copa america

chile won their futbol game against ecuador in the copa america today. it was a good game--they were supposed to lose and they won 3-2. i watched it with my sister while i made posters with basic questions for the kids to learn in english. now we´re watching mexico and brazil, and mexico is up 2-0 with 76 minutes done out of 90. i don´t really feel like writing a long blog. i´m super tired from speaking in spanish all day. my host dad told me that my spanish is getting a ton better, but that is because i speak it all day every day. hopefully anyone´s 2nd language would get better in my situation. so, quick recap of my day:
i only had classes from 11:30 til 1, and they were supposed to be the awful 7th graders. apparently, someone in charge hd talked to them and told them that if they didn´t act nicely to me, i wouldn´t teach them. it worked. the kids were super well behaved, for chilean kids at least, and we came up with 5 basic classroom rules. i wrote the rules on a poster tonight and i am going to go and put it up in class. the first rule is to show respect towards everyone. i think they´ll get it. i hope so at least. the rest of the day, i hung out at home with me host sis and made lunch, then chatted, then hung out some more. she is so sweet, i´m going to miss her when her school starts up again in a week or two.
i also found out that during the 2 week winter break from classes, where i thought i´d have to teach one of the weeks, i don´t actually have to teach at all. that means that i have 2 whole weeks off- one of which i want to go to buenos aires and the other i think it´d be cool if i went to maipu and helped them teach there. i think it´d be cool to see the differences in schooling between rural and metro life...and to hang out with some english speakers for a while :)
okay well i am going to go watch the rest of the game, then go to sleep. i have to work all day tomorrow--thursdays are my longest days of the week.
peace & chau
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