I will get into more about the week soon, but i wanted to start by telling you all that my host mom´s sister died suddenly yesterday. I know that she was sick, but I don´t think anyone was really expecting her to die. My host Mom flew to Guayaquil last night so if you could hold up her and her family in your thoughts and prayers I am sure she would greatly appreciate it.
I am staying at Emily´s house for the next 3-4 days because I can´t be home alone. It was really stressful last night leaving at such short notice, and so i forgot a few, rather important things, but I think I can get to the house this weekend to pick them up.
Ok, but other than that, this was a pretty easy week. I didn´t have school on Monday, so Emily, Saaramaria and I went to Creepes and Waffles for a celebratory meal, and then we developed pictures and put them up on Sofi´s wall. Then I had Spanish class which was fun. Although, I did start feeling sick and I had to go home, but when I woke up Tuesday morning I was feeling fine.
Tuesday was just like a normal day. I got up early, went to school...yeah nothing really exciting there. Wednesday I went home before Spanish class so that was different.Thursday I hung out with Emily before her Spanish class and then I went home. So its been a pretty boring week.
Yesterday the coolest thing at school happened. So it started out normal, but when I got off the bus and walked into the courtyard there were all these banners and stuff that were not there the day before. So I was wondering what was going on, but I figured it was just like a basketball or soccer game or something that people were getting excited for. Then after bilology I walked into ¨recreo¨and it was like ¨Benalcatraz¨had gone crazy. It was so cool. Eveyone was screaming and holding up banners. A lot of people had their face painted and had taken off parts of thier uniform to reveal colered t-shirts and stuff. Everyone was screaming, and there were drums beating. Emily said that it looked/sounded like we were going to war. And thats really what it sounded like. Different groups were yelling what sounded like war chants and people kept coming up to me trying to put stickers on me or wanting to paint my hair. When I looked at it from above it looked like there had been a prison break at Benalcatraz.
I don´t know if you've figured it out yet, but these are the campains for student elections. I know, that was not my first thought either. If student elections were like this in the states I would totally vote. (As it was I didn´t even know we were having elections last year until it was voting day.) These elections are seriously a big deal. Next week we get to go watch debates, and we only have a half day on thursday because we are voting. So we vote and then we get to go home. I love it. I am going to try to bring my camera to school on Monday so I can post a picture of the craziness, because my description does not do it justice by a long shot.
Chiao,
Zoe
1 comment:
I totally would vote too if elections were like that at school. But nope we just get to look at a bunch of boring pieces of paper.
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