well lets see i left you guys off at the end of my first trip with the other exchangers and just about to head out to my new house and family that awaited me. and now two months later i can say that i greatly enjoy this new fam. i have a brother who is just turned 19 in jan and a sister who just turned 22 and a mother whos age i have no idea and i probably will never ask. my host bro is kinda like me which is cool were both super relaxed people and like to have fun when the time calls for it... and he talks slowly so i can actually understand him. in contrast my host sister talks a mile a minute and seems to always be full of bubbley energy so we have a very interesting sibling dynamic in this house. my host mom is just a super sweet person, always looking out for me and cleaning my stuff when im taking a shower so i cant stop her, she wont even let me wash the dishes i have to do it secret. to say the least its been a very fun time in this house.
now its time to tell you what ive been up to for the month of december. so i went back to school and we had a week of boring school in which i did very little, but then the following week was Semana Berchmans which was one week of intense competitions. one class from each grade 6-11 was placed in one of the four teams: Black white orange and blue. i was on black. these competitions ranged far beyond the simple sports games there were academic competions like math physics and english, there were artistic competions like poetry, dance and music, and of course the sports competions. so i wasnt planning on doing much this week just because it didnt seem necesary for me to participate but as i was sitting in the cafeteria one day reading myself some much ado about nothing a group of girls came up to me speaking spanish faster than ive ever heard before so after i gave them my signature blank stare look they realized that they needed to slow down a bit and then i finally understood that they wanted help for this thing called fonomimica (lipsync)... fantastic. turns out they had a rap in this thing and it was in english and it was too hard for them to learn... liars. but i accepted it anyway i just viewed it as me doing another show, i needed a character, a walk, and all that and it was fine. so that was my first event. then another friend came up to me and asked me to help in playing music for the interpretes competition, this is where we need to compose a piece and then perform it, cool so i whipped out my uke and got to work, two events. then i was goin to participate in waterpolo, 3, and volleyball, 4, and that was all that in the end i planned on doing, but then my friend came up to me one morning during the week and asked me to play my uke as backround music for the poetry comp., 5. so it was a busy week. unfortunately after two days of the sports i decided that it was probably better for my finger and knee if i stopped which was a bummer, but it didnt really matter if i played or not we kinda sucked in the first place we lost every game of those two sports... but we did ok in soccer. but in interpretes we got third which wasnt so bad considering that the other teams utilized a teacher to play an instrument for their band when we didnt, so we found comfort in that. but the cool thing was we got first in the fonomimica which i was told was coolest event to win in. we also won the dance competions which were just super cool to watch... all in all we got third. that doesnt sound too bad right? well when you hold it up against the fact that two teams tied for first... it kinda sucks. but really after it i didnt really care because it was now vacations!
so just letting you guys know i started this blog at the very beginning of jan. and i was super proud that i was writing it early but... i got lazy and didnt finish. so i just went through it and corrected all the things that would have sounded weird now that its feb. the unfortunate part except for the fact that my parents are getting on my butt to write a new one is that ive forgotten a lot that has happened in dec. during my vacations. so there probably wont be as many stories anymore and i need to keep this one short so you guys dont go blind from staring at the screen for 5 hours. anyway the rest of december.... well we had christmas party for the group of us exchange students here in cali which was a great time. i wrote my first song on my uke as a christmas present and performed it. i was a little nervous so i screwed up a bit but they said it sounded good. sometimes its nice knowing people are lying to make you feel better. and we made this crazy good drink from austria, but since it was in german i have no idea what the name is. the next day was the 24th now why am i talking of christmas eve? because it was christmas day for us. confused? so was i. yup christmas is the night of the 24th. i guess you could say it went into the 25th because it went till three in the morning but ya all the presents dinner and the whole shabang was the 24th. i had a good time that night, we danced (of course), ate delicious food, did a catholic tradition, wrote letters not to santa but niño dios. who is niño dios? really before this i wouldnt have been able to say but i guess kid God is like their santa, just a little bit more religious. it was a different but cool christmas. the next week was called feria... and this week was a never ending party unless your a kill joy like me and cant stay up late till 3 every day. it was a week full of dancing, parties, booze (not for me), food and more dancing. it was crazy, but i had a good time my mom and i were the ones who always wanted to leave the party at a decent hour... which is like 1 30, but as i said before that was the hour of the kill joys. so we partied and partied and partied some more. by the end of this week i wasnt able to go to sleep before 2 am im still recovering i got it down to 11 30, that doesnt sound bad but the the two austrians im with are out before 10 and are nice and refreshed for their schools the next day. (that might be a lie cuz who really is nice and refreshed waking up at 5 15 to go to SCHOOL that just doesnt happen, what i mean to say is that theyre in better condition for school than me). so although i liked feria it screwed me over big time. and that brings this blog to an end, ill be starting my next one now for jan. so if you would like to give your eyes a break for a bit go for it, it may be necessary ill try to keep the next one short...ish. well until later friend
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