Chile!!!!

Sorry for the delay in posting but i had to wait to get internet

I will just sum it up for you and if you have questions then just ask

Traveling was a pain in the butt.

i am the only american that went on this exchange and i was pretty much alone for the whole day. Then i arrived and orientation began with a two hour bus ride to the city of Olmue and it seemed to take forever.

The next day was more orientation and it was very interesting to meet everyone. There were 22 germans on this exchange.

The next day was Friday and sort of a fun day. We went around the town and rode horses and had a party or dance kind of. it was really fun

on saturday we returned to Santiago to get busses to the places we would be in or meet our family. in my case i had a five hour bus ride but there were two other girls on the bus with me

in total there are four girls in Ovalle three who are going to the same school but not the same year.

I graduate here. En Quarto Medio. Senior Year.

So I graduate twice.

that should be interesting.

Yesterday was my first official day with my family and we went to the beach town of La Serena. The ocean is so beautiful. You look one way and see ocean the other and see mountains.

Today i bought a cell phone and my school uniform.

Tomorrow I start school.

I am soooooooo nervous.

Oh I almost forgot

pisco mango is very good

my mom made one for me when i arrived on saturday night.

Thats about all of it though.

besides the cold.

its about 54 right now.

leave me a comment or send me an email.

i would love to hear from you.

Last day in America (sort-of)

So the kids (and the teachers) at SPARKS threw me a party...
They had some good food
Taco Joe Dip
Watermellon Jello
Extreme hot sauce
Toffee Moca Creme Tort.
I don't think I'll have much room left for lunch.
Last minute packing to do tonight but otherwise that is done.
I'll probably post from Chicago when I get there and possibly Miami too. I have layovers in both places.
I'm going to get some coloring pages for the flights despite the other stuff I packed.
I'll be at Detroit Metro early tomorrow morning and then the real adventure begins...
chao for now...

In Chicago

I'm in Chicago...
well... okay we were in chicago.
yesterday....
that was scary. I'm really scared about Santiago now because it's at least twice the size of Chicago.
Uncle Scot found out some more information about my Family in Chile!!!
I'm so excited to meet them.
The dad was an exchange student to America and now owns the hotel and a farm in Ovalle. The family has three houses!
One in Ovalle, one on a beach...
and an appartment in Santiago.
If that's not exciting news I don't know what is.
More later...

Viva Ovalle!

I found out my host family information finally!!!
I will be staying in Ovalle, Chile (see above map) it's northwest of Santiago.
with a mom dad and two younger siblings.
Packing will be so much easier now that I know what kind of weather to pack for. you have no idea what a pain it was to not know and try to pack.
Anyway...
I'm so excited!
Seven days left.

After the Party...

So my party wasn't that great.

I had my friends come and I'm glad but I wish that I could have seen more people here. I'm really depressed today because I won't see my friends for a long time.
I had fun last night.
Don't get that twisted because it was fun.
I'm just really going to miss all of you so much that I can't think of anything else at the moment.

Mom, dad, Zac and Zeke bought me a necklace.
It has a skeleton key pendant on it... the key to the world...
I cried.

The boys went to camp today...
just me mom and dad now.
usually this would be a cause for celebration but right now I don't have enough time left to celebrate.
I started packing already!!!
I don't know what I'm going to do.

Chicago on Thursday...
Zeke's birthday on Friday...
Then home to finish packing...
work on Monday the 20th and then leaving on the 21st.
That's the basic schedual I'm on right now.

I enjoyed talking to Grandpa Doug last night. Even though it was short I was still glad to hear from you.
Thanks to all my friends who came to see me one last time before I go.
I'm going to miss ya'll so much!!!!!

Kind- of better news...

Hey all!
Hope everything is going well for you as things have started to (finally) come together.
We now know that we will be in Chicago for Zeke's birthday and that there are three people (including me) from America going to Chile.

I went to a Clare Rotary Club meeting today to try to get funding as things are starting to come closer and closer together. I have to say a big THANK YOU to Aunt Nat for sending more money even though we weren't expecting it. Trust me... it helps emensly.

The funny thing about this is that right before I went to the meeting I had to be in a SPARKS eating contest. I had to eat various objects with my hands behind my back to get points for the team(s) I represented.

On Tuesday (yesterday) I won tickets to a play on accident...
I called in to request a song and they said that I had won tickets so now I will be attending Liberating Harriet a play written and directed by the professor of English at CMU, on Friday.
I'm taking my friend Cassi as mom could not go and I haven't seen her in like FOREVER.

On Saturday, I'm having my going away party. I'm hoping to have many people coming but you never know how your party is going to turn out until the day of. Esspecially when you didn't really send invitations and just had your friends spread the word. It should be interesting to see who comes and I'm hoping that my cousins will come.

Alex, if you're reading this...
tell Carmen to kidnap Anne
and shove your brother in a car and get your butts up here...
just kidding.
but I would still love it if you could make it.

Any of you people who are reading this are welcome too.

Saturday @ 4
my place.

Failure

*sigh*
I'm not doing so hot on this chemistry stuff.
I just failed 3 out of the seven tests I need to retake and I don't think I want to do any more today.
*sigh*
I just figured that I would post something while I was online...
sitting in my car outside the library with my french vanilla cappacino (however you spell it)

Grandma mom and I are heading to a movie later so I'm going to head home in a minute but I wanted to say that it's a beautiful day out.
cold and cloudy...
sarcasm.
I wish the sun would come out.

Fireworks tomorrow!
I can't wait to read Byron Sheally and Keats in the back of our truck while waiting for the fireworks show.
There was a really good show last year so I hope they didn't scrimp on this year's show.

For those of you who may have been reading my Time Lords story....
That was accidentally deleted from my flash drive to I have to start from scratch as far as typing it. Luckily it was on paper first.
Please bare with me for a little bit. I'm really busy at the moment.

That's all I have time for maybe I'll post again next week...
if I have time.

Happy 4th of July!

Hey all!
I just wanted to leave this little note to say Happy 4th!
I know we wanted to come down to Ohio for the weekend but Grandma and Grandpa ended up surprising me and coming here instead.
We'll see the fireworks on Saturday night and I'm sure it will be fun. Even if daddy can't be there with us.
Can you say triple time?
Yeah he'll have overtime and holiday pay. We're very proud of him.
Just don't tell him that.
Just kidding.

Love you lots Daddy.

Love you guys too. Family esspecially.
Hope your weekend is amazing!