Things got better!!!

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!!!