Our Crazy Country

Hey everyone.

The rain seems to have passed. At least we get no more spontaneous rain storms and the sun has returned. Huzzah! Do I have to answer the doorbell....? Ah no, someone else is in the house. Usually I run down and Ruth gets there just before me. She's magic I swear. In Chile any house with decent security has a gate that has an electrical lock. You have to ring from outside and wait to be let in. Duh same with any doorbell. One time I opened the gate for Amina but not the house door so she was trapped in the garden. :L

I tried to make chocolate pudding yesterday. Sadly not having scales makes everything slightly more difficult. Also they don't have self-raising flour here. We had to buy flour and yeast and guess how much of each went in. I think I added too much water at the end because it looked like it had been flooded. It ended up as a soggy sponge floating in brown, sugar water. Ruth still seemed to think it was nice but I'm not so sure. She may have thought that because we sprinkled extra sugar on top of hers (we hadn't put in enough sugar). Chileans don't like puddings that aren't sweet.

Not the best thing I've ever cooked

The major bad thing that's happened to me in that my Kindle broke! The screen is dead. Now I have drastically less books. It led me to making a Christmas banner for our room. I don't know what I'm going to do when travelling in the summer. What will I read?

Merry Christmas

I had never thought about how difficult and confusing Britain is as a country. Everyone thinks the Union Flag is the flag of England and I'm like no, it's the flag of the United Kingdom. Then I have to explain how Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland are all part of the UK together. However things get complicated when you factor in that Scotland has it's own first minister. When asked if he was the Prime Minsiter I had to explain how Scotland's Prime Minister is the same as England's because we are joined with them. But then I have to explain what importance the Scottish first minister does have. I ended up saying that he is kind of like the alcalde (mayor) of the country.
Then we get onto the royal family. Trying to explain that people have to have royal blood to take the throne (then explaining what royal blood is) is complicated. Then explaining that now the Duchess of Cambridge's baby will be an heir no matter what sex it is. But then you get asked why the Queen is the Queen if it's only supposed to be males. So difficult. Why does our country have to be so complicated?!

I've just started the re-applying to university process. Hopefully my year head will email me back soon about my personal statement! I've only emailed him about five times about it.

I'm going to go read in the sun now.
Chao!