My Other Californian

Today I took a break from running and woke up early to go to school with Fran so she could take her school pictures. While they were taking the school pictures, I stood behind the photographer and took pictures with Fran's phone for Fran. Everything was normal until the photographer said something in Spanish that I couldn't understand and all the kids laughed and left the room. I don't know what was going on so I just sort of stood their next to the photographer hoping that everything was okay. All of a sudden, one of the boys ran into the room and twirled around in one of the burgundy uniform skirts. Behind him came all the other boys in the class wearing the uniform skirts, and all the girls wearing the boys pants! I was laughing so hard, and when they saw me laughing they laughed even harder. Everyone was laughing! 

After that, we went home and ate lunch and just sort of hung out for a while. I like hanging out with Fran. She makes being bored fun hahah. At about 4:00pm we took a cab to the other side of Rancagua to meet Alex, the other exchange student from California. Alex is sooo sweet and so much better than me at Spanish! I am so glad that she is in Rancagua with me, and I am glad that all the people she will meet in Chile will have her as their first impression of the California; she makes us look good! Alex, her brother Cristobal, Fran, and I hung out for hours. We talked and laughed and had such an amazing time. Tomorrow we are all going to the movies together. I like these people a lot.  

When we got home, I discovered that the tailor had finished working on my uniform. I was so excited that I had to try it on. I had such a great day today and I can't wait for tomorrow! It's so easy to be optimistic in Chile, hahahah.