It's so weird to be posting from home in the states...
I got home a few days ago and am starting the whole re-entry process. It's really weird to not be speaking in Spanish all the time, and every now and then I just can't help myself, so I say something random in Spanish and my parents are just like, 'what?' It's also really weird being in a house like mine that feels super fancy after being in the conditions I lived in in Chile. And driving a car for the first time was such a forgotten feeling!
But lucky for me, I had some friends and relatives visiting this weekend to keep me preoccupied, and my friend Victoria and I went to a Mexican restaurant last night to talked in Spanish, so I got my fill. =)
I guess that's all I've got for now...my life probably won't be as exciting or entertaining as it has been for the last semester, so I probably won't keep blogging.. But thanks to the friends and fam who followed! It was really nice to know that you guys cared about what was going on. And I hope you enjoyed some of the stories and photos. I can't wait to see those of you whom I haven't seen yet! Chaoooooo!
Besitos!
Hannah
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Saturday, June 4, 2011
Nearing the End....
I finally finished my ISP!!!!! After so many hours of work and preparation, I finally turned in my ISP on Thursday and presented on Friday. The ISP was long--25 pages, 6,670 words in all, and a 20-minute powerpoint presentation -- all in Spanish! It is the best feeling finishing something like that that you put so much time and effort into.
We're all at the hotel now for the last few days of the program and have just been listening to presentation after presentation. We listened to all 27 presentations, a total of 13 hours, but everyone was so invested in their projects that it was really nice to see what they had been working so hard on for the last month. My presentation went pretty well. I wasn't that nervous, and I just used a powerpoint and spoke about my project from my own knowledge, without notecards or anything. It just went to show me how much my Spanish has improved; there's no way I could have done a presentation like that before. And now I'm DONE!
The whole group is going out together tonight, one last time, and then tomorrow people will be packing up and saying goodbyes. Tomorrow night we have a goodbye dinner with a slideshow, presents, speeches, all that fun stuff. But I get to stay a few more days with my familyyyy!
I think I'm really ready to go home. There are definitely people, places, and some comforts of home that I miss. But we had a class today on how to deal with reentry and reverse culture shock, and I'm kind of not looking forward to that at all. It will be so weird not being able to talk in Spanish, having to follow Northamerican norms, and just trying to relate to people who have had some very different experiences than I have.
But I am going to have so many pictures and stories for you so you can understand some things!! =)
p.s. I'm getting home on the 10th!
We're all at the hotel now for the last few days of the program and have just been listening to presentation after presentation. We listened to all 27 presentations, a total of 13 hours, but everyone was so invested in their projects that it was really nice to see what they had been working so hard on for the last month. My presentation went pretty well. I wasn't that nervous, and I just used a powerpoint and spoke about my project from my own knowledge, without notecards or anything. It just went to show me how much my Spanish has improved; there's no way I could have done a presentation like that before. And now I'm DONE!
The whole group is going out together tonight, one last time, and then tomorrow people will be packing up and saying goodbyes. Tomorrow night we have a goodbye dinner with a slideshow, presents, speeches, all that fun stuff. But I get to stay a few more days with my familyyyy!
I think I'm really ready to go home. There are definitely people, places, and some comforts of home that I miss. But we had a class today on how to deal with reentry and reverse culture shock, and I'm kind of not looking forward to that at all. It will be so weird not being able to talk in Spanish, having to follow Northamerican norms, and just trying to relate to people who have had some very different experiences than I have.
But I am going to have so many pictures and stories for you so you can understand some things!! =)
p.s. I'm getting home on the 10th!
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Funny T Shirts!
Chileans get a lot of used clothes from the United States. It’s a totally normal thing for them, and they don’t care that they don’t understand the English words on them. I’ve been keeping a little list of all the funny and ironic shirts different people wear …enjoy!
-My host uncle who literally had no idea his shirt said this: Bro’s Before Hos. We gave him a hard time about it after.
-little old gray Chilean lady at a bus stop: front: There’s nothing like…. Back: California Girls
-random lady in town: PLAY WITH ME
-woman getting out of a car: Music is my Boyfriend. Then 2 seconds later I see a guy who is clearly her boyfriend step out of the car.
-young teenage boy: Over-the-Hill University
-My host brother: University of Michigan. I was like, what?! I explained immediately how UMich is an awesome university, how my sister graduated from there, and how my marching band played there. He had no idea what it was. I also saw 2 other guys wearing UMich paraphernalia recently in middle-of-nowhere villages.
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