Today my parents and Fran took me to buy my school uniform. Walking around downtown Rancagua was exciting but difficult because I kept losing track of my family and wandering off with strangers! We bought some school clothes and then went to get my uniform skirt tailored because it was too big. After that we went looking for school shoes. We looked in so many stores for the shoes that all of Fran's friends wear, because Fran wants me to fit in at school, but we didn't find any today. Before coming to Chile, people who had been here in the past told me that there are stray dogs everywhere in Chile. It's true! But when I imagined stray dogs, I imagined gross looking and starving dogs. The dogs here are not like that! They are adorable actually. You will be walking down the street and a golden retriever will just trot on by like everything is normal. The dogs even go in the malls! It's like the dogs are just more residents of Chile, and they have their own houses and go shopping when they want to. I find this hilarious, hahah.
This evening, after dinner (or "once"), I went to the house of one of Fran's friends named Elisa. Eight of us sat around a table and ate chips and talked and laughed. We played drinking games with soda, or at least they did. I couldn't really understand what was going on because everyone spoke so fast and loud! I had so much fun, though. Just listening is fun for me, and watching them laugh makes me happy. I can't wait till I can speak Spanish well enough to talk and laugh with them! Every once in a while one of them would ask me a question, and the room would get super quiet as I struggled to find the words to answer them. I like having Fran with me because whenever I am confused she knows how to explain things to me. When I am with Fran I know that someone is there to make sure I am okay, and it's really nice - she is like an actual big sister to me! But even without Fran I would be happy with these people because all of her friends are SO nice. Hahah, whenever I try to speak in Spanish it's like they play a guessing game and try to finish the sentences that I don't know how to finish! Fran told them I have a blog and now they are all reading it. Fran said that her friend Dani spent hours trying to translate it into Spanish. They are all sooooo sweet. Also, did you know that Fran is an AMAZING artist? Today she showed me a bunch of drawings she has done and they are absolutely incredible!She even gave me this one:
Fran is so great! Fran's friends are so great! Chile is so great! :)
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