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.
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Beautiful. Bravo! Bravo! Me gusta mucho estas palabras que has escrito. Estas hablando de la verdad. Por fin una vista a tu vida que yo esperaba. Bravo! Bravo!. Que linda tus palabras. - Ahora dinos los pensamientos de la pobreza que ves cuando vayas a la escuela y espero que tu te encuentres pensando tanta suerte que tengas que tu eres de los EE.UU. Adiós, mi friend!
ReplyDeleteTio Sam
Finally good to read that you are writing from a grounded place.
ReplyDeleteI would love for you act on your thoughts now. NOW is your change to do something meaningful while you are down there. Befriend one of those people you see on your way to school - who live in dire poverty. Gift your time and say hello or get to know what they need? Maybe you have the knowledge to make a link for them, better their life in some small way. Don't give em money, but forge a real relationship with someone in genuine way. Reach out beyond your school & home life and maybe thru Rotary, to a clinic, shelter that serves the indigenous folks. I want to read that you made a difference in someones life on your exchange. Sending my love. - and a camera so you can take a photo of you making a difference. Your true nature is shining now.
S.