El Fin de Semena del Bicentenario and a bunch of random updates :)

Hola Chicos! ¿Como estas? Estoy muy feliz en Chile. (Hello you all. How are you? I am very happy in Chile).

hehe My spanish is getting better :). I have officially been here for a little over a month. I understand a ton more spanish and am slowly speaking more. To force myself into speaking more, I chose to only speak spanish this weak. Talk about difficult... But I'm doing it. Slowly but surely. :) My host family and friends are great encouragements to help keep me motivated in trying this. So thanks to all of them.

Ok. So this past Friday my family took me to see a Chileno rodeo and then to their apartment on the beach. Saturday was the bicenntenial of Chile's independence. It was very very interesting. :) It was also very relaxing. Which is what I needed. :)  Here are some pics:


The rodeo



Me and a hueso chileno. (person in the rodeo)





Our apartment building

The beach

Me running away from a wave (The water was FREEZING)

I loved the wet sand.

That's about it. Today I got a history book to borrow for the rest of the school year (December). I was pretty excited. Tonight I started reading it. I understand it but it is very monotonous because I have to type it into Google translate. 27 pages in 13 days is beginning to seem like alot. But I am bound and determined to do it because I love history. And I don't like not doing anything. :)

Chao for now!