aren't as close as in Boulder but i'm still pretty sure that the neighbors could hear. No one complains though. And yes, no one here drives so the parents come and pick up the kids @ 3 in the morning. usually what happens is one parent takes 3-5 other kids who live in same direction... Aren't you glad I have my licence now?

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At the bigger parties they dance. @ mine there were fewer people so it was talk and music. There is both coke and pepsi here but coke is more popualr. I also got Fanta and Sprite. It was outside and pretty loud too. The houses aren't as close as in Boulder but i'm still pretty sure that the neighbors could hear. No one complains though. And yes, no one here drives so the parents come and pick up the kids @ 3 in the morning. usually what happens is one parent takes 3-5 other kids who live in same direction... Aren't you glad I have my licence now?

Birtday and Mothers Day

Cumpleaños- 8 de Mayo
GOOD DAY (DÍA FILETE)! I got woken up with a fruit tart with magic candles, the kind that are hard to blow out when you are not half asleep to begin with. It was a really chill. In the afternoon we dropped Sebastian at a friends house to study (after which he was going to head off to Santiago) and Ignacia (with two of her compañeros) to a birthday party. We went to the mall after that to pick up somethings none of which we found.
At about 7 Max came home a started helping me to set up the music and all in the carretina (outside patio with roof). at about quarter to 8 Daniel, the other exchange student, came over b/c it was it easier for his mom and hey, its fine by me. People started arriving ay about 9. The parents and younger siblings of my friend Cocó to hang out with my family in the house while i was the party was going on outside. About 30 people ended up coming. I got gifts too!
-Cake My friend made a cake with layers of manjar, cake and cream as my gift along with a chile refrigerator magnet. I got it in my face.TORTEZA
-mucho, mucho, mucho chocolate
-indiopicaro (a comun southern chilean souvenir thats a indian and you lift it up and it's d**k pops out, how fab)
-baretes/hairclips
-makeup
-gummies
-more chocolate
-notebook with a chilean design in bronze
-wooden jar (also says chile)
-a shirt
-A CHILEAN FLAG that almost everyone at the party signed!! It is full sized and now hanging on my wall
I think thats it. ALOT OF GIFTS!!!
Everyone left at about 3AM and after that i crashed.

Mother's day
I was going to make French toast, but we all woke up at about 11, so we just waited to eat until lunch and i'll make french toast another time. We filled into the kitchen where my mom was each with a rose and the gifts that we got her. Our grandma came over with empanadas for lunch. The rest of the day was normal; studied, read, facebooked.

What is the big yellow roof thing next to the soccer field by your house?

I still haven't figure out what your talking about sorry!

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the first day back in boulder you should go hang out with friends ALL day!!! also YOU ARE SUCH A PRETTY BRUNETTE!!!!!

That sounds soo great! but I think i need to spend time with my family. how about if i go for a hike in the morning with them and then go swimming/go to the park with friends in the afternoon/evening. perrrrfecccttt!!

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How are your classes going? How much homework do you have each night? Are classes easier or harder than in Boulder? Are you able to understand all the Spanish spoken?

Classes are fine. I mean i'm not really trying that hard. I sit in class with my dictionary and take the notes but don't stress about the tests or anything. The classes here are definatly easier. Like if I understood more the the 60%-70% of everything spoken I would have a 100% in every class, except for geography because it is all new. For example my math class is like freshman/sophmore year, my history class is like a regular world history class, physics I took the semester before I left, chemistry is easy enough to understand.... I don't really have any homework any nights. There are math worksheets that I can work on but really those i usually worked on in class... Other then that I am doing a Topic Speech for English (but I'm doing it in spanish) yea, whatever.

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You are a beautiful Brunette. What does your Chilean family think of this? Did you ask them first? Are you treated differently now that you do not lo

Thank you! Well my family definatly liked my blonde hair better but they don't hate this hair or anything. I did not ask them first but neither did the other boy who changed his hair with me... i was kinda following what he was doing. I'm not treated super differently just about the same. I think I stick out a little less now tho.

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CrAzY WEEK!

THE ALIANZA:
This event celebrates the establishment of the school. Basically every school here has at least one and sometimes two every year. My school for this event divided in to two groups, China/red and Brazil/green, according to class. (This year it was IV˚A with III˚B and II˚A, ect... and IV˚B with III˚A ect...). The activities started Wednesday but starting wednesday the week before the practicing, and planning started. I participated in the Flash Mob (a coriographed dance in the street strating with one person and then more and more people add to it, youtube it), cheerleaders, volleyball, basketball and Extreme Makeover.
We lost the Flash Mob; it was kinda a flop. We shuttled over to the plaza in San Bernardo to film and there was not as many people there as we hoped. We were playing the music out of a car whose speakers were not the best so in the video you can't really hear the music.
Funny story about the cheerleaders. After learning about 3 minuntes of a dance in about the same number of days i realized that i couldn't eve participate because i didn't have the clothes AND THEN the next day when they all came out they weren't even wearing the clothes that i was missing. gurrr!!! well it saved me from having to learn the secound half of the dance....
Volleyball and basketball both went well, we won the two. It's been the longest time since i've played basketball but i still played comparativly well.
EXTREME MAKEOVER: about 5 minuntes after we got into the gym one of the alianza bosses came over to my roup and asked everyone if they were willing to participate it Extreme makeover. I kinda said i would. I really had no idea what i was getting myself into. After finding a guy to go with me and two others to dress us up we hopped on a bus and headed to San Bernardo to get cheep stuff. I picked out a brown hair color and for Nico we picked out a bloned that we never even ended up using becasue the bleach worked well enough.


We went to the house of my friend's grandma to get help from her aunt to do the hair. After coloring my roots we realized that it wasnt enough so the girls ran to get more to finish. And becasue of this my roots are now much darker then the rest of my hair. oh well!!! After we finished with the hair we went to a second hand store and got a skirt that my butt barely fit it. We then went to the other friend's house to eat lunch (already 3:00 btw), take a nap and get ready. We all pilled in the car at 6:30 and headed of to school. (We had half a day and then people returned at night to finish the alianza). To enter school I needed to put a bag over my head and run. Thank the lord I have good friends to guide me when I'm blind. Luckily we won, but hey it was obvious, who can reject these faces?

Al final we didn't win but hey, it was fun. After the winner was announced everyone went over to Manu's house for a carrete. It was freezing so we started dancing right when we got there. It wasn't the best of the partys according to my friends but hey, it was a party.

Please tell us about this party where everyone changed hair color?

hahaha. this is a long story. the short version is:
This week was my school's alianza. this is a huge birthday celebration for the school. three days of activities and lots to ANIMO! the last day one of the activities was extreme makeover. two people from each team went with two helpers and compleatly changed looks. I, the blondie, changed to rocker and Nico, starting with black hair, bleached it and went punk. the two others from the other team did the same thing. (different styles). IE: not EVERYONE changed their hair, just 4 of us.

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