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The week of Fiestas Patrias Ok so this past week I didn't have school, because of fiestas patrias. So during this week, we were all celebrating Chileanity and the independence of Chile. This meant a lot of dancing and even more food. Everywhere I have been now during september, I have seen Chilean flags. Literally everywhere. On our front yard, there is also a Finnish flag, which was a super nice thing to do, even though I didn't even ask for it. The national dance of Chile is Cueca which was danced everywhere in Chile during this week. I myself am a terrible dancer so it was kinda relieving for me to find out that in my school, unlike many other chilean schools, dancing cueca is not obligated. Instead I did get to ride a mechanical bull, play musical chairs and participate in tug of war. We even came the king and queen of sack race with Pedro! That's pretty much all I did on the last day of school before the break. In the friday evening we had the first roast o...

THIS ONE IS GOING TO BE IN FINNISH. Finnish is the enemy of all the translators so take that in mind if you are reading a translated version of this and it gives you some really weird sentences. Mitä mä oikee teen tääl? Ja muuta turhaa Aattelin nyt tänne kertoo vähä et mistä mun normi viikko koostuu pääasias, koska en nyt tiiä mistä muustakaa kirjottaisin. Herään jokasena kouluaamuna 6.30, ja syön aamupalaa joka on joka aamu kupillinen pikakahvia ja pala leipää juuston kans. Ei mulla siitä oikeestaan mitää valitettavaa oo, aika jees vaan saada aikaseks syötyy jotain. :D (tunnustan täs vaihees et suomessa ei oikeestaan koskaan tullu syötyy aamusin mitään) Mul on siis koulua maanantaista torstaihin 8.00-14.30, ja perjantaina 8.00-13.45, joka on aika sama mitä mul oli suomessa. toi on kuitenki semi harvinaista et päivät loppuu jo noin aikasin, useimmissa kouluissa tunnit loppuu joskus viiden tai jopa kuuden aikaan, ja niissä on keskellä päivää lounasbreikki millon voi käydä kot...

Have I actually been here in Chile for a  month  already?  First of all, oops skipped a week with this blog thing, sorry not sorry, probably gonna skip even more in the future. My brain just simply does not work. Also there's so much more I feel like I should tell about but my brain is just overlapping right now (it has been like this for too long lol I should do something about it) so I can't really form sentences that would make sense oops. I also want to get this out as soon as I can so I'll just probably leave it here. Maybe some day we're gonna hear about everything else as well. But for now you'll gonna have to settle with this. Enjoy (or don't, I don't really know) A month?? Feels like it's been maybe like a week or something.  I never really believed it, when ex-exchange students told that a year is actually a quite short amount of time and you don't necessarily have the time to do everything you want. But now that it has been a month ...

Feelings about Chile so far How am I feeling right now ? Right now, when I'm writing this, very frustrated. I had written a lot to this but somehow I managed to delete it all and here I am, writing all of this again but you know it's fine it's not like I don't have time for it or anything. I probably also would've rephrased the whole thing again which I did not do in my previous text and I think it was kinda stiff to read. Aiming for this to be better than that lol. Enjoy Culture shock? Don't know her. If I am to believe what my afs books tell me, the fact that I am so tired all the time is because of the cultural shock we're supposed to be having. But I would probably say that for me, the cultural shock stops there. I mean yes, Chilean culture is very different to the Finnish culture and I haven't been used to saying hello with a kiss on the cheek, being stared at just because I'm blonde, being transferred everywhere by car and even having...

A week already?? All right so before we start  I've been requested (quite a few times actually) if I could write these in English so all my friends who do not speak Finnish (gotta thank cisv & afs at this point) can understand. This might actually be a good idea, after all imma gonna have to keep up my English for KSYK :D Manageable I'd say, since pretty much all the Finns I know are reading this blog can read in English as well, but I gotta warn u there's gonna be some texts in Finnish as well.  (Translations upon requests) SOOOOO first week huh? I came to San Fernando last Sunday, so it's been a week already. A week that has been very full, weird but mostly just fun. And went by very fast. School started pretty ok I'd say and unlike other exchange students I've been talking to, I went to school already on Monday . On the first day I was just very lost and confused since everyone was just staring at me (mainly because I have blonde hair but al...

Kuluneen viikon aikana .. on tapahtunu kaikkee hulluu. Maanantaista torstaihin näin vikaa kertaa vähään aikaan kavereita ja sukulaisia läksiäisten merkeissä, ja stressasin pakkaamisesta. Torstaina joskus viiden aikoihin lähettiin ajaa kohti Helsinki-Vantaan lentokenttää, jossa tunnin hyvästien jälkeen lähettiin Ilonan kans seikkailulle.  Pariisin lento oli noin puol tuntia myöhässä, mut ehittiin silti ihan hyvin seuraavallekin lennolle. Lento Pariisista Santiagoon papereiden mukaan kestäis noin 14,5h, mut tuulet oli suosiollisia tai jotain sellasta ja oltiin Santiagossa jo tuntia aikasemmin. Se ei paljoo kyllä paljoo vähemmältä tuntunu, ainakaan leikattujen polvien kanssa :D Tällä samalla lennolla oli ainakin tanskalaiset ja norjalainen, oisko unkarilainenkin ollu. Yks näistä tanskalaisista istu meiän takana lennolla ja turns out se tulee asumaan kans San Fernandossa, niinku mä ja tää norjalainen. Eksyttiin lentokentällä pari kertaa mut lopulta päästiin passintarkastukseen ...

Perhe!! Sain eilen illalla kuulla mun perheestä ekaa kertaa! AFS ei siis ole mulle mitään virallisia tietoja lähettänyt, mutta perheen vanhempi tytär laitto mulle whatsapp -viestin eilen, ja juttelin tän Catan kanssa melkein kolme tuntia. :D Perheeseen kuuluu isä Lizardo, joka on asianajaja / lakimies, äiti Cecilia, joka on jonkinnäkönen lääketieteellinen teknikko (tecnólogo médico), 17-vuotias veli Ignacio, ja 15- & 10-vuotiaat siskot Cata ja Macarena. Lemmikkejä tällä perheellä ei mun tietääkseni oo yhtäkään. Koulusta en tiedä vielä paljookaan, mutta ilmeisesti meen perheen lapsien kanssa samaan kouluun, ja todennäkösesti saatan Catan kanssa olla samalla luokalla. Tällä koululla on myös korisjoukkue, mut mulle on vielä vähän epäselvää tuunko tän vuoden aikana sitä pelaamaan :D Perhe asuu  San Fernandossa, joka on Santiagosta etelään, noin puolentoista tunnin ajomatkan päässä. San Fernando sijaitsee O'Higginsin alueella (region) Colchaguan provinssissa ja...