Blogs from Atacama, Chile, South America - page 20

There was a national holiday to celebrate the teachers, so the day before we had a bunch of performances for the Profes... including a humor show where we immitated several of them. I went as the English teacher, and it went pretty well. unfortunately I dont have many pictures, but hopefully at some point I can get some from one of the people who were taking lots. I was pretty nervous going up in front of everyone, especially because I had only managed to go through my lines without laughing at Seba once during practise. Seba did a WONDERFUL job, he was imitating Rupertina, a really goofy crossdressing tv character who was the "new student" in the skit. He does really incredible immitations so he also played a few other teachers, and he was absolutely hilarious ... read more

Last friday there was a school dance sort of thing to raise money for something the teachers are doing... dances here are fairly similar to the ones back home... except that they usually last until about 2 am.... and theres a lot more actual dancing. Anyway I didn´t really take many pictures at the dance, so the ones i put up are of before the dance... when my friend Kim came over to get ready and we straightened my hair! It was REALLY strange seeing and feeling my hair without curls.... quite a lot of fun though. I think the most fun though was seeing peoples reactions- Mamá was especially shocked and sort of jumped back and had eyes the size of saucers when she saw me! There are also some pictures of last week, making ... read more

We had a surprise birthday party for Vale at Bethos house!... read more

-We had a little birthday party for my curso´s advisor, Profe Miriam... Shes the biology teacher and shes really a great teacher. Profe Miriam is very animated while she speaks which makes class a bit more interesting and also shes just really friendly and warm. Her sister is an english teacher so she knows a little bit of english and likes to through in the occational word or phrase for me in the lessons. The party was fun despite there being lots of balloons and some people popping them (which most of you probably know i really don´t enjoy). -Out with the girls on friday night! I invited Gina, the new gringa at school from Rotary exchange along with us and it was a lot of fun! It was actually kind of cool for me because ... read more

Just a few random pictures that I like, some more of the puppies (they´re WALKING now!).... aaaaaaaaand Chicha the miniature chinese hampster! ... read more