Last week one of my students let out the most atrocious fart I have smelt. We decided to hold the class outside the smell was so bad. I went back to my classroom to make sure that there wasn't actually fecal matter hiding somewhere. Kids from the next class 25 minutes later were complaining about the smell. The funniest part was when I told my co-teacher about the incident she said she would have the class's head teacher talk to the students about it. Any ideas about what the head teacher will say?
Yesterday, I shaved my mustache for rugby purposes. Since I am playing with high schoolers, our rugby coach told me I need to look more like a high schooler. I definitely prefer having facial hair. I feel I look a lot younger and less distinguished looking. Since I have shaved, my host mom keeps asking me where Paul is and if I've seen him. In typical Chilean fashion, 24 hours later, the joke has gone on for too long.
On Friday, our school competed in the second round of debates. We did a good job, though we performed better in the first round. (112 points this round compared to 138 points the last round … out of 144 … I felt the judges this round were harder). Based on the combined scores for both rounds, my school easily had the highest score. The next round is the regional competition, which is on August 31. The topic is advertisements. Since the topic is the same as the first round of debates, we aren't going to have to do too much to prepare, just review the speeches and try making them more gripping and dramatic.
I finally climbed the mountain behind my house. Two times actually, once with just my hostmom and the second time with my host mom and another volunteer, Rachel. The first time was really late in the afternoon and by the time we had gotten to the top clouds had come in preventing us from seeing anything. It was very eerie, particularly when you looked at the edge of the cliff and saw nothing but gray clouds, whether you looked down or out. Despite not being far from Antofagasta we couldn't see the city at all from the top of the mountain. The second time, we left earlier, but it still got cloudy and we didn't get the greatest view from the top. About halfway up we could see the portada in the distance.
I'm not sure I've mentioned this before but there are more public displays of affection particularly among the young people in Chile than in the United States. It largely because kids growing up live with their parents for a longer amount of time then they do in the United States (often until they are 30 or so). The current generation is known as generation kangaroo for this reason – because the kids bounce back to their parents as soon as possible. The other day I was walking back from rugby practice and I decided to walk through a park at 9:30 at night and on every bench their was a couple making out.
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hahaha. what do you win if youwin the whole debate thing?
ReplyDeleteGo to Disney World?
ReplyDeleteand by Disney World I mean Patagonia ... and I'm probably going there whether I win or lose