Toma Continues.

Tomorrow marks the 3 weeks of this toma. These kids know what they want! Apparently education used to be free, so it's not like they're fighting for something that hasn't happened before.

pajita-straw
lima de uñas- nail file
lagartos-lizard
caimanes-alligator
cocodrilo-crocidile
recoger-pick up
tres veces seguidas- 3 times in a row.
obnoxious-molesto, iritante

I was in the middle of writing this blog when Gonzalo came in...so above are the words that i learned while he was in the room.
Anyways, SO THIS TOMA....still happening! On wednesday morning, 22/6, the students of PUCV took over the PIIE office, which was where we were having our classes and walking in through our door way. I was on my way to give a presentation for art when there were a bunch of people waiting outside the door, and that's when i knew that they had taken over PIIE. Then classes were canceled for the day because they didn't have anywhere to put us.
Within the next day they had moved our classes to another building in Valpo. This was a thursday, aka another crazy day of protests, water cannons, and tear gas. I finished up a project for culture and then a group of us carefully walked our way to the classroom.

Our project. Kinda crazy but basically the idea is that we are fishermen on the boat S.S. Cachai. Chileans use the word cachai after they say something and to make sure you understood they say cachai? like did you catch it? So, we took that and then made a poster about everything that we "caught" or learned about chilean culture. and here is what we came up with. It'd be a whole blog itself to describe every part, but basically we got some fish with scarfs, obvi because chileans wear scarfs all the time. Then we have some words with some common chilean words, "weon, chao, bakan, fome" and we have some protesting sea horses. The tiny little grey no name fish represent all of the people who were killed during the dictatorship. There's lots more to it, but if you want to know more i can describe it later. :)

So after class, Amie, Natalie and I went to Amie's house to make blueberry muffins! they were amazing and it made me so excited to get home and just have all the good stuff that i have been missing! 

Friday wasn't anything special. Can't really remember what i did, but it has been beautifully sunny these last couple of days! it has been wonderful.

Chao for now.