My uniform and my new shoes!!!!!

**** oh and by the way for future reference i am too lazy to proof read my writing soo if u dont understand it than...make an educated guess as to what i was trying to say.... hahah thanks*****

well lets see.... today is saturday... and my host mother, father and I went into the center of talca to buy a present for one of their daughter's friends... who turned 18 today... and i also bought a pair of shoes there... pretty sweet... but the other pic i posted is of me before my first day of school!!! definitely really comfy and i dont mind wearing it at all!!! sooo everything is still going really well... i cant believe i have been in chile for almost a week!!!! crazy... i have met sooooo many people that wanna hang out... soooo thats good... 

i wanted to talk a little bit about my classes and how school is a little different here than it is in the states....sooo first of all.. i go to school on monday from 8-1 on tuesday thru thursday i go to school from 8-1 and then from 2-4:30... and then on friday i go to school only from 8-1.... its pretty different... but i like it.... its makes the day go by faster when i have that hour in between my classes to hang out.... during that hour... some kids go home to their houses but others stay at school and eat lunch there... for me... i go home and my host mother makes me lunch and then brings me back to school.....some of the classes that i am taking include.... english (my favorite haha), language arts (which is pretty much spanish grammar and sentence structure), i also have gym, physics, chemistry, history and math.... but i havent had my math class yet... i think i have it on tuesday...... my classes are an hour and a half long with a 15 minute break in between them..... i think thats pretty much it for now...thanks for checkin my blog out... and i deff post more pictures of my school and my friends probably the beginning of next week!!!!!

well what can i say... this is a pic of me before my first day of school!!! my uniform consists of sweat pants and a polo and a sweater... its really comfy....

MY NEW SHOES!!!

MAS FOTOS!!!!!!

this is a pic of the sides of the streets... u can see that they are pretty dirty...

this is my front yard... its pretty nice... lots of plants and trees

these are some flowers next to the walkway in my front yard

license plate

there are bars that are on all of the windows in my house... my house is safe but down the road a little its not as safe.. or at least that what i think my host mom was trying to tell me haha

here is another pic of the gate.. in front of my house... 

my front yard... pretty 

this is our front door... its kinda weird that the door knob isnt all the way to the left... its kinda in the middle.. kinda hard to get used to... but its just a knob it doesnt turn or anything...

 this is my cellphone!!

this is what the outlets look like here

this is the kitchen... pretty small but its nice

living room

dining room

peace out!!!! thanks for checkin it out!!!

more PICS!!!!! slash crazy times in chile.... haha

Soooo..... everything is going awesome here... i am having the time of my life... i totally thot i would want to come home.... but i deff want to soak up everything i can... i know ten months is a long time but in the grand scheme of things its really not that long.... but my spanish is coming back sooo quickly and i am able to understand people around here much easier... its crazy cuz i have only been here for like 3 days!!! ne ways... i am gunna publish another post with just pictures sooo yea enjoy!!

this is a pic of a little girl i saw at the park... i was walkin with my host dad he told the girl not to move soo i could take a picture... it was kinda funny because i had know idea what he was doing until i heard him say "un foto" ....good times

this is mi casa!!!!! (my house) its really nice... and everybody has one of those gates in fromt of there house... for security reasons.... i think...

this is my host dad!!!! he is really nice and like to collect antique cameras... which is what is around his neck

this is a pic of their pool in the back yard... its too cold rite now to go swimming here rite now but maybe in a couple months....

these are my family's cars... i havent seen them use the truck we just use the jeep to get around... pretty nice... compared to some of the other cars i have seen around here haha

my first day in chile!!!!!

I APOLOGIZE IN ADVANCE FOR ANY TYPOS BECAUSE I AM TOO TIRED RITE NOW TO PROOF READ THIS POST BUT ANY WAYS.... ENJOY!!!!

this is a river in talca and there are horses in the riverbanks just chilling... deff really different but they are not rabid or anything but i think my host parents were trying to explain to me that they are just stray....

here are those horses on the side of the riverbanks

this is a pic of the road in front of my house... it seems like here everything is disorganized and people just drive crazy and have no idea what they are doin.. oh and btw the roads are really dirty... u cant really c in this pic but yea...

this is a pic of a hair salon... but the difference is that here in chile in front of almost every house or small building u see there is a gate or some form of barricade to keep robbers away i guess... its very different.... oh and no clue about the blueness or underlineness lol

this is a pic of another common or park that we walked to and u can c that a stray dog is just chillin on the grass sleeping...it is very normal to dogs like this all over... including in the road! 

this is my bed and i have no idea why this writing is underlined and blue... but thats kewl i guess

this is the floor that i keep slipping on!!! sry for those of u who dont know what im talking about but... the floors are really slippery for some reason haha

this was the sign that my family was holding when i met them in the airport

this is a picture of some plants across the street from my house... the stairs next to the plants lead to a sidewalk on the side of the road and this morning Alan and I went to the store to get some Coke and we went up those stairs... haha what a great story lol oh and btw... they drink coke down here like its going outta style....

this is a pic of my host mother and me at a park type thing.... all the way to the left is a black spec which is really a horse.. yea they pretty much just roam around everywhere... pretty different...

more Andes!!!!  they are sooo pretty and i cant wait to go snowboarding!! woo hooo

these are the Andes!!!! they are intense and very pretty

sorry that u have to tilt ur head.... but the women in the red is my mom's mom and this is my abuelita's (grandma's) house

I have no idea what this says... or what it means.. but i thought it was sooo cool and pretty

This was my first veiw of the Andes from the plane... they are amazing... some of them have snow on them but this patch that i happen to take a picture of did not have snow on them.... but this was basically my first view of chile....

my first day in chile...lets just say.... i will never forget it! our plane was an hour late to begin with because there was too much fog... sooo we circled around the airport for an hour or sooooo.... during this whole time the captian kept saying well... if the fog doesnt lift we may have to land in an alternative airport and all of us rotary kids were freaking out because we would not have our luggage and our families would be at a different airport.... to put a long story short everything worked out fine and we landed in the right airport... only we were an hour late.... we got our luggage and met our host families they were waiting in the window and my family had a sign that said "WELCOME ELAINA!!!" as soon as we looked up all the parents started waving and jumping up and down it was pretty nice and made me feel at home... kinda.....haha the rest of the day we went to my host family's relatives on our way back to Talca... there is such a bad stereotype about americans because they would not stop feeding me and i have never been that full in my entire life!!! but it was fun meeting all the people.. even tho i had no idea what any of them were saying... 

that was yesterday... so today i woke up at about 9:30 and took a shower... which was pretty much the same as in the USA... then i went with Alan to get some water and Coke from the store... which was kinda cool because it was my first time walking around the city since i had been here... i tried to pay attention to how he got there so i could walk back there by myself but i soon forgot and also later on in the day i was informed that i was not really allowed to walk around by myself.. not because of Rotary rules or anything but because it was not safe...later in the day we went to the center of the city and walked around and i saw the vendors on the sides of the streets and we went into a store that was similar to target.. it had clothes, furniture, dishes, shoes, computers, and a ton of other stuff... then we went to the grocery store and bought some stuff... my host father was trying to explain to me how much things cost and it was kinda hard to understand because they use the metric system but i got an idea of how much things cost and for seven apples in only costs about 1 US dollar... which is really cheap soo that was kinda neat.... then we came home and tonite... friends of Danae.. my host family's daughter came over and we talked with them for a while... and now i am ready for bed!!! it is 12:45... sooo i guess thats all for now

thanks for checkin it out!!!

peace