Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Wacky waving inflatable arm flailing tube..girls?

So I kinda wanted to add this to my last post but I couldn't figure out how..
So my school (colegio) is super laid back..most of the time..when my friends Roy and Christian had a track meet a group of us were able to just take a taxi during the beginning of school and spent the rest of the day at the stadium.
So I found it hilarious how all these students who competed are supposed to be athletes, right?
I mean that's how usually being a succesful runner works?
I know how that is, after the intense running that I do...
ok so it's from my bedroom to the fridge...but I digress.
So anywho, we're watching the girls' 1200 meter run and when they finish ALL of them collapsed AT the finish line..no post jog to cool down or anything; they just fall on the track or the grass nearby. Now not only do they lay there but their "trainers" rush onto the field and try to pick these girls up for support and these girls literally just flail in their arms; like some sort of possessing force was the catalyst to their long distance sprinting and then after 1200m it exited their bodies leaving them in a heap on the track!
It reminded me of some sort of excorcism as the girls just acted like total zombies as their coaches did what they could to hold them up while another girl sat down ON the track and vomited..right there!
ON THE TRACK!

I was just waiting for the one lying down stretching out a cramp, to just start levitating in mid-air or crab-crawling backwards for a lap like in that movie!

Thursday, September 17, 2009

Is this a tentacle?

So let us update. Dont really need to but what the heck =) So I finall bought a cell phone today. I was sick of my host family telling me "Kati its not necessary because you can¨t understand anything anyways and you dont go out much" (yeah becuase they never take me anywhere) haha sooo Lucas and his host mom, Rosa (quien tiene huevos!! lol inside jokes..) took me out today and we bought one (Hallelujah!)

Just have to keep it out of reach of my host parents´ grandson. He is four years old and he always manages to get into my room and get ahold of my iPod simply becuase HE wants what HE wants NOW. The type of child to whom Willy Wonka could teach a thing or two. Maybe a trip up a chocolate pipeline or carried off by oompa loompas to have berry juice squeezed out. lol Like he could win medals if spoiledness was a sport! Un niño con mucho..suerte?
Anywhoooo...

I am happy about that. *happy dance*

Oh yeah. I had food today and it had tentacles.
Que rico.

Sunday, September 13, 2009

Bon voyage y buena suerte (por los dos!)

So Friday night my initial "host brother" Jonathan left for his exchange to Canada.
Buena Suerte Jonathan! :D

Sad.
(lol understatement...I cried..like a lot)
but he's in my district near Wenatchee in Salmon Arm (well...300 miles "near") But hopefully in 9 months I'll get a chance to see him again.

His friends are pretty cool too. So far I really know Sergio and Mauricio
(whom they call, "chino" which he's Japanese not chinese..lol also with the twin Korean girls in my class everyone calls "chinas" ..they're Korean. But here it's normal to call someone Asian, doesn't matter what kind, "Chino(a)". I laugh to think about how racist Americans would think that is..hah I corrcted a guy in my class once and said, "They're Korean!" and Lucas just looks at me and laughs at my social activism..in Peru!)
Anyways, his friends showed up at the airport t say good bye to him. However..as the typical Peruvians they are, they showed up too late; so after he left. But we took pictures to prove they were there to send to him. It's coming together for me =) SO is my language. Everything is really brokenfor me but I understand WAY more andcan say more and they Spanish classes I get weekly help too.

Oh yeah I tried this thing called Salchipapa or something like that..it has fried potatoes, egg,cut up hot dog and its covers in ketchup and Peru mayo..holy molar it's amazing.

lol so you may be wondering why my title is bilingual^^ I miss French very much ^^ I love it and I miss studying/speaking/reading..breathing! French haha
I actually got a chance to teach a guy in my class some french. He's trying to learn so he asks me to teach him. It's just he doesn't speak any english and I speak just enough to get by haha so I have to translate everything form English to French to Spanish. Ming boggling (yes, my mind was quite boggled. It's a word. Google it.)
But so much fun. I love his Spanish to French dictionary!