* I HAVE FINISHED!!!! no more school work! I completed and emailed my last essay this morning! I am no longer enslaved to poetry, italian, or this stupid computer! i am freeeeeeeeee! well until my mom and sister come on saturday, then i'll be playing tour guide and getting mommy hugs! yaaaay!!!!
*Cold is a lot less bearable when you know there's not a big chance that you're going to be warm soon. they don't have central heat or air here and the use of space heaters is not super common. so it's just damp and cold all the time and there's not usually a whole lot of relief upon going indoors, especially in my room which always seems to be 5 degrees colder than the rest of the house. or rather, I should say my old room. My host family's abuelo(grandpa) is real old and sickly and is coming to live with us for a while. But he can't do stairs, so he's taking my room, I moved into Anita's(little sister) room upstairs and she is sharing with Sandra. So I am currently surrounded by an intense amount of Jonas brothers posters and magazine cutouts, Hannah Montana memorabilia and stuffed animals. AND the keep the awesome propane heater on up here! so i get warm! yeah!
*I wrote that last bullet point a week or so ago and then saved the blog to come back to. I have since moved back into my downstairs shoebox room and abuelo took took the Jonas Bros shrine. BUT I now have a space heater that they got for abuelo that he doesn't need since he's upstairs! yeah!
*There are crap tons of injustices against and violations of the rights of indigenous people in South America. In Peru, the majority of the population is indigenous(by a pretty wide margain) and yet they have NO representation in the government. AND due to the free trade agreement with the US, the government can sell their land without notifying them, US companies can come in and extract whatever we want with out any permission and without paying taxes. It's alllll kinds of messed up. And in Chile, the indigenous population is completely marginalized and discriminated against. They are not even considered citizens technically. So if a member of a Mapuche tribe were to commit some crime like arson they would receive 10 years in prison because it is considered terrorism against the state because they are apparently not Chilean, while a regular citizen would receive only 3 years for the exact same crime.
*shooting stars never stop being exciting. looking at tiny beacons of light that are so far away that even the fastest thing(if you can call light a thing) we know of takes millions of years to get there just never gets old. stargazing never stops inspiring us to wonder, to ask, to end up having deep and beautiful conversations. climbing on sketchy structures in the dark and laying on the tin roof in order to accomplish such things also never looses its awesomeness.
*puppies are always welcome.
*as are LOLcats. yes. you read correctly. i have fallen into the trap pf the LOLcats. sure i'm 2 years late on getting sucked into one of the interweb's most obnoxious fads, but i love them all the same.
* i think i want to move to Valparaiso someday, open up a hostel, let homeless people, backpackers, families, Christians, Buddhists, Atheists, Rastas, Americans, Chileans, Israelis and whomever else stay there for whatever price they are able to pay and chill all day and cook and clean and love and talk about God. it'll be awesome. you can stay there too!
*Ever since I arrived in Chile, all I have heard about is the rain and how when it comes it's terrible and it never stops for like 5 months and it's soooo cold and blahblahblah. So every time it got a little cold or looked like it might rain, I was sure that it was going to be the end of nice lovely days forever! but then the rain never came. and never came. and never came. they say it usually starts around mid April or early May, but we had lovely weather, slightly cool, cloudy at times up until last week! and it's true that when it rains it poors. the streets become rivers and one must stand in a lake to board the bus and avoid the wake of cars as they speed through the mucky ocean...but it has yet to rain two days in a row and the days between the rain are fantastic! like today!!! as a matter of fact, it is time for me to stop living in this stupid screen and get outside!
quick things if you want to pray about something
*my brother Drew is moving to "north africa" (yeah gotta be all secret-y and whatnot) for two years on friday(yes the same day my mom is coming here). please pray that he will have a safe 25 hours of travel and the God will humble him, yet give him strength. that he will learn the language he has to learn and just be an awesome servant to the people he loves there!
*we still have no idea what we're doing after my family leaves and we have our 2ish weeks to travel. we know north. peru/bolivia area...but we're just chillin and waiting for God to give us some more hints. so pray that we will be really in tune with God and what he wants to do with us during that time. and that we won't worry about not knowing what we're doing. and that our parents won't worry about no knowing what we're doing.
ok for reals. i'm going outside. and then i'm going to bake apple pie with Catie!!! yaaaa!
ps. tell me something silly you have done lately! please??!?!
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something silly: i did a little crazy dance last night to generate body heat before changing into pajamas so the clothing transfer wouldn't be so painfully cold. actually, i do that almost every night. and the crazy pajamas dance is evolving.
i looked at anna wolf's pictures of peru yesterday... and i can hardly wait to go . we're supposed to go to Peru... I know that now.
yesterday during the transition from my part of class to my partner's part, my partner played "jump around" to get the kids up and moving around and awake. i was on my way out the door, but i was super hyper for some reason (probably because i'd only slept 3 hours), so i started dancing to it. apparently the sight of me dancing with my backpack on and clipboard in hand was really hilarious to my students, because they were cracking up. one girl almost fell out of her desk she was laughing so hard.
my silly something:
I let Molly be my spanish tutor over the summer.
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