Well it's been two months since I left the states for Chile and I must say that the time has been flying by. I'm gonna be back home before I know it. :( TEAR! I've started to love this place. The people. The culture. And even the food, sometimes!
Last week I didn't do a Friday Night Update because I was in Rancagua, Chile for the celebration of Fiestas Patrias which roughly means Patriotic Holidays. This is for the celebration of Chile's independence from Spain. I spent four days there with my one Chilean friend Christian and my friend Logan from Wisconsin. Christian took us to his grandmothers pension (spelled wrong) where I think about 14 other people live. The entire weekend/week was a blast. Christian and his friends took us to all kinds of things. We went to the national tennis match between Chile and Austria! Eight hours of tennis in a day is almost a little to much for me. They have these things called Fundas for their Fiestas Patrias which I would compare to a county fair but they have hundreds of them. Last week I went to 6 of them in total. They have food, dancing, rides, games, stores, and drinking! You could buy a triple shoot for 300 pesos. (roughly 60 cents) Talk about being a cheap drunk! Oh and I don't think they close and if they do they close sometime after 6am! In the four days I spent in Rancagua I slept at most 21 hours. The day was spent eating and meeting new people and the night (night = sometime after 1:30am) was spent drinking with them. The food I had over the last four days has been some of the best I've had since I have arrived here. We had steak, pork, chicken, hot dogs, sausage, fish, and other stuff I never got the name of. We also went horse back riding and spent the day in the country. The Andes mountains are amazing! Overall it was amazing and I kind of want to do it again.
I have a lot more I want to write but I have go home and study for a test tomorrow that I will probably fail. Thats me being optimistic too. It's ok though I've not been the most amazing student here. I blame myself! (i was gonna say facebook and the chilean culture....)
This weekend I'll upload photos and try to make some more post.
Chau,
Stra10
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Saturday, September 12, 2009
Friday Night Update (on Saturday)
Sorry I didn't do this yesterday! But I'm doing it now. Go ahead and enjoy. It has been a good week. I am 4 of 6 for waking up early this week. I consider that a success. I just hope tomorrow I pull it off one more time. The trick to waking up early is having something to do. Even if it's made up. Like on Wednesday I told myself I had to study for a quiz I was having in class. I don't suggest lying to yourself but I couldn't think of anything right so I had to. I should have a youtube video up of me getting up in the mornings tomorrow. Hopefully it's funny.
Right now i'm at a lose for things to write...
Last Monday I had my first day of English Volunteer teaching. It was different. Extremely different. The kids were outrageously loud but wonderful. It's so hard to have a clear thought when you have 20+ kids you questions all at once. I felt so bad for the teacher because she had no control over her two classes. But I did sit in another class and that teacher did have much more control over his class. I'm gonna blame half of it on that there is a foreigner in the class and all the kids want to do is find out more about me. It was fun and i'm looking forward to more of it. I'll do a whole post on it after a few weeks.
Right now i'm on vacation actually. I have a solid 12 days off. Thank you begin a foreign exchange student & Chile's independence. I didn't even know I had off until Thursday afternoon when the teacher was like ok see you all in two weeks and don't die. Ok well he didn't say don't die but I felt like he should have. Since this is a time of celebration is compelete chaos in Chile!
Today the ISA (International Studies Abroad) group went to Pomaire and Isla Negra to see one of Pablo Neruda's houses. Pablo was the man! And a real ladies man. As far as I understood he had three wives and a handful of mistresses. After seeing his last house I would have been one of his mistresses as well. Just plain amazing. They don't let you take pictures of the inside for some reason so I don't have any but I do have some of the amazing view. Check them out Here!
On September 11th I spent the day watching conspiracy theory videos on it. God I really hope we didn't do that to ourselves. I mean I wouldn't doubt it but i'm just gonna believe whatever and I don't even know what is. I mean in general it's terrible so I'll leave it that. A little food for thought is that more Chileans were killed becasue of the US Junta government in Chile that came into power on 9/11/1973. All things 9/11 are crappy....
Well i'm done I keep get getting distracted by youtube.... check this out!
Right now i'm at a lose for things to write...
Last Monday I had my first day of English Volunteer teaching. It was different. Extremely different. The kids were outrageously loud but wonderful. It's so hard to have a clear thought when you have 20+ kids you questions all at once. I felt so bad for the teacher because she had no control over her two classes. But I did sit in another class and that teacher did have much more control over his class. I'm gonna blame half of it on that there is a foreigner in the class and all the kids want to do is find out more about me. It was fun and i'm looking forward to more of it. I'll do a whole post on it after a few weeks.
Right now i'm on vacation actually. I have a solid 12 days off. Thank you begin a foreign exchange student & Chile's independence. I didn't even know I had off until Thursday afternoon when the teacher was like ok see you all in two weeks and don't die. Ok well he didn't say don't die but I felt like he should have. Since this is a time of celebration is compelete chaos in Chile!
Today the ISA (International Studies Abroad) group went to Pomaire and Isla Negra to see one of Pablo Neruda's houses. Pablo was the man! And a real ladies man. As far as I understood he had three wives and a handful of mistresses. After seeing his last house I would have been one of his mistresses as well. Just plain amazing. They don't let you take pictures of the inside for some reason so I don't have any but I do have some of the amazing view. Check them out Here!
On September 11th I spent the day watching conspiracy theory videos on it. God I really hope we didn't do that to ourselves. I mean I wouldn't doubt it but i'm just gonna believe whatever and I don't even know what is. I mean in general it's terrible so I'll leave it that. A little food for thought is that more Chileans were killed becasue of the US Junta government in Chile that came into power on 9/11/1973. All things 9/11 are crappy....
Well i'm done I keep get getting distracted by youtube.... check this out!
Stra10
Friday, September 4, 2009
Friday Night Update
Hola and welcome to this episode of Friday Night Update and the first post of September. Today is September 9th 2009 around 8pm. This week could be given the tag #FAIL. Probably the only successful thing I have done all week is get unsick. Not really sure if that is even a word but I'm using it. I have successfully become unsick! Other than that I really haven't accomplished anything. Quick Run Down!
1. Get Unsick! CHECK
2. Edit New Youtube Video! FAIL
3. New Blog Layout! FAIL
4. Improved My Spanish! FAIL (anything less than fluent is considered a fail)
5. Wake Up Before Noon! FAIL
6. Run! FAIL
7. Compelted all the Mission on CHECK but FAIL (that is a clear waste of time)
So what have I done all week you might ask! Well lets see I went to all but one of my classes. SUCCESS I also crammed in all my homework at the last minute and only failed at turning in one assignment! SUCCESS I spent all of my time with Gringos other than when i'm out at night! SUCCESS I showered 4 out of the last 7 days! SUCCESS I learned 120 new Spanish words that are absolutely useless in everyday conversation! (ex. eclampsia) SUCCESS I'm writing my second Friday Night Update! SUCCESS So yeah i've been super productive.
I was once told don't believe nothing and question everything. And for the most part I try. Now sometimes I feel like most people when given this advice they become that argumentative person that you avoid like the plague. I try not to be that person unless i'm arguing with my mom and then I know all and I'm correct even when it's obvious i'm wrong=correct. TO THE POINT! So as you might have read in the last two post I'm trying to wake up earlier. In the hope that I have a more productive day. This however has proven a tad bit harder than I imagined. I figured hey I need 8 hours of sleep and I want to wake up at 8am so I should go to sleep at midnight. Well according to popular believe that would be correct.
I found that I failed at waking up 7 times in a row. I figured with that success rate either I lack self-discipline or i'm going about this in the wrong way. There are a few contributing factors to this.
1. I was getting over a cold.
2. Sleep cycle right now is 3am to 12pm.
3. I actually lost my alarm clock for 2 days.
4. I lack a little self-discipline at 8am.
But I had a feeling I was going about this wrong. So I dove into the internet world and found a few things that seem to wrong in my approach. My first discovery is that we actually don't need 8 hours of sleep. Why didn't I know this before. I've been told since kindergarten I need 8 hours of sleep a day to be functional. (see believe nothing and question everything) Second that you shouldn't try to go to sleep when your not tired. This was a little harder to figure out. But it comes down to if your not doing something stimulating and you didn't just drink a cup of coffee and it's taking you longer than 15 minutes to fall asleep it's not time for your body to sleep. So get up out of bed and do something productive like read a book, write a blog, study an algorithm, practice some Spanish and then try to fall asleep again. Finally and this goes a lot with my first discovery is that you don't need a bed time just a wake up time. My original goal was to wake up at 8am. (it has changed to 7am because I now have volunteer work at 8:15 on mondays) This means that everyday I should wake up at 7am but it doesn't mean that I have to go to bed at 11pm every night. Actually I could go to sleep between 11:30pm and 1am and be perfectly functional. Also the ultimate sleeping length is 7.5 hrs and not 8. And yeah thats what I found and I'm still searching and still figuring stuff out and I'm really angry that I know there are things I believe that without even thing about are wrong. So yeah the earth isn't round and the universe isn't expanding and i'm not really in South America.
How Much Time I'll Gain From Not Sleeping In!
Currently I sleep a solid 10.5 hrs a day. (yeah i know)
10.5 - 7.5 = 3hrs <- I will gain that a day we will say on average
3hrs * 7days = 21hrs a week
3hrs * 30.4days = 91.2hrs a week
3hrs * 365days = 1095 hrs a year
1095hrs / 24hrs = 45.6 days I will gain a year
1095hrs / 168hrs = 6.5 weeks I will gain a year
Lets turn that into money because time = money! If I could make 10 dollars an hour in those extra 3hrs that would be $10,950. Yeah thats better than any internet get rich quick scam I have ever seen! Now lets see a life time. I plan on living till i'm 120.
120 - 24 = 96yrs
96yrs * $10,950 = $1,051,200 <-now if that isn't motivation to get out of bed! Hell.
Lets be more realistic! I do plan on retiring and letting my money work for me. Lets say for the next 40yrs those 3hrs earn me $10/hr.
40yrs * $10,950 = $438,000
What if those 3hrs earned me $25/hr for 40yrs
40yrs * ($25 * 1095hrs/yr) = $1,095,000
Ok yeah i'm gonna difently start waking up earlier. If just waking up is going to earn me money then so be it! Anyway I don't know where the whole money thing came from but ok. This is unedited and not proof read so there are probably a ton of mistakes but I told myself I had to do this before I ventured out for the night. Hope you enjoyed and I will catch you all later.
1. Get Unsick! CHECK
2. Edit New Youtube Video! FAIL
3. New Blog Layout! FAIL
4. Improved My Spanish! FAIL (anything less than fluent is considered a fail)
5. Wake Up Before Noon! FAIL
6. Run! FAIL
7. Compelted all the Mission on CHECK but FAIL (that is a clear waste of time)
So what have I done all week you might ask! Well lets see I went to all but one of my classes. SUCCESS I also crammed in all my homework at the last minute and only failed at turning in one assignment! SUCCESS I spent all of my time with Gringos other than when i'm out at night! SUCCESS I showered 4 out of the last 7 days! SUCCESS I learned 120 new Spanish words that are absolutely useless in everyday conversation! (ex. eclampsia) SUCCESS I'm writing my second Friday Night Update! SUCCESS So yeah i've been super productive.
I was once told don't believe nothing and question everything. And for the most part I try. Now sometimes I feel like most people when given this advice they become that argumentative person that you avoid like the plague. I try not to be that person unless i'm arguing with my mom and then I know all and I'm correct even when it's obvious i'm wrong=correct. TO THE POINT! So as you might have read in the last two post I'm trying to wake up earlier. In the hope that I have a more productive day. This however has proven a tad bit harder than I imagined. I figured hey I need 8 hours of sleep and I want to wake up at 8am so I should go to sleep at midnight. Well according to popular believe that would be correct.
I found that I failed at waking up 7 times in a row. I figured with that success rate either I lack self-discipline or i'm going about this in the wrong way. There are a few contributing factors to this.
1. I was getting over a cold.
2. Sleep cycle right now is 3am to 12pm.
3. I actually lost my alarm clock for 2 days.
4. I lack a little self-discipline at 8am.
But I had a feeling I was going about this wrong. So I dove into the internet world and found a few things that seem to wrong in my approach. My first discovery is that we actually don't need 8 hours of sleep. Why didn't I know this before. I've been told since kindergarten I need 8 hours of sleep a day to be functional. (see believe nothing and question everything) Second that you shouldn't try to go to sleep when your not tired. This was a little harder to figure out. But it comes down to if your not doing something stimulating and you didn't just drink a cup of coffee and it's taking you longer than 15 minutes to fall asleep it's not time for your body to sleep. So get up out of bed and do something productive like read a book, write a blog, study an algorithm, practice some Spanish and then try to fall asleep again. Finally and this goes a lot with my first discovery is that you don't need a bed time just a wake up time. My original goal was to wake up at 8am. (it has changed to 7am because I now have volunteer work at 8:15 on mondays) This means that everyday I should wake up at 7am but it doesn't mean that I have to go to bed at 11pm every night. Actually I could go to sleep between 11:30pm and 1am and be perfectly functional. Also the ultimate sleeping length is 7.5 hrs and not 8. And yeah thats what I found and I'm still searching and still figuring stuff out and I'm really angry that I know there are things I believe that without even thing about are wrong. So yeah the earth isn't round and the universe isn't expanding and i'm not really in South America.
How Much Time I'll Gain From Not Sleeping In!
Currently I sleep a solid 10.5 hrs a day. (yeah i know)
10.5 - 7.5 = 3hrs <- I will gain that a day we will say on average
3hrs * 7days = 21hrs a week
3hrs * 30.4days = 91.2hrs a week
3hrs * 365days = 1095 hrs a year
1095hrs / 24hrs = 45.6 days I will gain a year
1095hrs / 168hrs = 6.5 weeks I will gain a year
Lets turn that into money because time = money! If I could make 10 dollars an hour in those extra 3hrs that would be $10,950. Yeah thats better than any internet get rich quick scam I have ever seen! Now lets see a life time. I plan on living till i'm 120.
120 - 24 = 96yrs
96yrs * $10,950 = $1,051,200 <-now if that isn't motivation to get out of bed! Hell.
Lets be more realistic! I do plan on retiring and letting my money work for me. Lets say for the next 40yrs those 3hrs earn me $10/hr.
40yrs * $10,950 = $438,000
What if those 3hrs earned me $25/hr for 40yrs
40yrs * ($25 * 1095hrs/yr) = $1,095,000
Ok yeah i'm gonna difently start waking up earlier. If just waking up is going to earn me money then so be it! Anyway I don't know where the whole money thing came from but ok. This is unedited and not proof read so there are probably a ton of mistakes but I told myself I had to do this before I ventured out for the night. Hope you enjoyed and I will catch you all later.
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Stra10
Monday, August 31, 2009
End of Augusto
I was looking for a reason to blog and I think end of a month is a good reason! Now we have the monthly updates, friday night update, and starting now the end of the month updates! If you have any other ideas for reasons to blog leave it in a comment below. I only have about 50 minutes to be creative and then correct all my spelling and grammar mistakes. Yeah I still somehow make spelling mistakes even with spell checker. PS: I'm listening to Kings of Leon. Love those guys!
Today was the first day I tried to wake up at 8am. I rolled about of bed in time for lunch. It was a good attempt. We will try again tomorrow. Actually, tomorrow I have to be up by 9 no matter what! This time i'm putting one alarm by the door and the other behind the TV. That should at least cause me to get out of bed for a few seconds. This staying up till 3 or 4 in the morning is hard to break. I really like doing it but I have things I really want to do in the morning. Like run! I blame my not being able to get up early on my childhood. Not saying my parents didn't try. It's just I was that kid that would make the most persistent parent give up and accept defeat. Guess I will always be a night owl.
Being sick has really taken a toll on my Spanish. It was not a good day for us two. Class was bit of a spanglish disaster. I'm usually not one to give up but halfway through class I said screw it, I'll figure this out later and started day dreaming. Day dreaming went well though so 2+ points there. The biggest problem with class today was we were learning about Direct and Indirect Pronouns. Now I have an idea of what they are in English but I would say i'm a tad rusty on the subject. Now there is a few problems with this. First I haven't had any kind of grammar since High School. Second it's being explained in a language I command like an infant. Third direct and indirect objects don't work exactly the same in Spanish as they do in English. This made everything a tad bit hairy. After it became apparent I wasn't understanding anything I got reprimanded for not studying. Sorry! I didn't know. I'll be sure to study all parts of spanish grammar before I come to class from now on. After class I opened up a grammar book and revisited 8th grade in Spanish. Grammar/English was never my strongest subject! (you can add Spanish to that list too now.)
Ok well I need to edit this and head off to bed! If you didn't know my pictures of Chile are here! Check em out...
Stra10
Today was the first day I tried to wake up at 8am. I rolled about of bed in time for lunch. It was a good attempt. We will try again tomorrow. Actually, tomorrow I have to be up by 9 no matter what! This time i'm putting one alarm by the door and the other behind the TV. That should at least cause me to get out of bed for a few seconds. This staying up till 3 or 4 in the morning is hard to break. I really like doing it but I have things I really want to do in the morning. Like run! I blame my not being able to get up early on my childhood. Not saying my parents didn't try. It's just I was that kid that would make the most persistent parent give up and accept defeat. Guess I will always be a night owl.
Being sick has really taken a toll on my Spanish. It was not a good day for us two. Class was bit of a spanglish disaster. I'm usually not one to give up but halfway through class I said screw it, I'll figure this out later and started day dreaming. Day dreaming went well though so 2+ points there. The biggest problem with class today was we were learning about Direct and Indirect Pronouns. Now I have an idea of what they are in English but I would say i'm a tad rusty on the subject. Now there is a few problems with this. First I haven't had any kind of grammar since High School. Second it's being explained in a language I command like an infant. Third direct and indirect objects don't work exactly the same in Spanish as they do in English. This made everything a tad bit hairy. After it became apparent I wasn't understanding anything I got reprimanded for not studying. Sorry! I didn't know. I'll be sure to study all parts of spanish grammar before I come to class from now on. After class I opened up a grammar book and revisited 8th grade in Spanish. Grammar/English was never my strongest subject! (you can add Spanish to that list too now.)
Ok well I need to edit this and head off to bed! If you didn't know my pictures of Chile are here! Check em out...
Stra10
Friday, August 28, 2009
Friday Night Update
Hola! I want to start putting up blog post on Friday nights! Right now it's Saturday morning but I have to start sometime. Let's Recap the Week! I've been sick! Yeah pretty much sums it up! Upload a new video to my youtube channel! Started a new design for my blog. And I've come up with some goals! Let us dive in...
Being sick is not fun. What are those people called that actually fake being sick? Hypercondriacs? That would be the worst thing in the world to have to go around all the time trying to be and act sick. I couldn't do it. Well I could but man would I be miserable. I think by Monday I will be back to my normal self. Maybe a small sniffle here and there.
I have another video to upload to youtube but I need to figure out how to reduce the background noise. My camera has a lot of static that I don't think should be there. So if your someone that watches my few videos be looking for it around middle of next week. Yeah I even procrastinate with procrastinating. My youtube channel is here!
Like the way my blog looks? Totally original I know! Actually I signed up for a wordpress and I was really excited and was about to scrap this blog and make that my main blog! But to do simple CSS edits you have to pay like $15 bucks a month. And then you don't have the ability for Ad's but they can put Ad's on your site in which you don't get any reward. There was a few other things I ended up not liking and came back here! Yey. Although I must admit wordpress has functionality I really wish blogger did and their business model is well genius but I still refuse to pay for any service online! But yes so right now I'm creating my own layout. Hopefully it will be up soon.
Right now I don't feel like i'm getting much done. The only thing I have to do is learn Spanish! Even that I feel like i'm failing at. I blame the sickness for that because I just don't have the patients to listen let alone put a sentence together. Tomorrow I have to do some dedicated practice! I'll try to get two hours in.
Really, I have nothing to do. Back home I always something to do next. Example! I would wake up at 6 for practice. Then I'd come home shower and make some breakfast. I would cram whatever homework was due into the little bit of free time I had and head off to class. Then internship. Evening practice! Home to shower and make dinner. Then evening class and well homework/procrastination/friends/library/internet/tv/video games. And then sleep to wake up and do it all again. And that was my life for the last 4 years! In Chile it's wake up around 1, eat lunch, go to 4 to 6 hours of class, come home, eat, internet, and sleep!
I've come up with a list of stuff that is going to occupy my days in Chile. I have to start going to bed by 12. Thats the only way this is going to work! I'll post later on how thats working out. I start volunteer teaching kids in English sometime next month! I'm really looking forward to it.
Also, usually I have a pretty big goal in my life that keeps me rolling forward. So I've decided that the Leadville 100 Mile Run is all mine! I think I can break 20 hrs if I have a good year of running. As time goes on i'll readjust my goal-time depending if I think I can go faster or slower! Maybe i'll even win it....
Sorry that was so long and ramblely but thats whats on my mind right now!
Check Out - thesixyone
Stra10
Being sick is not fun. What are those people called that actually fake being sick? Hypercondriacs? That would be the worst thing in the world to have to go around all the time trying to be and act sick. I couldn't do it. Well I could but man would I be miserable. I think by Monday I will be back to my normal self. Maybe a small sniffle here and there.
I have another video to upload to youtube but I need to figure out how to reduce the background noise. My camera has a lot of static that I don't think should be there. So if your someone that watches my few videos be looking for it around middle of next week. Yeah I even procrastinate with procrastinating. My youtube channel is here!
Like the way my blog looks? Totally original I know! Actually I signed up for a wordpress and I was really excited and was about to scrap this blog and make that my main blog! But to do simple CSS edits you have to pay like $15 bucks a month. And then you don't have the ability for Ad's but they can put Ad's on your site in which you don't get any reward. There was a few other things I ended up not liking and came back here! Yey. Although I must admit wordpress has functionality I really wish blogger did and their business model is well genius but I still refuse to pay for any service online! But yes so right now I'm creating my own layout. Hopefully it will be up soon.
Right now I don't feel like i'm getting much done. The only thing I have to do is learn Spanish! Even that I feel like i'm failing at. I blame the sickness for that because I just don't have the patients to listen let alone put a sentence together. Tomorrow I have to do some dedicated practice! I'll try to get two hours in.
Really, I have nothing to do. Back home I always something to do next. Example! I would wake up at 6 for practice. Then I'd come home shower and make some breakfast. I would cram whatever homework was due into the little bit of free time I had and head off to class. Then internship. Evening practice! Home to shower and make dinner. Then evening class and well homework/procrastination/friends/library/internet/tv/video games. And then sleep to wake up and do it all again. And that was my life for the last 4 years! In Chile it's wake up around 1, eat lunch, go to 4 to 6 hours of class, come home, eat, internet, and sleep!
I've come up with a list of stuff that is going to occupy my days in Chile. I have to start going to bed by 12. Thats the only way this is going to work! I'll post later on how thats working out. I start volunteer teaching kids in English sometime next month! I'm really looking forward to it.
Also, usually I have a pretty big goal in my life that keeps me rolling forward. So I've decided that the Leadville 100 Mile Run is all mine! I think I can break 20 hrs if I have a good year of running. As time goes on i'll readjust my goal-time depending if I think I can go faster or slower! Maybe i'll even win it....
Sorry that was so long and ramblely but thats whats on my mind right now!
Check Out - thesixyone
Stra10
Sunday, August 23, 2009
Sick In Chile
So I could be doing my homework or bettering my Spanish but I'd rather Blog instead. I've actually spent most of the day in bed watching videos on YouTube and reading articles on America's Healthcare Reform. Youtube was fun and the Healthcare was just infuriating. Oh well...
Anyone that knows me, knows i'm not a "Big Ole Cuddly Bear" when i'm sick. Typically i'm pretty miserable and usually cry until someone brings me chicken noddle soup and a box of Kleenex. Speaking of Kleenex I bought some yesterday. I was only trying to buy one box of them but somehow bought 24 mini-packages of the kind you carry in your pocket. It only cost $4 american dollars so I'm not complaining.
I keep getting asked what is it like down there?!?! It's a lot the same and yet still very different. I mean Chile doesn't equal the stone age like a few of you seem to think. Yes they do have electricity and running water. People drive cars and buildings have elevators. Teenagers play video games and watch porn. They have washers and dryers but don't use the dryer much to save on electric. The biggest difference I have found in General is peoples obsession with America (a.k.a. The United Sates for those annoying smart asses that say South America is still America too! ReTARDs). Overall I would call that a bad thing. Example: Sarah Palin continues to be a hot topic down here. Boring!
Oh so I've been here for a tad bit more than a month. My Spanish has improved a lot. But I still can't come close to holding a full conversation even if I was only talking to a piece of cheese. For awhile there I was scared I wasn't going to learn a thing and just waste a couple grand on a really long vacation in South America.
Quick tip on learning new words in another language. You want to translate a word from English to Spanish. So you want to learn that word English to Spanish. Like this!
Knife - El Cuchillo
You also want to do the same for phrases!
How was your day? - ¿Cómo fue tu día?
Since I started studying words and phrases like that I have been able to recall the words a lot easier. Anyway thats my two cents on that....
Overall it's been a good month! I'll try to do these a little bit more often. And I'll try to give some better examples on whats really different about Chile. Also keep an eye out on youtube for some of my new videos that i've made down here! Till Next Time!
Stra10
Anyone that knows me, knows i'm not a "Big Ole Cuddly Bear" when i'm sick. Typically i'm pretty miserable and usually cry until someone brings me chicken noddle soup and a box of Kleenex. Speaking of Kleenex I bought some yesterday. I was only trying to buy one box of them but somehow bought 24 mini-packages of the kind you carry in your pocket. It only cost $4 american dollars so I'm not complaining.
I keep getting asked what is it like down there?!?! It's a lot the same and yet still very different. I mean Chile doesn't equal the stone age like a few of you seem to think. Yes they do have electricity and running water. People drive cars and buildings have elevators. Teenagers play video games and watch porn. They have washers and dryers but don't use the dryer much to save on electric. The biggest difference I have found in General is peoples obsession with America (a.k.a. The United Sates for those annoying smart asses that say South America is still America too! ReTARDs). Overall I would call that a bad thing. Example: Sarah Palin continues to be a hot topic down here. Boring!
Oh so I've been here for a tad bit more than a month. My Spanish has improved a lot. But I still can't come close to holding a full conversation even if I was only talking to a piece of cheese. For awhile there I was scared I wasn't going to learn a thing and just waste a couple grand on a really long vacation in South America.
Quick tip on learning new words in another language. You want to translate a word from English to Spanish. So you want to learn that word English to Spanish. Like this!
Knife - El Cuchillo
You also want to do the same for phrases!
How was your day? - ¿Cómo fue tu día?
Since I started studying words and phrases like that I have been able to recall the words a lot easier. Anyway thats my two cents on that....
Overall it's been a good month! I'll try to do these a little bit more often. And I'll try to give some better examples on whats really different about Chile. Also keep an eye out on youtube for some of my new videos that i've made down here! Till Next Time!
Stra10
Monday, August 17, 2009
Silence
Hola! God i'm tired. I think not being able to talk to people really makes me tired. I haven't had a conversation that was more advance than these: "How are you?" "What did you do?" and "Do you like it?". I am dying for a conversation that involves something than me talking about myself...
I went skiing in the Andes yesterday! It was a good time. Lots of fresh powder to learn how to snowboard through. I had never snowboard in powder and boy do I wish had someone there that could have given me tips on it. One random Chilean told me I had to think I was surfing. Now I was grateful for his insight to how to glide ever so gracefully over the foot of powder that I kept sinking into like quick sand but I've never surfed. So his words fell on a daft intellect or at least onto a set of ears that have never experience hanging ten! Oh and I made it down the hill before him. (It took me a good 30 minutes!) By end of the day I was holding my own in the unforgiving powder. In part because most of it had been plowed over already and also because I was to tired to fall down again.
I've found that knowing I can't communicate has made me very reserved and maybe even a little standoffish. This morning on the Miccro (what they call the buses here) there was a man dressed in a clown outfit providing entertainment. I sat next to a man that clown took to be a "Gringo" but was actually Chilean. Then the clown started talking to be but all I wanted to do was ignore him. Then he started talking in English. So I responded in Spanish. Then he started talking in Spanish. I couldn't understand him. So I told him I didn't understand him in English. Then he made a joke and the whole bus laughed. I did not! Clown then ranted on about the United States. Guy sitting next to me translated. Basically the clown was bitter he wasn't American. He then asked me for money. I told him I didn't have any. He called me Cheap in Spanish. Yeah well I think he is a moron! I don't like anyone that talks on a Miccro! Although a Chilean chica did obviously sit next to me when there obviously were other open seats. She was cute! She didn't speak any english! We only traded smiles!
Ok well i'm tired and tired!
Stra10
I went skiing in the Andes yesterday! It was a good time. Lots of fresh powder to learn how to snowboard through. I had never snowboard in powder and boy do I wish had someone there that could have given me tips on it. One random Chilean told me I had to think I was surfing. Now I was grateful for his insight to how to glide ever so gracefully over the foot of powder that I kept sinking into like quick sand but I've never surfed. So his words fell on a daft intellect or at least onto a set of ears that have never experience hanging ten! Oh and I made it down the hill before him. (It took me a good 30 minutes!) By end of the day I was holding my own in the unforgiving powder. In part because most of it had been plowed over already and also because I was to tired to fall down again.
I've found that knowing I can't communicate has made me very reserved and maybe even a little standoffish. This morning on the Miccro (what they call the buses here) there was a man dressed in a clown outfit providing entertainment. I sat next to a man that clown took to be a "Gringo" but was actually Chilean. Then the clown started talking to be but all I wanted to do was ignore him. Then he started talking in English. So I responded in Spanish. Then he started talking in Spanish. I couldn't understand him. So I told him I didn't understand him in English. Then he made a joke and the whole bus laughed. I did not! Clown then ranted on about the United States. Guy sitting next to me translated. Basically the clown was bitter he wasn't American. He then asked me for money. I told him I didn't have any. He called me Cheap in Spanish. Yeah well I think he is a moron! I don't like anyone that talks on a Miccro! Although a Chilean chica did obviously sit next to me when there obviously were other open seats. She was cute! She didn't speak any english! We only traded smiles!
Ok well i'm tired and tired!
Stra10
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