Man keeping up with weekly blogs is a lot harder than I thought. This week had it's ups and downs as does any week I suppose. The first thing worth mentioning happened on Tuesday. Palmer, our professor, told us we would be going somewhere to talk to university students who wanted to practice their English. Wrong. "El Oasis" is actually was a youth group type place with a lot of students from Georgia Tech who were studying abroad. There were also a number of Chileans too. There was singing, a Nooma video, followed by small group discussions (in Spanish). For me I could understand the main points of the discussion, but I felt limited by my Spanish and when I wanted to say something and contribute, I was just silent and nodded my head.
Friday was quite the adventure. First a little after 9am there was another earthquake. I've already felt more earthquakes here in a month, than I have at home my whole life. Then while I was waiting for the group at the lighthouse that morning, I saw a fight. There was a larger man that punched a woman in the face. It was horrible. She kept throwing rocks/dirt at him while a bunch of Chileans just stood around (from what I could tell.) There was also a skinner man involved, though I'm not quite sure how.
On Friday we went to the Chilean equivilent of our White House except there president doesn't live there anymore. The place is called La Moneda because they used to mint money there. It was pretty cool though I wish we could have seen a bit more. After that we went underneath La Moneda for an ancient China exhibit with the terracotta warriors.
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So a week later we went to Fantasilandia. I did some crazy roller coasters (I normally wimp out) because I figured (a) you're only in a Chilean theme park once and (b) you only live once! This trip has made me more adventurous and grateful/appreciative I think. This weekend was pretty boring... I did go to a new church though. That was fun.
I also recently made contact with a nearby Chilean Montessori school! I'll be volunteering there once their school starts up on the first of March. Hopefully I'll also have some other opportunities to visit other schools and maybe even an orphanage.
On a side note, the Vina del Mar 2010 festival starts tonight woo!
I wonder if many people read this...I trust no one worried about me still being alive or wondered why I wasn't posting/writing any blogs.
Any questions? Please ask! (It'll let me know people are reading giving me a reason to write and something to write about!)
I'm reading! It sounds like you're having a lot of adventures...some good and some, well at the very least interesting! Keep blogging so I can continue reading about you and know specifically how to pray! I bet you're better at Spanish than you give yourself credit for...at least we both can agree that you're better than Miss Moriah! ;) I'm glad you are allowing yourself to try new things and being brave! Just be safe! (I had to say that). I miss you and love you, Lanelle
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