A week of School

I have a feeling that these blog entries may get fewer and farther between as I have started to settle into a new routine. I spent Monday afternoon in bed and watched a bit of english tv with spanish subtitles. (I have discovered prison break...good show)Tuesday , I went to school In phys Ed, we are working on the traditional chilean dance. It was super cool...tho i was too tired and sick to enjoy it fully. Wednesday, I took a note dictated by a teacher and got almost all the words right!! (Weird thing to be excited about....but seriously, its hard..) Then we had english class, the teacher has asked me to talk with my classmates in english during this hour and a half....and for me it is fun. Plus, it gives them an idea of how I feel...because they don´t know how to say what they want, or what I am saying to them. In the afternoon..there was some confusion. I was supposed to go to the stadium after lunch...but understood that a bus took us from the school to the stadium....nopers. The sub-director(ie vice principal) drove me over, and I ran with some guys in my class on the super nice rubberized track for 10 laps. It was a gorgeous day, and felt good to run fastish (for being sick..it was fast). We then walked back to the school. In Punta Arenas, you don´t need hills for natural intervals on a run..the wind is just as good!! After school, the sub-director called me into her office to try some king crab, and I don´t normally like seafood, but it wasn´t that bad. As for all the talk of it being really cold....its not compared to our Canadian winters....i don´t think it has been below zero since I´ve been here...but a lot of wind. Wednesday night, I met my host father. He had been in Santiago. He is very nice, and funny. This means, however, that Johanna no longer drives me to school. There is a friend of Karen´s who lives near me and I got a ride with her both yesterday and today in the morning. Other times, I have gone in collectivos (a bus like car that is complicated to explain, but makes a lot of sense...) or else ridden with the friend´s neigbor (who also goes to the school). My parents called last night, (I told them too) because it was my dad´s birthday. It was sooo good to hear their voices and they made me feel better about little things. Today...my friends asked me if I had talked with them (noone could believe I went that long without talking with my parents) and were very excited when I had. Right now, I am researching areas of the brain, because my class is dissecting brains/heads, and I told ppl the story of passing out, and seeing as how I already am not feeling 100 % the teacher let me come in here to learn about it. She is really nice. A few of my classes here lately have been kind of free periods for me...as the class is writing tests. This morning, my math teacher was sick, and we didn´t have a sub, we just hung out in the class for an hour and half. Yeah...classes are an hour and a half and then a 15 minute break. Its not soo bad tho, cuz there is usually a lot of time given to do homework. They spend a lot of time in school, but it doesn´t seem like they have all that much to do outside of school. So..yeah, I´m working in the computer room, and there are a bunch of ppl from a different grade (i think primero...grade nine), and they asked to take a picture with me, and talk to me a fair bit....its kinda funny. Ón Sunday afternoons, a lot of people go for walks, and I think I am going to go along with that custom. The views are so gorgeous!! Newho..i should probably get back to my research of the brain...or rather translating what I have researched!