It is often times hard to keep up with the pop culture from the United States, not because I don't internet in my house, but because I just don't have that much time. Most every television show is in Spanish, the news is only about whats happening in Chile, and if it is in English, it is dubbed over with really over the top voice overs. I recently checked Youtube to see was new. When I left the states a three weeks ago, Charlie Sheen was the talk of the town. I recently found out about this song called Friday. It is sang by Rebecca Black. It is horrible. The lyrics, the video and everything about it. Anyway I had no other creative way to title this blog but with some lyrics from the song. If you haven't heard the song, please go on Youtube and watch it. It is horrible yet somehow it gets stuck in your head.
Moving on..
I recently spent my frist weekend in La Serena and it was very fun. On friday, Katie, a girl from my program who also lives in La Serena but works at a different school, invited me and the other two people, Danny and Elizabeth, for a BBQ ( or asado, i think is the word). Usually we have what they call "once," which I described in my other blog as some bread and some tea. So we got to Katie's house and the madre made us an once. So we are all thinking we are just going to get some bread and tea so we all try and eat as much bread as possible. Low and behold, the padre is having all of his friends over. They in turn, bring massive amounts of onions, chicken, meat, etc. So basically we all fill up on bed thinking its going to be the only thing we are eating, but actually it was just a starter. We all sit outside and talk to each other finding more and more about their culture as well as telling them about ours. They love Danny. Danny speaks the best out of us four gringos, he can converse like a pro. They love it and they joke around a lot with him. A couple hours pass and we are about to eat. On the table is rice, chicken, potatoe salad. Its a feast. I want to eat so bad but we are all so full (minus Danny, he is the big eater of the group). We eat as much as we can and then one of the padres friends drives us all home. It was a fun night of learning and talking spanish and having a very good meal.
On Saturday, I find out that another girl from our program who lives in Ovalle, which is about an hour bus ride away, is in La Serena. Katie, Elizabeth, Shauna (Ovalle girl), and myself all go out for ice cream. We then decide to walk to the beach where we met two people from Colombia, one girl from Ecuador and one guy from Chile. They were all around our age and are living here. We all talked for a while and hopefully we can start an intercombio, where we teach them some english and they can help us with some spanish, free of charge. I scratch your back, you scratch mine ( Insert Superbad quote here). We then proceed to have dinner at this restaurant that was recommended by Lonely Planet. Shauna decided to stay the night, so my family graciously allowed her to stay here. We woke up and went to the mall and sunday market with the family. The sunday market has tons of fruits and vegtables and the mall is very nice too. All in all, we had a very fun time and got to speak a lot of spanish this weekend.
My classes started today, I am on lunch break right now. My classes are goign very well, and for the most part they are actaully pretty well behaved. The only thing missing is, I don't have any materials and I don't have a whiteboard. The ministry of Education is supposed to give me supplies but have failed to do so and my room where I teach is brand new so there is no whiteboard yet. So these first couple of weeks could be interesting.
So to conclude, it was a very fun weekend. Friday Friday, gotta get down on Friday.
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