first chilean snow day, EVER!

So it was my first hour yesterday, musica, and everyone was taking a test. I was drawing a picture (it was very pretty), when someone runs up to the doors, opens it and yells something. Then before i knew it , everyone was running to the door! I was sure there was a fire or something so i followed. Then my desk mate said ¨SNOW! NIEVE!¨For the first time basically EVER it snowed in Curicó! Most of my compañeros had never seen snow except on the mountains. They were SO exciting and ran out to see the snow. Of course, being from minnesota, i wasnt too excited but it was fun to watch.

The next break between classes (we have 15 minutes), we all ran outside and threw snowballs and froze to death basically. It was so much fun. Nobody went back to class for an hour and then they just told us we could go home. The teachers were so excited too! I have no clue why it snowed but that shows you just how cold it is here. It was 35 degrees in my class today! yay?

The snow outside of our balcón:

Then, after they let us out of school, my host dad and i went to get my identification in the freezing cold. They told us I needed special pictures so i couldnt get it. So then, we walked to the photo place and took pictures, they´re HORRIBLE. But hey, first chilean snow day EVER! this way i´ll remember it.

After lunch, Fani, her friends edo, and I went to see the Simpson´s movie, in spanish. I actually understood the majority of the words! It was very funny, i liked it a lot.After the movie we went and explored old theaters and buildings in the centro which was wicked fun but i dont have any pictures. Stupid lura forgot her camera.

Fani and I then went home for Onces. Which brings me to another point. Chile has a really cool transportation system. There are migros (buses) but they are smaller and SUPER comfortable, almost like sofas. And they only cost about 250 pesos which is about 50 cents. Only 100 pesos if you have a student card, which i dont yet. They also have escolares which are yellow vans that transport kids to school because we dont have school buses. But, what i love the most are collectivos. They are small, black, toyotas which are just like buses in the way that they have a spcific path- i live on rauquen so there is a collectivo for rauquen- but you can wave them from anywhere on the street! And then you just tell them where you want to get off and they pull ovr and letyou out. All for 70 cents!

Back to my day..... after onces, my host mom, fani and I went to a women´s club thing and they tried to teach me the cueca (chilean national dance). I have to know it because in a month, all the girls in the school go in front of everyone and do the cueca in these big fancy dresses. Anyways, it is so hard because it requires a certain style of movement which i cant seem to master. And you have to do the whole thing while twirling these scarf things in your hand which is excedingly difficult. So, at home I practive twirling but it´s not going all that well.

Tomorrow´s friday! gotta go! love ya all!

oh and this picture is an old one from Santiago but it has the Andes mountains in the background. I can see them in curicó but not from my house. I can see them biking to school though: