Week of Journaling: Day 2

I just returned home and am feeling a bit put out. I was really looking forward to soccer, but it turned out that there was a game today and I wasn't able to play (I would never expect to play after going to a single practice, but I had been excited for the workout!) That said, I did meet a few more of the girls on the team, and rest of the day has been quite good. I woke up early to buy clay to use when I make it to ceramics after my video class. Then I headed to the campus to have lunch with my tandem/language partner Gerson. It was fun, and I got to eat with a bunch of his friends too! Video class was very short today, but I got a personal lesson from the professor about the different ways to shoot a documentary. He offered to teach me documentary making instead of doing photo sequences like the rest of the class, since they already worked on final cut pro before this and I would like to learn it. It's so nice to get such personal attention in this class! I am also getting to know the other three students, and they actually invited me out for drinks this Thursday! I feel like that's a good social step for me. Unfortunately, I am going to work with Nuestra Casa in La Vega that night, but I am hoping we can go some other time. My neighbor also recently offered that he could show me around Santiago Centro sometime. It's so nice to find that people are actually reaching out to me! I am often the one to try to initiate things and talk to people, but it is much harder when I am the new student and also don't speak the language perfectly, so it's great that others are making the effort!

We just had a delicious squash, bean, and sausage soup for dinner. I am starting to get used to eating at 10 or 11 at night! It's lucky that people eat so late here, because by the time I get back from soccer on the micro with all of the traffic, it is usually at least 8:30.

I'm off to try to upload some pictures! I have a bunch, so I'm uploading to a picasa album:

http://picasaweb.google.com/108594640188694136506/AdventuresInChile?authkey=Gv1sRgCPHu-4je3O-9xQE#

Enjoy!