This morning I did not want to get up. Relaxing in Chile is just so tiring J I put on athletic shorts, a t-shirt, and tennis shoes because we’re volunteering at the orphanage later today. Also, I just wanted my outfit to scream “I am an American” just in case locals couldn’t already tell. We had class this morning and it was pretty boring. We talked about the Mapuches and while I respect their culture, I really am not a fan of literally going over our homework word for word in class….seriously; we’re not in middle school anymore. After that class we had grammar. Everyone figured we’d just finish the movie today but Veronica started going over our homework, made us do more activities, and handed out another worksheet. She asked Chris to read something and he was reading so fast we couldn’t even understand him because he thought if we finished that we’d get to watch the movie. Ten minutes before class is over she announces that we’re finishing it tomorrow. We all had our hopes up the whole day for that movie haha oh well. After class I walked home and had lunch with Mama, her aunt, her cousin, and her niece. Since lunch I’ve just been doing homework and in 30 minutes I’m meeting Laura Kate to walk to Niño de Amor together. After that most of us are going to the beach to finish homework.
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Alright so I wrote the above earlier...now it's later and such random things have happened. We had a great time at the orphanage! Laura Kate and I walked there together and it definitely took a good 30 minutes because we got lost going on our shortcut and couldn't find it so we def walked all the way back down the mountain and went the long way. When we finally got there LK pulled out her crayons and coloring books and I pulled out the 2 books I bought at PotteryBarn..."Jorge el Curioso" & a kids book with colors/numbers/etc in spanish & english. The coloring was a big hit and the kids tried to color my books so we had to put the books away for a little while. Later LK got out Curious George and read to about 6 little boys. It was so cute! I mostly played with the baby again. He loves being out of his seat and it was so sad when we had to leave because he screamed in protest when I was putting him back in it. Everyone else left as LK and I were getting Curious George from a little boy who was ripping the cover. I'm going to leave the book with them but on a day when I can give it to a tia without it being destroyed by a 6 year old. After we left we got waters from a nearby store and walked to the beach to find Chris. There were a ton of people on the beach with no room to sit and there was some kind of rescue mission going on in the water with like 10 people so we left with Chris. Elizabeth called as we were walking and she was creepily behind us so we waited for her to catch up. As we were walking LK and I were talking about how we want to adopt all 13 of those sweet kids. Lk said that it would be like cheaper by the dozen, but with one more. Then Chris was like...oh wait, it'd be cheaper by the baker's dozen. So clever. Thus, it's the title of this blog entry. Elizabeth and I went to my house to get a band aid (because I have a gash in my foot from my new shoes from walking all over the mountain) before we went to the beach.
We walked to a little beach close to my house to do homework and we had been there for a little more than an hour when the earth shook...yes that's correct. There was another temblor. Elizabeth said the windows on a nearby restaurant were shaking badly and it lasted for a good 5 or more seconds. Then a few minutes later there was another earthquake. We decided it was probably time to leave only after we took a hundred pictures down by the water. We walked back home and when I got here Fernanda said that the earthquake was a 6.1 on the scale! So crazy...
Hopefully there won't be any more earthquakes while we're here. Tonight I'm going to eat dinner, study for my test Friday, and go to bed early. :) Hope everyone's doing well. I can't wait to see yall soon but I am not ready to leave Chile!!
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