Felicity visited us this week. We met up with her and the girls from CholChol in Temuco last Sunday. I should probably mention that Felicity is the PT Chile desk officer. She's really nice. We had a really nice day together sitting in cafes and going up the big hill in Temuco that we've always meant to go up, but never have. We got really nice views of the city from up the hill. It was a bit weird, it felt like walking up a hill in the UK. Seems that hills are the same wherever you go.
How do we get up this hill?
The view of Temuco
The copihue, the national flower of Chile
Is that a child I see in the kids play area? Oh no, it's Amina...
On Monday Felicity went to CholChol and arrived in Lautaro on Monday evening. We went for a little walk to show off the views we have of the volcanoes, then came home from a great dinner of sopiapillas. On Tuesday we took her to our school. It was interesting having her there because everyone told her things that they never tell us. Just that they're happy with us and that they think we're doing well. It was also nice because Felicity said that she thought my Spanish was really good. It's nice to hear that becuase you forget that you've improved. There's always something new to learn and when you forget something it feels like you can't talk at all. I think I'd forgotten that I used to not be able to speak Spanish at all.
We implemented our new classroom rules. Lets hope they work!
We took Felicity on a little tour of Lautaro. That basically consists of the river and the park. There's not really much here. We went to the little fish farm in the park. The only time we've ever had to pay to get in.
So yeh it was really nice to see Felicity and meet her. All the kids thought the three of us were related and seemed quite sad when we told them the next day that she wasn't coming back.
Ruty had to take this photo at such an angle that I not only look giant, Amina looks tiny.
The after-school club on Wednesday was good. The kids were more awake so they got a little more done. They're so cute. Although they still think I'm from Peru. I don't know how!
Walking home while it was raining was fine, for me. I had the umbrella. Amina had to prove how crazy/free she was and decided she didn't need one. Crazy girl walked home and got all wet and unsurprisingly got ill.
Thursday was the first day I'd been in the school without Amina. It went alright. I helped Pamela by translating a CV for most of the day. I like translating. There was a staff meeting going on while I was working in the staff room and they kept offering me sandwiches and tea (I think I made them feel bad by working through break).
I bought Amina some milk and biscuits on my way home because someone has to look after her. She told me that she's become addicted to the judge programme that Ruty watches. It's like Judge Judy but about 100 times more condescending. And there's about four programmes all called the same thing, just with different lady judges.
The municipalidad has gone crazy and decided to cut all the branches off the trees. They were still green and everything. Now they look really ugly. There are some things I just don't understand about Chile.
The weekend has passed super fast again. I taught a friend some English on Friday, followed by capoeira.
We went to a friends house on Saturday, followed by capoeira.
Today we went to the park to do some capoeira.
You'd think I'd be good at capoeira now wouldn't you.
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