so i just thought i would write a fun post...stuff thats happened to me that i can look back and laugh at. good times. well some of the not so much. but its been an interesting time when i look back. for those of you who know me really well, you can understand how of course this would happen to me. haha. here ya go!
-so i came to chile planning to teach in an elementary school. i filled that out in my application and they knew i was licensed in it. well, when i met my teacher and principal when they picked me up, i was surprised to find out i was to teach high schoolers....took me a bit to get over the shock!
-i knew before hand there was a possibility of being placed alone, but i heard it was not likely. when our assignments were posted in santiago, i learned not only was i one of the few in a town alone, many other volunteers got to be in the same place! so they put the girl who could barely speak any spanish alone, while the ones who spoke quite a bit practically lived together...
-not only did i work at a high school, i worked at one that had a hard group of students. many students repeated grades, over 50 girls had kids or were pregnant, and not many were headed for university. definitely a different world, but i enjoyed it!
-i had many spiders show up either on my bed, in my closet on my shirt (i then proceeded to throw it, shirt and spider), one joined me in the shower...oh yes!
-within the first few weeks or so of being here, my co-teacher asked if i could go speak to a university class. i agreed, but was sure what i was supposed to talk about. i outlined a short speech over some differences in edu between chile and the states. when i got there i slowly realized i was supposed to teach the english class! apparently my coteacher worked there too! well that would have been good to know! so i just made up a lesson on the spot for engineering students studying english...
-so my co teacher and i saw a stray puppy on the street. i scooped her up and we decided to clean her up and my co teacher would keep her...well I would clean her up. after looking at her, i realized she had some ticks...so gross! pulled some out with pliers. then when we took her to the school and i got a student to help me bathe her, i realized she didnt just have a few ticks, she had over 100! i pulled out every one! ugh. so after she was all pretty and went home with Marcela....she was stolen from the yard the next day! seriously!
-so i was quite well for most of my time in chile. no big health issues. i was surprised that while other volunteers were getting sick with the flu or a bad cold, i was ok! well, that didnt hold out forever...i got the worse out of everyone i know! first came the fever, then the ear infection, then after a few days of feeling better, the cough, then the horribly painful, uncomfortable cough, plus the fever, and finally....pneumonia! NOT JOKING! let me just say how fun it is to go to a hospital in chile and NOT fully understand what the heck the doctors are saying! my friend recently topped me by getting salamanilla and then intenstinal parasites!
TO BE CONTINUED....
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TO BE CONTINUED....
Sunday, November 15, 2009
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