Even after spending an amazing week at the Rio Fuy in Choshenco getting away from the rain and back to the sun and the heat was great. These past few days have been a nice change of pace for everyone, with the parents arriving and everyone tired from long days at the Fuy. The teachers decided to change to half days of school for the remaining time here in Pucon. Giving the students and teachers time to relax and more time on the water. On an academic note, after 3 weeks of working on our puppet show “Caperucita Roja” aka Little Red Ridding Hood, in our Spanish 3 class, we finally got to present it to the rest of the students, teachers and families. Lorenzo has the perfect scary wolf voice, kyle pulled off the squeaky girly voice of little red ridding hood without laughing to much. David Gorski had two characters, one as the narrator and the other as the brave woodcutter who saves the day. Taylor was the voice of the caring mother and I was the voice of sweet little old Granny. After the puppy show, Mr Hughes had the wonderful idea of playing a game of spoons with everyone including the parents. Gosh I love that game and got way to hyper playing it. Clay and I dominated to say the least, without getting any letters while Kyle was the first to go, Matt Smink fallowed shortly after. For leader ship class this past week, we’ve been working on making systems for everything here at the base so everything can run a little more smoothly which we presented to the rest of the students 2 days ago. I was really excited when my parents arrived with my camera so I could finally start taking some pictures in photo class. Our assignment for the day we did classes in town was to take life style shoots. Which involved sometimes asking people if you could take their pictures or just snapping a few photos without them knowing. Then the next photo class we had to get our best pictures together and show them to the class, we would talk about each one and Matt would tell us what he liked about it and also how we could improve it to make it a stronger picture next time. Yesterday Callie, Tracy and Jess had their mentor activity. First the ladies made dessert which was a chocolate fondue with fruit then once we cleaned up the Quincho and Taylor cleaned her face we all piled into the Tahoe and headed to the hot springs for a couple of hours. This morning while most of the students decided to take full advantage of their time to sleep in a few of the students got up to do a morning workout kayak session till regular morning working started at 9:30. Then periods 4 threw 7 then to the rio. While I opted out of kayaking today to spend the last afternoon/ evening with my parents before they leave tomorrow morning. It’s been great having them around for a week. It’s nice to be able to share my experiences with my parents who make it possible for me to travel to awesome places like Chile.
- Katie Kowalski
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- Tracy and I when we went out to lunch with my parents.
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- Tracy, Jess and I in the Quincho before the Puppet show
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- Me in my gypsy cabin. <3
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- The Kowalskis !
