No School!!!!

So I had school on Monday, unfortunately. But I think they are making up for it with the fact that there are like tons of meetings for teachers this week so we haven't had very many classes. On Monday it felt like I had "demasiado" classes, but today I only had 45min of English, 45min of Chemistry, and then for geography we watched an hour and a half long movie called "La Misma Luna" or what it was called in the U.S. "Under the Same Moon".  When I saw that movie in the U.S. they had conveniently placed English subtitles on all the parts where they spoke Spanish, which was like most of the movie, here however, the subtitles were not present. I understood most of the movie, but some of the jokes and things I didn't quite get. But I really liked the movie. Maybe not quite as much as the first time I saw it, but it was still really sweet. 

La Misma Luna is basically a hollywood-esque story about a 9-year-old mexican boy illegally crossing the border to look for his mom in Los Angeles. I say Hollywood-esque because the hardships that this little boy goes through are not nearly what a real illegal immigrant would have to face. Plus, he is only 9 years old, yet somehow he is able to find a job in Tuscon by himself, well with the help of his not so friendly companion, make it from the Mexican border all the way to Los Angeles, to the exact street where his mother calls him every Sunday morning. Did I mention that this was all in less than a week? Ok, so I guess the movie is sweet, but its just not very realistic. Although, I guess I wouldn't really know since I was born a U.S. citizen and haven't ever had to enter the country illegally, but still.

So other than that my day hasn't been to exciting. Emily got a new family yesterday and is moving out later this afternoon. I am sad to see her go, it was nice to have company all the time, but I know that she needs her own house to go home to, she can't just be a visitor in mine forever. 

I don't have school tomorrow or thursday, which is cool. I do have school Friday though, which means I will definitely have to do my drawing homework. Midterm progress reports (or the Ecuadorian equivalent) come out this week, and I can tell you that I probably only am passing English and maybe one or two other classes. I will probably do better then next few months, but the first month it was just really hard to get used to everything and keep up with school work. 

There might be another post tomorrow about my exciting, do nothing day tomorrow, but who knows, i might actually have something to do. 

Hasta Luego, 

Zoe