It's been 2 weeks minus a day

      Hard to believe! It seems longer yet shorter. Feels like I can barely remember living in Whitehorse or my last days there, but at the same time it still feels like I've just gotten to my host family and I still have A LOT of adjusting to do. Yesterday was my first day of school.

      We're starting school (colegio) in the middle of their school year. They graduate or have some sort of celebration in December (for the cinco grade, which is our equivalent of grade 12. But I think the work equivalent would be more like grade 11ish, because when I was helping Jhoselyn with her UNIVERSITY math homework, it was stuff I learned three years ago in grade 10 math!!) and then January/February is their two month summer vacay! Mona and I are attending a private catholic school called Senor de la Vida. This week is their 8th year anniversary (apparently they celebrate every year...seems pointless but ooook) so we don't have any classes all week... ugh! Feels like I'm never going to get started!! All I wanna do is go to school in spanish and learn spanish hahaha. But it's a fairly small school, smaller than FH, probably as many students as Selkirk, and Mona and I were introduced on a stage to them all. They kind of worship us. All the little kids are very cute and sweet and crowd around and hug us and ask us a million questions. Some are very shy while others come and sidle up as close as possible with cute lil smiles haha. It's funny because the school is from our equivalent of K-12, and all the little boys keep asking how old we are. When we were on the stage, they took questions from the student audience, and the first question was "Do you have boyfriends?" Hahahaha. She does, I don't, but I said yes. :P They don't seem to be bothered by it though and keep trying hahaha

        All my classmates are very nice, decent seeming kids and it's cool how genuinely interested everyone is in where we're from and what it's like and everything about ourselves. In Canada, we're so used to it being multicultural and having new exchange students. In some ways it's good, but here the exchange students feel more welcome than in Canada, because everyone wants to know them and be their friend. It's hard to get used to, but I feel super comfortable. I feel really old though!! All my classmates are 16, with a few being 17, but at first I swore that I was in a room full of 14 year olds. They definitely don't act like any of the people my age back home. And the San Pedro University is right beside (kinda the same building) and I hate looking over there and seeing a bunch of people more my age group haha aahhh. And the work's probably more interesting. BUT I shouldn't say that yet, because I've only seen the math. But isn't that the hardest course? I'll have to wait and see after next week, because this week is just a bunch of random activities and assemblies and such. Uggh such a slow pace! But I'm going to watch what I say hehe don't want it to bite me in the ass later :P Already have some "good" friends though. Here you have one classroom and the teachers alternate. The classroom (salon) itself, is very plain and white and bare and empty, with a cement floor. Yay schooool... and there's no library! It's very weird.