Monday August 27, 2007 Class and Culture

Monday, August 27, 2007

I woke up early to go to campus before class so I could print off my papers and finish my education assignment. It was a hassle, but I got it all printed off. I went to my Social Doctrine class and instead of listening, I worked on my assignment. Then I went to mass, then to the dreaded Education. Luckily they didn’t collect the assignment, but we have a test on Wednesday so I actually need to learn all this stuff! They handed back the first assignment we turned in and I got a 5.1 out of 7, which was actually better then a lot of the Chileans in the class. For the pop quiz we had, one of the TA’s came and talked to me and told me that I could re-do it and turn it in on Wednesday. Part of me feels a little guilty like I’m milking the extranjera card, but the other part of me knows that I definitely have a disadvantage and should appreciate any slack they give me!

After class Christian fine combed my essay. Every once in a while he would just add a sentence or redo an entire sentence. I’d didn’t mind because since he is a history major he definitely knows what he is talking about. I printed it off with the glorious feeling of being DONE! We ate lunch, and then I ran to the metro to get to my next class in time.

In my Bible class, the professor/Jesuit talked about interpretation. I was able to follow along better then I ever have before. I even understood a joke!! (Summary: Jesus was with the woman who was going to be stoned for sleeping with a man. He said, “Whoever is without sin may cast the first stone”. All the sudden a stone came flying at the woman and Jesus looked up and said, “Mom, you don’t count.”

After class I met up with 3 other kids in the program that were all in my tutor group for our Chile Contemporeano class. We ate dinner and then went to a Contemporary Guitar concert at La Católica. Gabriel, our tutor from our Chile Contemporeano class, is a composer and they performed one of his guitar/flute dos. It was incredible and honestly my favorite duo of all they played. Gabriel was thrilled to see us and I think he was honored that we came. (Plus it doesn’t hurt that he is the one grading our essays, so I think I got some bonus points!)

I walked home from the concert and when I got there Miguel was watching TV. He jumped up and yelled, “Finally you got here!” I didn’t know why he was at the apartment but he explained to me that his parents had a meeting at his school and that his abuelita was watching him. We hung out and he helped me write an email in Spanish to Trevor. He told me some jokes to write and he definitely thought they were much funnier than I did. When his parents, Rino and Evan, finally got back around 11:15, we had once. Olga made pan queques, or crepes with honey and with manjar (like dulce de leche). They left around 11:45, with poor exhausted Miguel asking to stay longer. I told him we would see each other soon and that I want to go to one of his soccer games.

I set to work and was hoping to study for my Education test, but instead took care of odds and ends. I always seem to be working (and actually being productive), but never get anything done! However, the one success I had was to finally figure out a way for you all to see my pictures. I uploaded them onto Snapfish and you can click on the link to see them. You do have to sign in, but Trevor did it and told me it was super easy. The pictures are somewhat out of chronological order, but I’m working on that. Most of them have an explanation and a date to help you out a little. Let me know if you have any trouble with the link.

http://www1.snapfish.com/thumbnailshare/AlbumID=170168552/a=103158733_103158733/t_=103158733