Ok...so it´s Thursday afternoon, and i technically don´t have school right now, but the internet is faster, and some of my friends are here decorating the class (more on that later), so I am updating my blog and sending out some pics. I have started walking to school in the morning, which means i lose about 15 minutes of sleep, but its my way of trying to stay away from the rotary 30.....cuz i eat a lot here!! I walk as much as I can, and run when Ihave the time. The other day whileI was walking, I was told later that the winds were actually measure at 115 km/hour. Needless to say my hair was all over the place when I got to school!! On Monday, it is the Independence Day soto speak of Chile. It is a huge deal down here!! The class es are decorated, the school is decorated, and in malls there are people doing the traditional dances. It´s pretty cool! Very patriotic. My class is putting a canadian flag in the decorations as well :) In fact, 2 of my classes this m orning, all we did was make stuff/put stuff up on the walls. Pretty fun times. The whole of tercero (gr 11) is in the independence parade of schools, so that means me as well. It was nice, cuz we practiced yesterday during biology, when I was supposed to have a test!! And with the schedule here, we don´t have that class til next week. It´s crazy, i´m not used to having a class once or twice a week. Yesterday, I had one class in the afternoon, but it was just running laps of a track for 12 minutes, counting the number done. I did 13 of a 200 metre track, not terrible considereing i didn´t have a warmup, had just eaten lunch, and not tried to run fast for a while....Then I went home to hang out with my host brother before he left for santiago today. I probably won´t see him again. At night, I ate a kind of fish casserole thing that was pretty good. Then, I watched Law and Order:SVU before heading to bed around midnight. I did not hear my alarm clock this morning, and was very lucky that my host sister woke me up at quarter after 7. Yesterday, i left my house at quarter after 7!! Aka....i had slept in....I was out of the house at 7 23 and walked quickly. About 10 minutes from school, a guy from my class was waiting with his little sister to catch a collectivo, but they walked with me (after i called him perozoso...lazy) turns out i wasn´t actually late at all because I had walked so fast!!
So, here I am at school. Since there aren´t official classes, I didn´t have to wear my uniform, but noone told me that.....there are a few others wearing it tho (the more comfy, blue windstyle pants and grey t-shirt, not attractive, but super comfy). The dance team was practising earlier. They won the national championships, so should be representing Chile in the States at an international competition, but it costs too much money, so hopefully next year. Crazy tho eh!! I watched for a bit, and they´re really good!! Well....i think that´s all for now. I don´t have real classes tomoro, fiesta in the morning til 11, then eat empanadas and an assembly, and then home!! And monday and tuesday are cancelled!! Sweet kickin i say!! ciao xoxo