One Month--mark it up

Ok, so I figured yesterday marked the first entire month I have been on my exchange in Lima, I should kind of update.

So this week I´m really sorry to say I found myself in some trouble. Let me tell you now, make sure you thouroughly know ALL the rules before you get into your designated country. I found myself in a meeting with the heads of Rotary here in Lima pleading a case to keep my exchange after a lot of trouble I got into. I never thought I would have to do something like that...especially not my first 4 weeks. I want to apologize to my club back in Wenatchee for the mistakes I made based on poor judgement. This certainly wasn´t my intention to disrespect or set a poor example as a Rotary exchange student. When and if this is fixed (I´ll find out soon what will happen) I will try and make up for the mistakes I made here. Again, I´m so sorry. I still really hope I can be the exchange student you think I can be.

Anyways I seem to be understanding more of what´s being said and knowing a little more of what to say. so it´s improving. I think I´m irritating Lucas and Mariah a bit. My spanish is very poor and they only want to speak Spanish nowadays (duuuuh!) but when they try to speak to me, it´s verrrrryyyyy difficult to understand the vocabulary and I end up speaking English. So I just try not to talk as much as I can so I don´t end up speaking English. I know how important it is and if I knew more I´d speak it but right now it´s so hard. I´m feeling kind of alone for the past week or so. I can´t talk to anyone about it because no one wants to hear english but it´s all I can do right now unless some french speaker wants to here my lament. Sometimes I find myself asking why I ever agreed to come here. And trust me..I´m not the only one wondering that about me now either.. =(

But I knew it wasn´t going to be easy and I´m sure I´m not leaving now. If I can help it. I´m going to do what I can to learn all of this even if it means flying solo in everything for a while.

Today was the 38th aniversary of my school Colegio Santa Rosa de Lima and we had a day of ¨deportes¨or sports. It was pretty fun. We all for jerseys and since I was put into the 4th secondary my jersey is that of the Barcelona soccer team. Other grades got other countries like ,Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Peru and etc..
Tomorrow is a big celebration for the school (yes, it is on a Saturday) I was asked to sing for the event and Jetze and Sonja managed to get a music professor to come in and accomapny me on the piano. The song will be Ï´m beginning to see the light¨ by Duke Ellington. He changed the key on me to make it higher and I believe it sounds really good. He seemed to like my voice with the dramatic throwing his hands up in the air saying, "Perfecto!!" after I sang my song and continuing to play other songs that I sang along to. This made me really happy =)

Mariah and I were asked by Jetze to put together a country dance (how stereotypical) to perform at the celebration tomorrow too. So us, with Lucas got a small group of about 8 of our classmates to participate and the dance is pretty cool. It´s a really fun line dance in the mix of the electric slide and the cowboy strut to the song "Good Time" by Alan Jackson haha...country songs...but everyone caught on soo fast surprisingly and it looks really good. And we also have to make a plato typico de los EEUU...so we´re making rice crispy treats...or Lucas and Mariah are; and we ALSO have to present a poster of the culture, polictics, and geography of the US too.

MUCHAS COSAS!