August 28th, 2010

my mom told me i needed to update my blog, so this is me with my updated life haha.

we are having issues pulling out money for the rotary, but i think its because we are trying to pull out 300 dollars in pesos which is about 1200 pesos, so i think the machines brain hurts when i try to do that, so tomorrow we are going to try for the 3rd time ha.

a girl from wyoming lives about 40 minutes away in another town called bragado, and i think she is going to come over sunday so she can see chivilcoy and we can trade stories of our headaches trying to learn spanish. no matter what we are doing we go to bed no earlier then 3am, we eat dinner at 10 or later every night its pretty great.

i went into town with a guy a met from canada my first night here a few days ago, we drank some mate then walked around and window shopped because neither of us wanted to spend money, then we went and ate some torta (cake) and it was so good. not as good as my sister julias cake but it was pretty awesome. then we rode around on his mo ped thing and he showed me the town and it was all really cool and pretty. i met his parents, they both grew up here but his mom has an american accent. they told me if i ever needed help or anything they would be there because not many people speak english here so that was nice.

i had my first rotary meeting that night, and thank god mery went with me or i would have been soooo lost ha. they all dont speak any english, but all we did was eat and listen to them talk about raising money for a baby boy wiht a heart condition. i donated 5 pesos and they all thought i was an angel or something it was nice. i got my first monthly allowance which is 150 pesos that night too. the food was amazing, we had meat empanadas, salad, and asado beef and chicken. then vanilla gelato wiht dulce de leche in the middle and chocolate on the outside. :) i have two counslers named juan, i say juan numero uno and juan numero dos because i dont know their last names (apellidos).

friday morning we had to get up and go meet my teachers at my school, they wrote some sort of document stating that i will get credit or something i dont know there were 5 people speaking spanish at once so i didnt really follow the whole conversation. then we went to a volleyball school and signed me up for the team. i have practice on tuesdays and thursdays from 7 to 8 but from what i understood i can stay til 9 if i want? i dont know. and we dont have to pay for a while to make sure i like it and want to play for them or wahtever which was pretty cool, i will let you know how practice goes. i start volleyball the same day i start school...tuesday, so i will be soo tired on tuesday. so i will let you know after tuesday ha.

then i came home and ate some lunch that julia made that was awesome then napped for a while, then mery and i went to her school to see our friends and i was like a celebrity. the teacher pretty much quit teaching and spent 2 hours talking to me in spanish and allowing the class to talk to me too. they all had so many quesitons and they said i was speaking spanish very well whcih was cool, and when i didnt know how to say something i had mery there to help. :) then when school got out, mery, carla, carmela, corii and i went back to merys house for mate and churros where they made fun of my accent and we talked about school and things. then we left and went shopping for some little accesories and we decided we were gonna go out to dinner and have a friends night.

so mery and i went home and got ready and we left for dinner around ten. it was me, javier, mery, carla, and corii. we ate at this place i dont remember the name, i have pictures i will post on picasa and facebook, but the pizza was AWESOME! mmmm then we got the bill and we were all going to split it but they made me not pay because i am foreign haha. then we went and got dessert at the same place i got the cake with nick the canadian ha, and we were there for maybe an hour. then javii left and we walked around for a while until carlas boyfriend picked her up, then javii came and got mery corii and i and we went back to his house and drank mate with his friends rodii and brunoo :) we drank mate and listened to music and talked until 330am. they asked me how to say things in english and i spent about 7 hours of that day speaking spanish so i was on a roll ha. i found out rodiis birthday is the 10th of november and he is 16 too, so mine is the 5th, his is the 10th, and katies is the 15th. party month!! :) then coriis parents came and picked us up and we finally came home and crashed.

and today i woke up with no voice. i sound like a man. i thinik it is from being so tired, and julia thinks it is also because i am stressing my voice to speak spanish so it is exhausted. i was going to go to a birthday party tonight with everyone but now i am jut going to hang out with julia and watch a movie or something. :) i need a few days of r and r but i doubt i will get it here, these people are loco!! haha

mery leaves monday for wyoming, and that is the latest update from the life of aubrey. i will domy best to write one at least once a week, so please be patient with me, i am very busy haha.

i miss you all and love you all lots
un beso grande :)
chau

aubrey