A Semester in Santiago de Chile: July 2014

School is OVER!

I’ve had school for the last 18 weeks and now it’s over! HOW WEIRD!! Yes I’m happy, but at the same time I’m really sad! I’ve really gotten to love my class here and it’s hard to just leave them again!

Let me tell you about my last week: Tuesday was ‘Día verde’, ‘green day’ we did lots of very random things about environmental energy and stuff like that. It was pretty cool! My group built the surrounding of a little train. It was supposed to work with solar energy, but because there wasn’t any sun we ended up just plugging it in… : ) We also watched the Switzerland – Argentina soccer game and then whole school was suffering!

On Wednesday we had a goodbye breakfast with Jimenaz (the person in charge of us exchange students), it was really nice! At night we also had our last official gymnastics practice. Lea came along as well and at the end we took some pictures with Myia, our coach.

Thursday at lunchtime we went to eat at an Italian restaurant with Paloma, the exchange student Spanish teacher. It was really nice as well! Later Lea, Cathy and I went to the Condi one last time to celebrate us being in Chile for 20 weeks and just to eat some yummy cakes and drink some delicious hot chocolates again.

On Friday we only had school until 1pm, all in all we watched two hours of a movie in German. Then had breakfast, afterwards took some pictures and said goodbye to Paloma and then ate some more. I had a hard time saying goodbye to the kids in my class. I’m really going to miss all of them!!

But it looks like I will get to see at least some of them again in the second week of the holidays.

Yesterday I went to the cinema with my familia, we saw ‘la fortaleza’, it was pretty good!

On Tuesday I leave to spend a week in the Atacama Desert, I’m pretty excited I think it will be great fun! I get back Monday night, so don’t expect me to post something before Tuesday! : )

The reality that I’m not going to be in school for six weeks is finally starting to sink in, but I can’t get the fact that I’ll be in Atacama in a week and in the US in two into my head! That would mean leaving Chile! But I feel like I just got here – so why would I be leaving already!?