Friday, March 30, 2012
Ruebella Scare
My host family thought I had Ruebella because I had a wierd rash all over my arms for about 4 days and I fainted at school. Turns out I just had an allergic reaction to something....maybe. I guess we´ll never know because now I feel great liek nothing happened, but I got to miss school for 4 days.
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
mediocre
I guess this part if the exchange is called ¨Culture learning¨, the part where your over the shock of being in another country, you know the language, your well adjusted and now you live a life of in my case, a Bolivian. So I go to school everyday, weekends I hang out with friends, pretty much do normal things and get into my routine. since up until now i never had a routine and everything was always crazy.
I guess I´ll address the school topic. So, Private school, must be fancy? Nope. Its worse than my public school in the states, the classrooms are dirty and vandalized by many years of seniors, the halls flood every time it rains, the food is cheap, theonly thing its got going for it is its high ranking among other private schools here, although the students at Franco Boliviano school are not well known for their academic achievements or outstanding leadership, more like they are known to be spoiled children who´s parents drive them to school in Hummers and buy them blackberrys when they are 10 years old. I don´t really have anything in common with the girls in my class, they seem to all be the same, they wear the same clothes, the go to the same clubs, they enjoy all the same things, its hard to really connect with them. There is one girl named Belen who likes the alternative music I like and all the classic movies I´ve seen and we get a long great. She is an amazing artist and we pass notes in class with hilarious drawings and we just have a great time. As far as academics its kind of take it or leave it, the smart kids who plan on going to college in the states or in another country really try hard but many of the students slack off and use their blackberrys and iPhones to cheat on tests and just slide their way through school.
Sorry for dissing on my school so much (for those of you who would yell at me about it). It really is a great place and I´m so grateful I get to experience a private school in Bolivia, its just SO different and there are many things I don´t care for. You eaither love Franco or you hate it and thats just the way it is.
I guess I´ll address the school topic. So, Private school, must be fancy? Nope. Its worse than my public school in the states, the classrooms are dirty and vandalized by many years of seniors, the halls flood every time it rains, the food is cheap, theonly thing its got going for it is its high ranking among other private schools here, although the students at Franco Boliviano school are not well known for their academic achievements or outstanding leadership, more like they are known to be spoiled children who´s parents drive them to school in Hummers and buy them blackberrys when they are 10 years old. I don´t really have anything in common with the girls in my class, they seem to all be the same, they wear the same clothes, the go to the same clubs, they enjoy all the same things, its hard to really connect with them. There is one girl named Belen who likes the alternative music I like and all the classic movies I´ve seen and we get a long great. She is an amazing artist and we pass notes in class with hilarious drawings and we just have a great time. As far as academics its kind of take it or leave it, the smart kids who plan on going to college in the states or in another country really try hard but many of the students slack off and use their blackberrys and iPhones to cheat on tests and just slide their way through school.
Sorry for dissing on my school so much (for those of you who would yell at me about it). It really is a great place and I´m so grateful I get to experience a private school in Bolivia, its just SO different and there are many things I don´t care for. You eaither love Franco or you hate it and thats just the way it is.
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