News

First, the bad: my host dad broke his ankle! Playing soccer.  He's ok but they will operate on it on Wednesday to set everything straight.  He's been a great sport about it though!  Quite admirable.

Also we have new volunteers in Angol!  They got here last weekend, so we met up with them to introduce ourselves and then did a volunteer cookout together on Friday.  I learned the cueca!  It's the traditional Chilean dance that's very popular here in the South, and the idea is that the man and woman imitate mating chickens.  We had a group lesson at our cookout because one of the volunteers' host parents used to win awards in cueca competitions! Very fun.  I have a ways to go until I'm a convincing mating chicken, but at least I know what I am supposed to do.

Also I made a brilliant purchase: the P.E. uniform that all the kids at my school have to wear. I know what you're thinking, but you're wrong--it's awesome.  It's a super comfy track jacket in the school colors, with the name on the back.  I don't know if I can wear it out of the house but I'm sure as hell wearing it all the time in the house. 

This week there's a English teachers' network meeting, and my school is hosting it so I have to do an activity for everybody that they can then use in their classes. I've been dreading planning it, and have been procrastinating for several days.  Thank you, blog post, for eating up some extra time for me.