Colegio, Carrete, que mas!!

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Well this week has been an interesting week to say the least. I ¨started¨ school and ¨finiished¨ school all in the same week. Let me explain. So tuesday I offically started school, because monday was a holiday. Maria Montessori is the name of the school, and it has to be the smallest school that i have ever gone to [ well, not the smallest mom, but i do think that little flower was just a little bit bigger] Anyway, i think in total, grades 1-12, there are only about 150 kids at the most. In my grade, quarto medio, which is the equivalent of 12th grade, there are only 13 kids including me. Super small!!! It´s a private school, so yes, i do have to wear a uniform, grey skirt or pants, red and grey polo shirt and black dress shoes. Pretty snazzy if I do say so myself.

Here it´s the teachers who change classrooms, not the students, which I think is pretty cool. And they have 13 different classes that everyone in all grades take, only in different degrees of dificultly. The kids in my class are all very nice, which leads me to my next story...

My first party in Chile!!!
So saturday night i went to my first carrete, which is chilean slang for fiesta. It comes from the verb carretear, which means to party. I left with 3 other people from my class, luis, fransisca, and paulina, at about 11pm, which is pretty early by chilean standards. So then we drove for about 30 min. to the town of rinconada, the town didrectly to the west of los andes, to another girl from my school, Connie´s house. BTW, if you google hacienda rinconada, you´ll see that it´s all fields and horses, so it would only make sense that the party was in a barn. This was pretty cool, all except for the fact that it was about 20 something degreese outside, and we only had one space heater. But it was still fun, we danced, listened to music, all the regular party stuff. It was over at 3am, which again, is still pretty early by chilean standards.


Que mas... oh yeah for rae, the food.
Breakfast [desayuno]- usually is fruit and coffee or tea or calientitos, which are little ham and cheese sandwitches that have been warmed up.

lunch [almuerzo] the biggest meal of the day. usually consists of some type of meat [today it was chicken] bread, salads, and again, tea or coffee.

Once- tea or coffee and bread with butter, jelly, cheese, or whatever. usually served around 5 ish

dinner [comida]- a smaller version of lunch.

I promise i´ll take pictures of the food and stuff for you rae. We don´t really eat alot of typical chilean food, for example, yesterday we had chinese take-out, and the day before, we had arabic take'out. but it´s all really good.


Well that´s all for now, i´ll post more if i remember anything.

xau!