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| Thursday, July 5th, 2007 | | 4:00 pm |
so caroline left.. i went to her house the other day to say goodbye.. i went to santiago yeasterday with fanni and met up with ana maria my host bro stole my cell back.. so now im truly disconnected from everyone.. no internet.. no cell i packed my bags this morning.. im going to have to change some money to buy some gifts.. and i have a rotary meeting tomarrow i say goodbye to my class and hopefully get my nose pierced and go have once with my ex host fam and well hopefully go out and party in the night | | Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007 | | 1:14 pm |
So here i am in the internet cafe still crabby that my computer doesnt work.. and crabby that i cant get to my fotos.. Sunday i had alot of fun.. i went to Carolines family asado thing and then in the night Lisa, Fanni, and Caroline went to a pub in san felipe.. after almost getting in a colectivo crash due to the fog (foreshadowing).. and i had french fries and a piscola.. then the owner of the pub a block over comes over to us and hands us a slip of paper for free drinks! and we had never been there because its soo expensive! so we go over there and drink margaritas and fanni bought this mm caprhia azul that was really good but turned her teeth and lips blue!! jaja they had live music there too.. and we got free food too! yum! mm then we went to scalibur for ladies night and i swear i knew EVERYONE there!! like ariel, lucho, lazo, kako, etc etc.. evrywhere i turned i knew someone!! mmm so i danced and had a good time. my host bro was there too and i spent alot of the night laughing with him.. exchange students and ex exchange students are the coolest people ever! mmm and he bought me a roncola because well im his sister.. jajaj i swear he told everyone in tht disco hasta the body guards that i was his sister!! mmm i got a ride with fanni to her house at like 6 and i got in my first car crash.. but it wasnt anything too bad soo i survived and the car survived so we get home and i have to wake up two hours later to go home.. and it didnt help that my host bros friends were calling me all night trying to find him.. GOD!! that kid has to be more careful! and i was told that i used to do stupid things.. jeesh SO TIRED!! mm then monday i went back to san felipe in the afternoon to say goodbye to jules who is going back to canada today had once there and at home cause when i got back the whole family was there and we had pizza! AND panqueques... and palta... it was a nice follow up for the brazo de reina and queque and ham and cheese i had at jules house.. jajaj im such a fatty! today i woke up at 9 and went to school for awhile to say goodbye with caroline and get money and go shopping and my class gave me presents! aww i love them! mm yeah now im going home for lunch 5 DAYS!! AHHH! | | Sunday, July 1st, 2007 | | 1:42 am |
so my sister currently is throwing a "couples party".. and they are watching perfume and being all couplly and boring... maybe if i had a partner id think differently.. but i dont sooo im drinking a nice roncola (rum and coke) and watching Youtube... hmmm this could be funner if i could invite some of my flaite friends over!! jajaj peace out guys! im really excited about the disco tomarrow! its been awhile since ive danced.. :p http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hLux7UrVIYjust watch it.. its about mmm the small mamotth.. and his adventures in.. well life.. first he wants to fly then he wants to smoke and then he wants to drink and then he wants to have sex and then he wants to get high his friends help him each time and bad things happen each time because he does each thing to an exaggerated amount.. and in the end he dies.. typical chilean song guys!! im bringing you real chilean culture here!! and it teaches you life lessons ;) So right now i feel.. well other than a little tipsy (im just kidding mom!!:P you know that i can handle three before im effected!!:p) a little bit misunderstood.. there are alot of different people.. and im not even talking about other cultures here.. im talking about personalities.. life desicions.. activities.. ways of dressing and talking.. everything that makes you different from that guy who sits next to you on the bus.. or in chemistry class.. whatever.. and throughout this year ive learned to be friends with. well alot of different people!! from all sorts of social classes and walks off life.. and well it bugs me and kinda hurts when my friends and family arnt soo open to things like that.. like i couldnt invite lucho over right now... or my host brother.. or well alot of my guy friends because well they are "different".. we are all different!! people should get rid of their complexes and just accept that!! I remember a late night i had with Clara at the second orientacion.. eating manjar and talking about life.. im not really sure what we acomplished.. but in the end i relized.. it doesnt matter if i agree with peoples disisions or not.. in the end i dont have control.. i just have to respect their disicions and let them figure it out themselves.. but at the same time.. even if i wouldnt live my life the way they do.. it doesnt mean that their way is wrong.. i think Clara knew i needed someone to talk to at that moment.. i was really confused then.. cause well.. some pretty tramatic things had happened to me.. and overall exchange does funny things to people.. and everyone at the orientacion took notice that i was, well, different.. it puts us in situations that we never thought wed be in.. and kinda changes your whole view on life.. and now at the end of my exchange i feel lost still.. but in a good way.. cause it means ive acommplished something.. i broke the mold i always thought id be in.. where am i going.. and with who am i going there with? i dont know now.. but ill find out! i learned something from Jules this year too.. he leaves on tuesday.. while he is a very social guy and super funny he said to nicole and every other exchange student that he would not miss them.. but that he liked them and would come and visit them.. and recently he went to portillo alone and said that it was best that way cause he could do what he wanted.. and didnt have to wait for anyone or have to make desicions based on what someone else wanted. Im going back to the US soon.. and yeah.. ill probally be pretty lonly for awhile, but my happiness does not need to be based on people calling me or the parties im invited to or the amount of friends i have... it has to do with me.. and what i do and who i am.. maybe sometimes its best to have just yourself sometimes.. i need to figure it out by myself.. and ill be just fine... the movie ended so i have to finish this up.. hopefully it made some sence but i understand that it has probally been a little bit weird.. or hard to understand what im talking about.. cause well i really dont know how to say what i want to say.. take care everyone.. ill see you in 8 days! :O and so goes the adventure which is life.. | | Saturday, June 30th, 2007 | | 4:28 pm |
mmm los andes is really small.. im just starting to understand how small.. my last day of school was pretty cool.. mmm we had a thing for pope day and mmm everyone signed my book.. well not everyone but my sis is going to bring it to school on tues (no school on mon!!)and i wrote on the back on all the business cards and handed them out... i still have like 200.. 300.. mm in the afternoon i saw fanni and she got her haircut and we went out to eat.. got a birthday present!! exchangers give really weird presents.. she gave me a binder and a finnish flag.. mmm and i ran into my host bro.. he was trying to steal someones carnet.. i really dont know why... but i think ill see him tomarrow at the disco!! yay! mmm then i went to ariels house with the usual people and left there at like 2 with niki ismeal and lazo to a pub.. where i had to call a taxi right away to get home.. but a guy there had just gotten back from being on exchange in the US! and roberto and tomas were there.. i swear every single time ive seen roberto hes been kinda mmm lets keep this g rated.. curao... volando.. jajaja everyone at ariels house was volando!! jeesh mm today well im at an internet cafe right now.. going to meet caroline at the mall.. and mmmm i dont know what else.. fanni and michael had invited me to viña but i didnt have permission cause my aunts taking care of me right now.. so dang.. i really wanted to party in viña before leaving.. but owell.. my life is ending.. 8 days | | Thursday, June 28th, 2007 | | 11:07 am |
mmm i had the greatest cake ever!! like chocolate and manjar yum.. but unfortuanatly not as good as a good ol sugary cake from the supermarket in the US.. I got a sweatshirt and candy for my bday.. mm yesterday i was supposed to go see lucho and give him his bday present and recieve mine etc etc ;) jajaja .. buuuut i fell asleep.. woke up and the phone service was dead and i didnt remember his address sooo it didnt work out... *tear* its sad when that happens and its soo close to the end and all that.. like that could have been the last time i went to his house and saw his monster dog.. damn i need a picture of that thing!! it is seriously bigger then i am!! and definitly bigger then he is!! (hes kinda short :p) today im meeting caroline for lunch.. and mybe seeing the ex host bro later.. yep that be my life.. pretty much like it is always a little bit boring at times.. but hell i kinda like it.. too bad it ends in 10 days :S o and danna found my camera today and was looking through my fotos.. saying omg jessica you ate that! and that! and that! like 5 weird things that i ate! :@ i need to stop eating weird things!! good thing danna has my back! oh i have some more horrible pics of me in school.. tomarrow is my last day of school!! :O!!! | | Tuesday, June 26th, 2007 | | 7:23 pm |
sooooo.. its my birthday!! yay!! mm so i had to go to school buuu!! but i was sung happy birthday like 5 times today and some of my classmates brought me cake and balloons!! jaja i love them! and the whole class sung me happy bday in english!! mm okay traditional chile tradition the bday girl has to take a bite out of the cake without using her hands.. soo with tipical chilean tradition danna smashes my whole face down on the freaking cake!! i had cream up my nose for the whole day! mm fanni came to los andes today to visit nicoles family soo we went there and talked and then we went out for some birthday drinks.. and later the family (aunts grannys etc) are coming over for once.. so yep.. thats a chilean birthday.. maybe on friday i go to the disco or soemthing to celebrate more.. | | Sunday, June 24th, 2007 | | 8:54 pm |
umm due to a string of unfortunate events i will not write anything about thursday-sunday.. just that alot happened and i met my host bro all for the three past days.. he is reallllly suuper nice.. but he went missing last night.. im sure its all going to be alright though.. and that in the end ill look back on this weekend and laugh.. maybe.. :S Two weeks and im on a plane!! AHHH!! | | Wednesday, June 20th, 2007 | | 2:17 pm |
mmm so it was raining reallllly hard this morning and was suuper cold so we didnt go to school! it wasnt a day off.. my mom just decided not to wake us up cuz if we went to school wed get sick.. so i woke up at like noon.. ate 2 hours later and am enjoying the lazy life :)! i read an interesting question the other day. Is globalization the same thing as Americanization? hmm... after being here in chile i would kinda say it is... you have no idea how big of an effect the US has on other countries until your out of the US... i mean i dont see alot on asia on the news but we have a whole tv station on news in the us.. and i dont hear alot of european music but everyday i hear people singing music from US groups.. and by god EVERYONE in the whole world knows who bush is!! the only other world leader i know is michelle bachelet (the presidenta de chile) right now my lil sis is watching forest gump on TV for gods sake!! its just interesting.. thats all.. but i can also say that not alot of people like the US... not alot of people at all.. | | Tuesday, June 19th, 2007 | | 8:25 pm |
ok.. mm school acctually was quite fun today.. i laughed alot.. im going to miss being in school and drawing random things and putting them on the board, climbing on desks to take fotos of random things or just lay down and talk with my "peeps" :p, falling asleep randomly, and getting away with having about a million holes in my uniform and wearing bright pink hobo gloves!! im in a better mood today then yesterday.. oh and if you go to camilas fotolog youll find two fotos of us! http://www.fotolog.com/kmy_mimi_Ste quiero muxo amiga!! mmm im in a better mood then yesterday (for those of you who read the post.. i was kinda bitter) thats cause i decided to go to san felipe and meet up with fanni today.. i wanted to get my piercing done.. but THE GUY STILL after a MONTH!! DOES NOT HAVE THE RIGHT PIERCING!! unless i want a nose ring.. but i think ill pass on that.. he promised me that next week hed have the stuff.. and laughed really hard when i told him the how i lost my piercing story.. jaja jeez.. im soo silly here in chile.. i think its cause i dont care what anyone thinks of me.. cuz im out of here in 2 weeks!! :O!! so they can think what they want.. mm so me and fanni went to a cafe and had some yogurt cake and i had some irish coffee.. :p!! (chileans know how to give you your bang for your buck if you know what i mean!;)!) and then got my hair cut and went shopping.. my host bro is in chile!! i hope to see him soon.. my host sis called me today but it was during my hair cut sooo i didnt answer it.. Oh and here are some fotos from the alianzas that camila sent me! i look bad in pretty much all of them.. but filo! http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c203/signaturerose/P5220155.jpgcamila, jael, and me http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c203/signaturerose/P5220157.jpgmy ass looks HUGE in this pik!! http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c203/signaturerose/P5220158.jpgwe were supposed to be praying.. but i look more like an indian dancer http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c203/signaturerose/P5220159.jpgbtw.. im not wearing my shirt in these pictures.. its a random girls shirt that i traded with that day.. mm yeah.. i just ate once and now im gonna go and wrap the present for my host bro!! see ya! | | Sunday, June 17th, 2007 | | 9:08 pm |
sooo chilean fathers days are alot like chilean mothers day.. except opposite.. and drunken i had to get up at like 8 to give the dad his presents... god i need sleep! the whole family came over and the neighbors too... ummm yeah.. after talking to my wonderful dad over messanger (I LOVE YOU DAD!!)i figured that i should probally go get some lunch.. as much as i didnt want to go out.. because well usually my host dad is drunk.. but since it was fathers day.. well you can imagine.. but chileans are such good grillers that i couldnt help not going out to get some food.. seriously i am going to miss it!! never have i had such good meat! anyways... host dad horribly drunk host uncles horribly drunk NOT GOOD!! i got hit on in front of all of my family by one of my host uncles! and since he was in his 20s it was OK with my family... jeez people give me a break!! im blond... and thats about it! i wouldnt mind soo much if it was people my age.. but its mostly people in their twenties cause to them i look like im in my twenties... when he left he gave me about a billlion kisses and a really akward hug... i had to pry him off me.. damn uncles!! anyway host dad told me about a billion times that elvis was the king about 1000 times (stupid drunks).. that the beetles were awesome and that im a damned gringa because i cant speak spanish or english.. im hoping that last part was a joke... or something.. he then hugged me for like a whole fraking minute.. i HATE drunk people hugs.. they make me feel gross.. anyways.. since everyone was already drunnk the natural thing was to drink some more.. soo in the spirit of fathers day they took out the jack daniels that my dad had given them.. and of course they made fun of my good old dads name (Ron) which happens to mean rum in spanish.. so pretty much the convo was "RUM gave you WHISKEY!!" *drunken laughs* jeez.. it was good whiskey though ;)they want more... mmmm then i noticed this strange green drink that everyone was drinking.. now i was thinking that someone had somehow smuggled in abstentine.. but then i found that camila (10 yr old host sis) and all the lil kids were drinking it soo i figured hmmm probally not.. so i drank some.. and it was this strange alcholic mint drink!! soo basically everyone was drinking down to the 5 yr olds.. and damn i wanted to try the green fairy!! :( jajaja mmmm we then had completos for once.. and i watched naria with the host cousins.. now im getting ready for bed... ex host bro comes on tuesday!! i really hope to meet him! which i think i will cause im in charge of bringing the hott foreign girls to his party.. soo im bringing fanni.. my favorite little party buddy.. oh fanni.. i remember the days when i danced better then you.. and could last longer then you.. now that ive switched families ive lost all my partying skills!! jajaja i guess it will just have to wait for the university. :p! alright! see you guys in three weeks! bye bye | | Saturday, June 16th, 2007 | | 10:32 pm |
| | Friday, June 15th, 2007 | | 7:00 pm |
mm life has been mm life.. not really much to say.. i took around my camera today and took some pretty tourist pictures (the church i used to go to.. the graffiti that danna and laura (las flaites :p) did on front of the gym we had our party at.. and i got money exchanged... mmm jules leaves in 2 weeks but is going to portillo so this is his last weekend here! hes having his party tonight at ariels.. i gotta go eat! byebye | | Wednesday, June 13th, 2007 | | 3:23 pm |
mm so monday nothing much happened... school.. my sister showed up like 3 times on cantando por un sueño! seriously.. we are getting pretty famous here in los andes... mm oh and it was Luchos birthday.. i bought him headphones.. mm tuesday= NO SCHOOL! so i headed of to San Felipe to hang out with Simon, Jules, and Fanni.. Simon leaves on saturday :( he already had his going away party and didnt invite us! (we were at panchos) we ate and then went to see a movie.. la puerto a infierno (the door to hell) it was pretty horrible.. not goibg to lie.. but it was the only movie playing (only one screen in the renovated barn movie theater in san felipe and the next nearest theater is in stgo) but it was cheap (less then 2 dollars) with cheap but good popcorn (mm sugary chilean popcorn :p).. though i guess simons seat did break during the movie.. mm today was well bad.. double chemistry!! and i was really trying to understand it too.. but it was naming the compounds!! in spanish!! come on people!! i dont know what the element is called nontheless if it should have an ico, oso, or per ico on the end!! (hehe per ico... pico :p)other then that i made a flyer for my going away party to notify people.. and oh during mass today i was dazing out like always when i hear my name! and next thing i know im being called to the front given a keychain and hugged by a nun! ahh! life.. what can i say.. and just a little reminder for all those who like to get caught up in the moment.. two little words.. BIRTH CONTROL!! the third girl in my class (like out of 35 people) is going to have a baby! i swear chilean girls (and teenagers in general) need to be educated on stuff like this.. ive seen more pregnent young girls here then anywhere else! Ariels lil sis had a baby when she was 14 for crying out loud! the girl in my class, Vale, though is doing pretty good though and not freaking out.. she wasnt planning on going to colldge anyway and her boyfriend is sticking with her.. but still its just not a good time! and ive heard alot of damn jessica ur going to miss my birthday.. or ur going to miss the concert.. but ive heard the first jessica ur going to miss my baby shower today... it kinda just seems a little out of place.. i must admit though i laughed a little when a teacher came up and asked her "Vale.. es frances?" (he was asking her if her baby was french cause she spent the summer in france! ahhh! talk about interesting questions!) | | Sunday, June 10th, 2007 | | 1:48 pm |
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mmm i feel like ranting about freedom and all that stuff but im going to control myself.. all i know is that im missing out and its suuuuuuuuper annoying.. especially when the rules only apply to me cuz my sis was allowed out last night (school night) and allowed to skip school today because she was tired of all reasons!... i wasnt even allowed to skip school for fannis birthday!! life = unfair.. but whatever im going to santiago tomarrow and returning in the afternoon hopefully going to see guxy and if not its panchos birthday! soo yeah.. thats life... me and niki, and those guys can hang out another weekend.. i suppose.. but im sick of living the same day over and over again! and my time is running out! but im leaving school in like a week it looks like.. so then i can start doing more.. hopefully im still waiting for my parents reply for next week... :S | | Thursday, June 7th, 2007 | | 10:46 pm |
mmm life as normal... all the normal weas of school... tests, jokes, etc.. i was blowing huge bubbles all day with gum.. and claudia thought that it would be fun to smash it all over my face, but instead of that happening it all got stuck on her hand!! it was absolutly hilarious.. I made it over to carolines house today to "do homework" jaja and it was nice to see her family.. eat hamburger completos.. get my hair braided around my head for the 2nd time today (danna did it for me in school too) and recieve a huge bag of palta! my host sis is over in stgo watching cantando por un sueño and sergio showed up on TV!! and camila macaya (i went to her birthday a couple months ago) was on TV for quien cambia quien (chilean version of changing spouses) because her BFs mom switched with a family in santiago.. soo yeah.. everyone here in chile is pretty famous! i was looking at some fotos today and i realized.. i miss summmer!!! seriously you guys... it is sooo cold here right now! im wearing my hobo gloves and two sweatshirts and pantis and long socks.. and im still freezing!! i really wish that i didnt lose my scarf at the disco.. o god.. the disco.. never going back!! ahhh!!! jaja alright im rambling.. see you guys in july.. oh and a girl from hawaii is coming to los andes to be an exchanger in july! yay! but with AFS.. | | Wednesday, June 6th, 2007 | | 3:22 pm |
ok nothing new really.. school has been well school.. the sophmores yesterday decided to be mimes and were giving away free flowers, balloons, etc. only i thought you had to buy them.. anyways.. these two mimes came up to me and showed me a flower.. so i said im sorry i dont have money so they started crying.. then they handed me a balloon.. i said i was sorry but i didnt have money.. they got kinda frustrated looking and the handed me a candy.. i said im sorry but no.. then they looked at each other and walked away.. later i found out that all the items were free... jajaja!! silly mimes how was i supposed to know if they didnt tell me! hee hee kinda reminded me the time matt and jules bought me and fanni a rose from a mime.. ("he talks alot for a mime" jules) hee hee.. anyways i spent all of the next class time playing with a balloon with claudia and laura.. and putting it through the wholes in my jumper and such.. ;) hee hee mm and the class has caught on to the fact that i ALWAYS forget to turn off my cell phone in class... so both caroline and danna were prank calling me all day.. and we got our class sweatshirts.. they are kinda cute.. but kinda ugly... but whatevs.. oh and my host mom wants me to learn to sow because all my clothes have holes in them... thats right parents.. when i come home you guys are taking me shopping!! im too poor too buy myself clothes right now... :( | | Monday, June 4th, 2007 | | 5:21 pm |
soo i went to kaylns going away party.. went in a bus with fanni and simon (miracle that we all ened up in the same bus considering that we all came from different places: Los Andes, San Felipe, and Llay Llay) but anyways we arrived and found kayln, Jules (who was in viña with pancho), and kaylns bf without too many problems.. and went shopping and then to kaylns dads restraunt for the party.. which was interesting and at some parts pretty boring.. rugbee girls are scary!! seriously she tried to molest simon and jules!! mm and there was also so pretty bad magic tricks.. afterwards we chilled at kaylns house until like 5 when we all randomly fell asleep.. next day we woke up at like mm 2? showered and went out to eat.. the first place we went was out of bread? so we then went to a pizza place where we had some emm interesting food and i learned not to feed stray dogs pizza.. we had ice cream and went back to kaylns for our bags me and fanni missed the bus to los andes so we had to take this micro to calera and wait there for like an hour... and then get on this crazy crowded bus.. where we had to stand.. this guy was taking up two seats so i asked if he could move over.. but he said no that he was waiting for somebody.. then.. we reached a stop he opened his window and gave all his stuff to some teeneager and then jumped out the window!! (which was pretty high up) until the kids pushed him back in and gave him back his stuff.. after that he let me sit down.. poor crazy man... when i came home my aunt and her bf were over and my mom was pretty mad at me.. but yeah.. it was interesting.. | | Friday, June 1st, 2007 | | 9:39 pm |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_Toileti found this mildly amusing pray for me that im allowed to go tomarrow!! im scarificing tonight for tomarrow.. but they are delaying on telling me if i even can.. and life has been sooo boring latly that i could use a break! |
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