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I) ONE WEEK ON USA:

In this first week on the US I can say that Chile and USA have a lot of differences, like the lunch time, school hours, the respect to each other, etc. Fore example Chilean people used to have lunch at 1.30 - 2.00pm and Americans used to have lunch earlier like at 11.00 - 11.30, and also they eat the double of food than Chileans. My first impression of the American people is that every take care to each other, they have their own space something different of Chile because we used to invade the space of others and every smiles and says hi! in the hallways. Also the classes here are more interesting than in Chile, here every student is in silence when the teacher is talking and in my classes at my school the teachers have to make silence more than one or twice to do the class or for start it.

II) WEEKENDS: The weekends that I have in Chile are differents that here. Usually on Fridays after the school I go with my friends to wacht a movie in the cinema or in someone else house. On Saturdays in the afternoon I do my homework, with my family we used to have a big lunch with all my cousins, aunts, uncles and grandfathers (the parents of my mom); in the night sometimes I go out to a party or a friends house. Finally on Sundays my family and I used to go to the church in the morning and have lunch with my grandmother ( the mother of my dad), and we spent the afternoon in her house. If is a long weekend sometimes we go to the beach or some place near to Santiago. Here I have had too much fun on the week and also in the weekends. Last weekend Emily and I went to Boston for shopping, it was windy but however we spend a nice time there. Also in the other weekends I went to playing bowling with the other chileans that families of Cheverus and Mc Auley school are hosting, I went to the cinemas, and other places too. I DON'T WANNA LEAVE PORTLAND!

III) THIRD WEEK: Third week and everything is getting normal for now, and every day I'm loving more and more Waynflete. On Wednesday Nicolas, Ignacio, Trini and I went to have lunch with Peter and Ryan. On Friday we don't have school again, because was a snowy day and all the schools in Maine were closed. On Saturday all the Chileans went to have dinner with our american families and I try the lobster of Trini, I don't like it a lot but i'm sure that Trini loved it! Then Emily and I went to see a scary movie at home with Emma. And finally on Saturday we spent the afternoon with Erica ( a friend of Emily) and I talk with my family by skype because was the birthday of my brother and every one were there in my house, so they ask me too many questions and they scream a lot because they were so excited.

IV) LAST WEEK ON PORTLAND: Monday, I can't believe that I'm leaving on Saturday, I feel that I arrived just yesterday, for dinner I made "empanadas" for Robinson family. In the afternoon I went to the mall for shopping with Trini and we meet there with another chileans girls that are staying with families of Mc Auley High school. On Wednesday we visit Bates with Breda, and the chileans teaches Alicia and Eduardo, we have a great time visiting it. On Thursday we start presenting the power points to show to students of middel school something about Chile. Today the last day!! Really I don't want to leave, I made many friends and Emily is like a sister to me. I love Waynflete, it have a really good program of spanish so everyone that want to go to Chile or some palce in southamerica or to Spain go ahead you can do it, you don't have nothing to lose.