Celebrating the 4th of July and more

We started our 4th week here and students are flourishing with the language and have become comfortable with life in Chile. We had our classes and students even cooked as part of the culture class. They had a great time competing against the other groups. The other instructors were awesome judges. Today, we invited the families for a 4th of July celebration. Students had a blast dancing for the parents and hanging out. Families brought food for a great get together. It has been a great week so far.

Monday July 3rd

Theatre Class

Sports class

Tuesday July 4th

Helen came all ready in red, white and blue

Megan is very excited:

Quick dialogues using new words they have learned:

Wednesday July 5th

Cooking in Culture Class

For culture class today, students made panqueques chilenos. They learned and made their own to eat. Toward the end of class, they made one as a group and the other instructors were the judges. The categories were: Presentation, Creativity and Flavor.

Emilie made Cecy a panqueque

The judges

And the winners are...

Blue team: Most Creative

Red team: Best Presentation

White team: Best Flavor

Dance class

4th of July Celebration

Iona and her Chilean mother made a cake to help us celebrate.

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Santiago and more

To end the week, we visited the capital. Santiago is about 2 hours away, so we left early in the morning. We first visited el Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos. This museum was a look into Chile's dark history and helped contextualize some of the history they have learned. The museum does not allow pictures, so this is the one place from which you will not see pictures. We then had lunch at a park close to the museum. After lunch we headed downtown and saw La Moneda (the president's house) and walked to La Plaza de Armas (the main plaza in Santiago). To finish the day, we went to Cerro San Cristobal, where students were able to get a full view of the city. It was a great day and students enjoyed their time in Santiago. Thursday June 29 Class time, students started with a quick skit Recess time A talk about the 60's-90's in Chile Friday June 30 On our way to Santiago very early in the morning Arriving at el Mu

We Tripantu and more

Students have continued the week with classes and activities. One of the activities we did today was participating in the We Tripantu with the Mapuche people. The Mapuches are natives from Chile and today they started their celebration for the new year. The We Tripantu is an all day celebration and the students were able to witness the start of the celebration. Tuesday June 20 Students playing during break: Dance class - First review from last week then some new dances: Break from dancing to play a game: Wednesday June 21 We arrived in Valparaiso for the We Tripantu: Waiting at a café before the celebration: We Tripantu: A little game of Mafia during break: Singing time:

Weekend excursion

We have arrived from our weekend excursion to the north. We left Friday morning and headed to La Serena where our hotel was located. After a 6 hour bus ride, we arrived at the hotel. After checking in, we spent the afternoon at the beach which was 2 blocks away. After a fun afternoon at the beach, we headed back to our hotel and each group cooked something for a great dinner to finish the day. The following day we woke up very early and headed to Tololo, one of the most famous observatories. The view was incredible. After a tour and some time with the amazing view, we went to a restaurant where the food is cooked with solar energy. We spent the afternoon in the town of Vicuña. Students had time to walk around before dinner. After dinner we headed to Mamalluca, another observatory where students were able to see starts, Jupiter and Saturn. Because of the dark and not being allowed to use flash, we were not able to get pictures. For our last day, we woke up and headed to a Japan

Viña del Mar (IUHPFL) 2017

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