Well I am at school now actually waiting for school to begin; I have no clue why my mother needs to get me here so early it makes no sense. Any who, so I have some time now why not blog a bit.
I received an email ask me several questions about my life here in Chile, so I felt as though I should answer some of them. Everyday life seems to be a big topic of what people want to know about. So here goes a normal day.
0630
Wake up, shower, get dressed, eat breakfast, I was told by my mother to not make my bed she will do that and to not worry about cleaning my room. Ok fine with me.
0725
Leave the house, drive to school, which takes about 15 minutes on the scary roads I told you about earlier.
0740
Arrive at school, stand around and wait for my friends to show up which usually happens around 0800
0815
School starts, today’s schedule is as follows,
0815-0945 Math class- which I sit around and do nothing cause the teacher speaks no English and doesn’t expect me to do much until I sorta learn the language.
0945-1005 Break time- hang out with friends do nothing try to learn some Spanish.
1005-1135 Biology- I sorta understand what is going on in this class because all of the words have Latin bases in them and I remember them sorta from English so I try to pay attention in this class
1135-1145 Break time- have some sort of food that my mother packed for me and hang with friends
1145-1315 Music Class- I was told in this class we sit around listen to music for a bit and then have free time to jam and stuff. YAY sitting around doing nothing!!!
1315-1325 Break time – finish off the food that is packed in my bag
1325-1455 Language Class- yet again another class where I sit around and do nothing because I don’t understand the language!
For some strange reason they use the 24 hour clock in school but that is the only place so far I have seen use it.
After school I end up going home having a mid afternoon meal, yesterday I had spaghetti and salad, and after that I normally just hang out around the house use facebook, check mail, blog, or sleep. Around 2000 I will end up having dinner and after I check my facebook a few more times and talk to sparky or my parents then I am off to bed. Yea, really great life here. It’s sorta like being at home.
Oh one thing that keeps bugging me is this Spanish. To me I can’t get myself over the fact no one here speaks English. A few people do but I keep thinking this s a terrible Spanish class and everyone is just messing with me and not speaking English to me at all. I am learning more and more everyday.
Ok so last time I blogged I was venting about how miserable I was here. Well that def changed after last weekend. I figured out how to make myself happier. Hanging with friends and going to parties and clubs.
Friday night around 2030 one of my friends asked me if I wanted to go and hang out at a friends house I did my best at asking my mother if I could and she let me, little did I know this party was going to be at a house that is bigger than any house I have seen in the states. Like probably as big as Mr. Cawley house in Camden. Yea it was huge.
Also little did I know that a bunch of people were going to show up. At first when I got to the house there was only a few people there it was the friend who invited me, her friend, another friend, and the other exchange student who lives near me! Any who what started out as only five of us turned out to be about thirty or so people. Mostly good-looking girls so I was ok with it. We all listened to music and I was asked twenty or so questions about the united states, what I liked to do, what sports I did what music I listened to, stuff like that. It was fun. My mother gave me a curfew of 1am, yea that’s right 1 am. People here are crazy they love to party late at night. So yea I went home around 1am and fell asleep really quick cause I knew the next day I was going to be off to the clubs.
HA the clubs, yea that will be something that sticks with me for a long long time!!! It was so much fun. Most of the night I was completely confused but hey what is new that is how I go through life here. Well my host mother was going to a wedding that night and wanted Matias and I to stay at a friends house so I was fine with that. I went to the clubs with the sisters of Matias’s friend. They were 22 and 26 way older than me but hey the drove and they took me to a club I cant complain. Now normally if I want to go out and have fun at night I usually at the latest go out around 9pm but in Chile that is when they are having dinner so that doesn’t work well. No, they leave around 12am, and so we did, we left the house to “make our way to the club” at 1230am. Once we left the house we ended up picking up two more people needless to say you can have 6 tall people in a Toyota Yaris. It was crazy. Before we went to the club we stopped at two peoples houses to have drinks and hang out. Before Su or anyone gets upset about me drinking, I was a good exchange student and didn’t drink at the houses, I really didn’t want to get sent home in the first week I was there. And the girls that I was with all understood that and didn’t force me to drink. So after going stopping at those two houses we went to the club finally around like 130am and we stayed and danced until about 330am. In the club it was nuts it was filled with smoke from people smoking cigarettes and it was dark with lights flashing all of the time and loud music, I have never had such a bad headache in my life. So things are looking up for me I think more to come!!!
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Saturday, August 15, 2009
ok here is a long one!
Ok first day of school…. not going well…. I don’t understand a thing everyone talks so fast and I forgot how to say, "Slow down please". …. CRAP…. I am writing now in my chemistry class where we are having a test…yea that is right first day of school I have a test. The teacher even gave me the test to see if I knew anything…. yea like I would know anything I have not had chemistry in two years, its in Spanish, and oh yea I barely passed chemistry in English! So far not a good day. Where is the pool!
People although are really nice here, everyone wants to speak English with me but it kinda pisses me off cause I wanna speak Spanish but nooo I am the gringo and I don’t understand Spanish. O yea and math class this morning ha what a joke! We sat around for an hour and a half talking in English with my friends it was more or less and “study hall” than anything. So now I am sitting here with no Internet cause it is all locked up, waiting for my next class, which is Spanish like the literature class I would take in the states.
O yea coffee in school is terrible!!!! Way too hot and it is also tastes really nasty so I am sitting in class with a nasty flavor and a burnt feeling in my mouth…could life get any worse? Probably….
This whole kissing on the cheek thing is starting to be normal but when meeting girls for the first time it is really strange to practically go in for a kiss but I think I could get use to it though. It will be hard going back to hand shakes and or hugs when I return to the states.
Ok so I have no clue where I left off last time on my blog but I guess now it is good time as any to talk about my travels to Chile.
Boston:
Got there with Virginia and my parents, no big deal, got lunch, no big deal, said our goodbyes, I am going to miss them especially Virginia and all my friends it was tough saying goodbye to her cause she was the last person I would see for a long time. Anywho. Security: no big deal kinda went quick. Waiting for my plane, lonely very very lonely
Boston to Dallas = long flight!!!!
Sat next to an antsy kid with his mother tried to sleep but I couldn’t stretch my legs out. Talked to a cute red head that was off to Mexico for vacation from the cape.
Dallas, got off the plane took the train on a trip to the other concourse where my plane for Chile would be. Got to the concourse realized I left my ipod wire at home next right on the stairs so I bought a new ipod wire thing for my computer. And then searched for a place that would serve hamburgers. I found a McDonalds and a BurgerKing but there was no way my last American burger was going to be a “fast food” burger no I wanted something real. So I went to a sit down restaurant and had a real meal, half way through the meal I saw a kid wearing a Rotary jacket, I threw mine on and went to flag them down and have them eat dinner with me. Yes before you all ask it was a girl. She was from Conn so it was nice to see another New Englander. After I finished eating my 20-dollar burger, yea I know it was expensive but I didn’t care! It was my last one! After I paid we went to sit down at the terminal and wait for more exchange students, after 15 minutes there were 5 other exchange students who showed up. We exchanged pins and cards and had a few laughs before we boarded the plane.
Dallas to Santiago= long long long flights
Sat next to a crazy lady who was going to Chile to go snowboarding and o yea did I mention I was in the back of the bus!!! Yea coach seating no legroom, no privacy, no nice comfy bed to sleep in, nothing. And I had an isle seat which I cant really complain except at 4:00 in the morning when a stewardess trips over your foot or at 5:30 in the morning when you are sound asleep and another stewardess runs over your foot with one of those food carts…its like “Good Morning welcome to “crunch” Santiago” if I fly over seas again I am going to fly first class!!!!
We arrived in Santiago and did this paperwork that I was the only exchange student who had to do cause I was 18. I knew if I messed it up I would not be allowed in the country. Thankfully I didn’t. Only three of the exchange students were going on to another city and the rest were staying in Santiago yea cool no problem ill figure it out. We saw a sign that said what we thought was connecting flights and we went there and had to go through security again. Strange we thought. Yea well turns out it was connecting flights for international flights like to Brazil or Argentina. GOD so far Chile is not turning out to be good.
The three of us had to go through immigration and we saw we had to pay $151 to get into the country…. yea right no way was I going to fork over that money to just “enter” the country. Well turns out I don’t have to pay that and we went right through. Then off to customs!!! O yea!!! It wasn’t that bad though although we had to get our bags and leave the airport basically and then go back into the airport, no wonder we had such a long layover we had to do so much! We met a bunch of rotary kids and guides in front of the airport and we hung out with them for a while and moved upstairs to get our bags rechecked. Everyone was making fun of me because I had two huge bags when everyone else had like either one big bag or two smaller ones. Whatever I didn’t care.
We hung out after checking our bags for like an hour or two sharing stories of home and things like that talking about our favorite things to do or see in our home country. There were 3 Americans 3 kids from Denmark, and 3 kids from Germany. And we all spoke English it was really funny out of three countries we all choose to speak English rather than Spanish or another language we all conformed to the Americans and our English.
Santiago to Concepcion= what a flight short and what a view.
Again I sat in an isle seat again and I got to peak out the window every so often I sat next to one of the girls from Denmark named Viola. She is nice and we talked about our home countries it was fun. Once we started to descend I saw out the window water! Yea I was looking at the west coast. Funny thing is I suddenly reached for my phone to call Scotty, o yea wait I was in Chile the only thing my phone is good for is a paperweight. The West Coast looks a lot different sandy beaches small fishing homes it was kinda pretty but kinda sad cause there is a lot of poverty here. And when I looked out the other side of the plane I saw the foothills of the Andes Mountains. How beautiful!!!
In Concepcion we got our bags and we met by about 25 rotary exchange guides! Kissing and hugging and talking to us in Spanish soooooo soooooo fast it was crazy!!!! I was overwhelmed to say the least. I kept saying to myself just smile and nod, smile and nod.
Concepcion to Tome = yea that’s right one last “bus” ride to our final destination. No big deal I thought its just like a big mini van I have rode in those all of the time in Maine. HAHA o was I wrong. I see why we are not allowed to drive in Chile. THEY ARE CRAZY DRIVERS!!! I know everything is in kilometers per hour but we were going 100 k/h in a small van on a bunch of small back roads, yea to top it off there was no seat belts!!!! Everyman for themselves.
Really don’t feel like talking about the orientation so here it is in a nut shell, people who can barely speak English teaching us basically everything I learned before I left the states, and lots of free time and eating food. That is about it! O and drinking lots of coffee. (Thanks Scotty I love to drink coffee, if you had not made me start drinking coffee and got me off those nasty energy drinks I would be screwed here!)
Ok now back to school… Ok so second day of school has come and gone, yea not bad I really cant complain we didn’t really have to wear our uniforms but we did have to wear our gym clothes which are actually pretty comfy. But we had gym today and we learned the countries dance called “La Cuequa” correct me if I am wrong on the spelling. If you want more info on it just Google it, when the teacher told us what it meant it was in Spanish so naturally I didn’t understand anything.
We had English class, ok now that isn’t soo bad. But I normally end up arguing with the teacher because they are learning how to speak “British” English and it just sounds sooooo wrong to me! When I am in the class if feels like a never-ending BBC TV show.
No more to talk about the second day of school but I am getting used to not paying attention to the teacher just like ALL of the other kids in the class.
Today I am writing while the rest of the class is taking a test in history class, and the wicked brilliant teacher actually gave me the test and I just gave it back smiling and saying I don’t understand. More free time for me! Moving on.
Well this weekend’s plan of going skiing has gone WAY OUT THE WINDOW!!!!!
We are pretty much having a Nor’ Easter today (for all of you NE folks back home). We have high speed winds, rain and to top it off it is wicked cold. (Haven’t used “wicked” in a while)
I woke up at 6:40 this morning thinking o great I am late I ran out of my room to see that nothing was going outside no lights just noise. It was wind and rain on the windows. I was about to go back to bed when I heard my parents moving around so I must still have school. The entire morning I am saying to myself “just imagine if this was snow” but anywho. Yea I was dropped off in a puddle today at school, good thing I decided to wear boots today. (On Fridays we don’t have to wear our uniforms!) But yea huge huge puddle, ha and lee said I didn’t need my boots! I am glad I brought them. “Thanks bub, Big thumbs up to you ☺”
So now that I cant go skiing I am going to a club! I am nervous and excited. I am excited cause I get to go clubbing cause I am 18! But nervous cause I am going with people I don’t know. They are mati’s (host brother) best friend’s sisters who are in college, my mother actually asked me if I wanna go. She is soo cool. But anywho, I am also anxious because I don’t know what to do in the club, besides dance, it’s going to be my first time here, And I HAVE NO CLUE WHAT I AM DOING!!! But hey that is how I go through life in school I just follow my classmates here and there from room to room.
*If you are in Rotary you may wanna look away or just disregard what I wrote from here on, its not very positive it is just me venting. * I needed to get it out *
Funny thing happened today…. someone asked me what I liked about Chile…. Took me a minute and in the back of my head I said…. ha nothing. For me I am not as free as I used to be in the states, I cant drive, I cant smoke, I cant drink (not that I do in the states but it is customary here in Chile and I feel like I am being left out of something), I cant date, I cant talk to girls cause they don’t know English and I don’t know enough Spanish, my internet doesn’t work at home, my host parents don’t speak English, and the weather is terrible it cold and I wish I had brought more winter clothes but o well. Now on with the answer I gave the person who asked me, I told her I have not been here long enough to pin things down as things I like or dislike, I told her it is just different than the states and that is good. It was a safe answer I thought.
The food here is interesting, lots of chicken, turkey, pork, cheap steak, veggies and fruit, and juice, o yea and coffee too. Not a lot of junk food. I miss my burgers from Harbor Dogs near my office ☹. I miss the pizza with whole grain crust from Zaddiks, I miss sorta the coffee from French and Brawn. I have to keep telling myself to look at the positives…besides this just being an experience of a lifetime I um don’t see anything positive coming out of it… sorry guys…☹
I am stuck in a real hard place. I want to go home and go back to everything normal, but on the other hand I know I have to stay and I want to stay, but I just want some things to go back to being normal, either give me back my food or get rid of the silly rules that rotary puts on me or at least give me back driving, really that is one thing I really want back!......thinking about it now I can hear Su saying to me “Taylor suck it up, change and adapt.” And that sorta helps me move on. Ill try and figure something out, I probably just need to go to the pool. Yea that sounds good.
Ok well typing about home is not helping so I am done typing for now I am going to put this through a spell check and be done. And maybe reread it and make sure it is good for Rotary. Love you all!
See you in 9 months and 3weeks…hehehehe too soon?
Peace!
People although are really nice here, everyone wants to speak English with me but it kinda pisses me off cause I wanna speak Spanish but nooo I am the gringo and I don’t understand Spanish. O yea and math class this morning ha what a joke! We sat around for an hour and a half talking in English with my friends it was more or less and “study hall” than anything. So now I am sitting here with no Internet cause it is all locked up, waiting for my next class, which is Spanish like the literature class I would take in the states.
O yea coffee in school is terrible!!!! Way too hot and it is also tastes really nasty so I am sitting in class with a nasty flavor and a burnt feeling in my mouth…could life get any worse? Probably….
This whole kissing on the cheek thing is starting to be normal but when meeting girls for the first time it is really strange to practically go in for a kiss but I think I could get use to it though. It will be hard going back to hand shakes and or hugs when I return to the states.
Ok so I have no clue where I left off last time on my blog but I guess now it is good time as any to talk about my travels to Chile.
Boston:
Got there with Virginia and my parents, no big deal, got lunch, no big deal, said our goodbyes, I am going to miss them especially Virginia and all my friends it was tough saying goodbye to her cause she was the last person I would see for a long time. Anywho. Security: no big deal kinda went quick. Waiting for my plane, lonely very very lonely
Boston to Dallas = long flight!!!!
Sat next to an antsy kid with his mother tried to sleep but I couldn’t stretch my legs out. Talked to a cute red head that was off to Mexico for vacation from the cape.
Dallas, got off the plane took the train on a trip to the other concourse where my plane for Chile would be. Got to the concourse realized I left my ipod wire at home next right on the stairs so I bought a new ipod wire thing for my computer. And then searched for a place that would serve hamburgers. I found a McDonalds and a BurgerKing but there was no way my last American burger was going to be a “fast food” burger no I wanted something real. So I went to a sit down restaurant and had a real meal, half way through the meal I saw a kid wearing a Rotary jacket, I threw mine on and went to flag them down and have them eat dinner with me. Yes before you all ask it was a girl. She was from Conn so it was nice to see another New Englander. After I finished eating my 20-dollar burger, yea I know it was expensive but I didn’t care! It was my last one! After I paid we went to sit down at the terminal and wait for more exchange students, after 15 minutes there were 5 other exchange students who showed up. We exchanged pins and cards and had a few laughs before we boarded the plane.
Dallas to Santiago= long long long flights
Sat next to a crazy lady who was going to Chile to go snowboarding and o yea did I mention I was in the back of the bus!!! Yea coach seating no legroom, no privacy, no nice comfy bed to sleep in, nothing. And I had an isle seat which I cant really complain except at 4:00 in the morning when a stewardess trips over your foot or at 5:30 in the morning when you are sound asleep and another stewardess runs over your foot with one of those food carts…its like “Good Morning welcome to “crunch” Santiago” if I fly over seas again I am going to fly first class!!!!
We arrived in Santiago and did this paperwork that I was the only exchange student who had to do cause I was 18. I knew if I messed it up I would not be allowed in the country. Thankfully I didn’t. Only three of the exchange students were going on to another city and the rest were staying in Santiago yea cool no problem ill figure it out. We saw a sign that said what we thought was connecting flights and we went there and had to go through security again. Strange we thought. Yea well turns out it was connecting flights for international flights like to Brazil or Argentina. GOD so far Chile is not turning out to be good.
The three of us had to go through immigration and we saw we had to pay $151 to get into the country…. yea right no way was I going to fork over that money to just “enter” the country. Well turns out I don’t have to pay that and we went right through. Then off to customs!!! O yea!!! It wasn’t that bad though although we had to get our bags and leave the airport basically and then go back into the airport, no wonder we had such a long layover we had to do so much! We met a bunch of rotary kids and guides in front of the airport and we hung out with them for a while and moved upstairs to get our bags rechecked. Everyone was making fun of me because I had two huge bags when everyone else had like either one big bag or two smaller ones. Whatever I didn’t care.
We hung out after checking our bags for like an hour or two sharing stories of home and things like that talking about our favorite things to do or see in our home country. There were 3 Americans 3 kids from Denmark, and 3 kids from Germany. And we all spoke English it was really funny out of three countries we all choose to speak English rather than Spanish or another language we all conformed to the Americans and our English.
Santiago to Concepcion= what a flight short and what a view.
Again I sat in an isle seat again and I got to peak out the window every so often I sat next to one of the girls from Denmark named Viola. She is nice and we talked about our home countries it was fun. Once we started to descend I saw out the window water! Yea I was looking at the west coast. Funny thing is I suddenly reached for my phone to call Scotty, o yea wait I was in Chile the only thing my phone is good for is a paperweight. The West Coast looks a lot different sandy beaches small fishing homes it was kinda pretty but kinda sad cause there is a lot of poverty here. And when I looked out the other side of the plane I saw the foothills of the Andes Mountains. How beautiful!!!
In Concepcion we got our bags and we met by about 25 rotary exchange guides! Kissing and hugging and talking to us in Spanish soooooo soooooo fast it was crazy!!!! I was overwhelmed to say the least. I kept saying to myself just smile and nod, smile and nod.
Concepcion to Tome = yea that’s right one last “bus” ride to our final destination. No big deal I thought its just like a big mini van I have rode in those all of the time in Maine. HAHA o was I wrong. I see why we are not allowed to drive in Chile. THEY ARE CRAZY DRIVERS!!! I know everything is in kilometers per hour but we were going 100 k/h in a small van on a bunch of small back roads, yea to top it off there was no seat belts!!!! Everyman for themselves.
Really don’t feel like talking about the orientation so here it is in a nut shell, people who can barely speak English teaching us basically everything I learned before I left the states, and lots of free time and eating food. That is about it! O and drinking lots of coffee. (Thanks Scotty I love to drink coffee, if you had not made me start drinking coffee and got me off those nasty energy drinks I would be screwed here!)
Ok now back to school… Ok so second day of school has come and gone, yea not bad I really cant complain we didn’t really have to wear our uniforms but we did have to wear our gym clothes which are actually pretty comfy. But we had gym today and we learned the countries dance called “La Cuequa” correct me if I am wrong on the spelling. If you want more info on it just Google it, when the teacher told us what it meant it was in Spanish so naturally I didn’t understand anything.
We had English class, ok now that isn’t soo bad. But I normally end up arguing with the teacher because they are learning how to speak “British” English and it just sounds sooooo wrong to me! When I am in the class if feels like a never-ending BBC TV show.
No more to talk about the second day of school but I am getting used to not paying attention to the teacher just like ALL of the other kids in the class.
Today I am writing while the rest of the class is taking a test in history class, and the wicked brilliant teacher actually gave me the test and I just gave it back smiling and saying I don’t understand. More free time for me! Moving on.
Well this weekend’s plan of going skiing has gone WAY OUT THE WINDOW!!!!!
We are pretty much having a Nor’ Easter today (for all of you NE folks back home). We have high speed winds, rain and to top it off it is wicked cold. (Haven’t used “wicked” in a while)
I woke up at 6:40 this morning thinking o great I am late I ran out of my room to see that nothing was going outside no lights just noise. It was wind and rain on the windows. I was about to go back to bed when I heard my parents moving around so I must still have school. The entire morning I am saying to myself “just imagine if this was snow” but anywho. Yea I was dropped off in a puddle today at school, good thing I decided to wear boots today. (On Fridays we don’t have to wear our uniforms!) But yea huge huge puddle, ha and lee said I didn’t need my boots! I am glad I brought them. “Thanks bub, Big thumbs up to you ☺”
So now that I cant go skiing I am going to a club! I am nervous and excited. I am excited cause I get to go clubbing cause I am 18! But nervous cause I am going with people I don’t know. They are mati’s (host brother) best friend’s sisters who are in college, my mother actually asked me if I wanna go. She is soo cool. But anywho, I am also anxious because I don’t know what to do in the club, besides dance, it’s going to be my first time here, And I HAVE NO CLUE WHAT I AM DOING!!! But hey that is how I go through life in school I just follow my classmates here and there from room to room.
*If you are in Rotary you may wanna look away or just disregard what I wrote from here on, its not very positive it is just me venting. * I needed to get it out *
Funny thing happened today…. someone asked me what I liked about Chile…. Took me a minute and in the back of my head I said…. ha nothing. For me I am not as free as I used to be in the states, I cant drive, I cant smoke, I cant drink (not that I do in the states but it is customary here in Chile and I feel like I am being left out of something), I cant date, I cant talk to girls cause they don’t know English and I don’t know enough Spanish, my internet doesn’t work at home, my host parents don’t speak English, and the weather is terrible it cold and I wish I had brought more winter clothes but o well. Now on with the answer I gave the person who asked me, I told her I have not been here long enough to pin things down as things I like or dislike, I told her it is just different than the states and that is good. It was a safe answer I thought.
The food here is interesting, lots of chicken, turkey, pork, cheap steak, veggies and fruit, and juice, o yea and coffee too. Not a lot of junk food. I miss my burgers from Harbor Dogs near my office ☹. I miss the pizza with whole grain crust from Zaddiks, I miss sorta the coffee from French and Brawn. I have to keep telling myself to look at the positives…besides this just being an experience of a lifetime I um don’t see anything positive coming out of it… sorry guys…☹
I am stuck in a real hard place. I want to go home and go back to everything normal, but on the other hand I know I have to stay and I want to stay, but I just want some things to go back to being normal, either give me back my food or get rid of the silly rules that rotary puts on me or at least give me back driving, really that is one thing I really want back!......thinking about it now I can hear Su saying to me “Taylor suck it up, change and adapt.” And that sorta helps me move on. Ill try and figure something out, I probably just need to go to the pool. Yea that sounds good.
Ok well typing about home is not helping so I am done typing for now I am going to put this through a spell check and be done. And maybe reread it and make sure it is good for Rotary. Love you all!
See you in 9 months and 3weeks…hehehehe too soon?
Peace!
Sunday, August 9, 2009
CHILE!!!!
alright here it goes i am relaxed and in my bed with my host family!
.....basically....it.....Freaking.......Rocks here!!!!!
right now it is winter and it is about 40 degrees all the time, yea not bad.
everyone speaks, drives, and does stuff so fast!!!!!
i am not jetlagged or anything but you prob want to hear about my travels.
thursday morning we drove from maine at 7 am with my best friend virginia,
got to boston aroud 1130 checked in, go lunch and talked until 2ish
then i said my good bys and it was sad but i got over it cause i had to go through security and it sucked.
then i was alone on the plane to dallas but i did met a cute girl from cape cod (senior in college) o well but her and i needed to go to the same concourse in the airport so we were together for a bit and helped eachother.
once i got to the concourse i checked in and made sure i was at the right place and went to find dinner! i wanted a burger and i didnt care how much i had to pay for it
i spent 20 dollars at a sit down restuarnt for a burger fries and a coke! it was a great last american meal.
after that i went to the seats and met a bunch of american exchange students and we sat together until we got on the plane and then all but one of us sat together.
we shared stories and pins and business card. it was great fun!
we got to santiago and we were sooooo confused! needless to say a group of us really wasted alot of time going through a check point we didnt need, immigration is a pain, and so is customs, but meeting other rotary kids was awesome. we met 3 kids from germany and 3 from denmark. we all flew to concepcion together and that is where we met a lot of other rotary people taking pics of us and shouting things in spanish it was nuts.....
more to come i am off to bed love you all!!!!
.....basically....it.....Freaking.......Rocks here!!!!!
right now it is winter and it is about 40 degrees all the time, yea not bad.
everyone speaks, drives, and does stuff so fast!!!!!
i am not jetlagged or anything but you prob want to hear about my travels.
thursday morning we drove from maine at 7 am with my best friend virginia,
got to boston aroud 1130 checked in, go lunch and talked until 2ish
then i said my good bys and it was sad but i got over it cause i had to go through security and it sucked.
then i was alone on the plane to dallas but i did met a cute girl from cape cod (senior in college) o well but her and i needed to go to the same concourse in the airport so we were together for a bit and helped eachother.
once i got to the concourse i checked in and made sure i was at the right place and went to find dinner! i wanted a burger and i didnt care how much i had to pay for it
i spent 20 dollars at a sit down restuarnt for a burger fries and a coke! it was a great last american meal.
after that i went to the seats and met a bunch of american exchange students and we sat together until we got on the plane and then all but one of us sat together.
we shared stories and pins and business card. it was great fun!
we got to santiago and we were sooooo confused! needless to say a group of us really wasted alot of time going through a check point we didnt need, immigration is a pain, and so is customs, but meeting other rotary kids was awesome. we met 3 kids from germany and 3 from denmark. we all flew to concepcion together and that is where we met a lot of other rotary people taking pics of us and shouting things in spanish it was nuts.....
more to come i am off to bed love you all!!!!
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