almost legal in Chile (jueves, 7 octubre)

When I got back to school, all of my 5th and 6th grade classes were combined with the classes of another teacher who had called in sick. Basically I felt like I was baby-sitting the class instead of teaching them since there were at least 40 kids in each section. It was pretty funny because two of the boys in 6th grade were pretending to fight, and one boy actually grabbed the other kid´s arm and hit himself with it and then said, ´Did you see what he just did?´ It was hard to not laugh at this. A lot of times I feel like a bad teacher in some ways because the kids do or say things that are actually pretty funny, and we´re not supposed to laugh at them.

After school I went running and then tried to plan a little bit of my trip to Bolivia.

This morning I had to meet up with the regional coordinator and other volunteers to go to the International Police to get my visa papers. I got my photo taken for my Chilean visa and carnet, and then we went to the Registro Civil where they took more mug shots and fingerprints. By the time all of that was over, there was no point in going back to school because I only had one of my classes left that day, and by the time I got back to school it would be half over. I walked around the Centro with Liz and Eric for a while and then hung out at Eric´s apartment. After that I walked along the beach and took some pictures. I met up with Ernesto and we went to get my bus ticket to La Paz. When I got home I hardly had any time to take a shower, get everything packed into my backpack, and go back to the bus station.

Now off to La Paz for the weekend....!

written by  Sara Florecita on October 7, 2010 from Iquique, Chile
from the travel blog: año de dos inviernos (Chile 2010)
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