Macaluso's Camp

Hi, on Saturday 4 I went to the “Macaluso’s camp” (where they go to the vacations) with my family and Pilar’s family. We have so much fun.
We arrived there like 2 pm. and we went to a restaurant to eat something, and then to “matterhorn” (ski center) because there were friends of my family. We stayed there like an hour, and we went back to the house, where Pilar, Bridget and her mom have just arrived to the house.
We played games (like apples to apples), went to walk and we have had an “adventure” hahahaha, took pictures and videos, etc. Then we watched “Scary Movie” 1 and 2.
Mary, Bridget, Pilar and I went to sleep an other camp (Anne’s brother, my mom)… Mary and Bridget slept in a room and Pilar and I slept in the living room. We talked a lot before to go to sleep.
The next day, our “parents” went to wake up to us (like 10 am… so early haha), so we wake up to take the breakfast and go back to home (Portland).

Sooo much fuuun ! :)

Field visits in Portland....amazing experiences !!

As Pilar said in a post before, people in Cheverus High School is so friendly, and the teachers very kind, they always offers helping you when you need them. This is very important for us and especially to improve our English. 

The first day that we (I mean Cheverus group) were here, Cheverus organized a field trip to the White Mountains. We went with the Spanish group from Cheverus, Miss Terry and Miss Pamela. We went to a beautiful big Hotel, where a woman told us about the history of the Hotel. It was very interesting  because the Hotel was very old and had a long history. Then we did TUBING in the snow, this was amazing and we spent a great time there. When we finished our time in the tubing, we went to a restorant near the Hotel to eat something. There was a toy train that Arturo really hated.... hahaha!!

We went to another two social field trips: one to the Habitat Humanity, this was a place were volunteer people goes to build houses for poor people, but because we weren't adults, and for safety reasons, we couldn't construct so we helped to put all the materials in order. The houses weren't like the houses that we construct for poor people in Chile ( Un techo para Chile), this houses were very big and hd 2 floors!!.... for us this was very impressive.

In the other social field trip we went to the Soup Kitchen, were we helped other volunteers, preparing the lunch for the poor people, and the we had serve it.  Gregorio (the person from Cheverus who organized that) divided us in different kind of work, for example Arturo and Juanjo cut the strawberries while Pilar, Elena and myself put all the yogurt in a big bowl. Miss Pamela and Matias prepared the salads.

Before we went to the Soup Kitchen we went to a public school called Cathedral School to did the presentation of Chile in an 8` grade. There the people was very friendly too and they were very interesting in Chile and our culture. After the presentation we visited the rest of the school. In the kindergarden the kids were very cute and said Hola .... ( in spanish!!)

Here we have known different and beautiful places.... but we have had also the opportunity to help people.... it has been amazing!

Sugarloaf Day

On thursday 26 we went to Sugarloaf, ski Center, with all Mc Auley Exchange Group. Miss Pamela and Miss "Dubi"also came with us. American Parents of Jose & Antonia Larranaga(2007 &2008 Exchange respectively) prepared everything for us there, they brought all the food and drinks which in fact were delicious. They also invited all of us to have dinner at a Restaurant...they were so nice and warm...
In the snow Isa, Berni, Miss Pamela and me took ski lessons with Jen , a ski instructor. We had a very nice time. After these lessons we had lunch and then went skiing with the rest of the group except Miss Pamela.
At 4:00 pm they closed the lifts and we took some pictures ...Finally, we had that amazing dinner with the Pulkkinens (Karen and Mike). Bye xoxo

In Portland, Maine

Hi,
This two weeks have been amazing, everyone here is very nice and they want to know more about us. We did the presentation last Wednesday and everyone liked it, they were really interested about Chile (specially about the pictures we put in the power point), on Thursday we (McAuley group) went skiing and we had a lot of fun (there were a lot of trees).
It is very wear that the classes are the same every day, and I don't like it because they have a lot of homeworks for the next day, but they learn more (as Pili said). I like a lot that we have to move from one class to another because you don`t have to be in the same sit all the day (and they don`t have breaks between some classes but they have 45 minutes of lunch time).
Iam having a lot of fun everything has been great.
Bernardita..

Unaone america Team

These are the faces behind Una oneamerica Exchange Program. We gathered at Breda's who is an Spanish as a Foreign Language teacher and coordinator of the program at Waynflete. You can easily identify us right?...well next to Miss Pamela, Breda White and behind her, someone you might probably know...Terry Finnerty UOA Coordinator at Cheverus HS, at the end of that line you can see McAuley's UOA coordinator her face and name also familiar to our school Miss Terrilynn Dubriel, aka Dubita, Next to me wearing a Yellow fleece Janice Ribeiro UOA coordinator for Waynflete as well. The other teachers are supporters of the program who gladly joined us for an excellent supper, Wendy Skvorak math teacher at Cheverus and Lynn Hallet Latin teacher and Head of Foreign Language Department at Waynflete.

Here in maine!!

Well i have been here for a week and has been pretty interesting. In Cheverus things are very different from Padre Hurtado and Juanita de los Andes. We have to change rooms for every class and we have the same classes every day. I think this is better because you learn more repeating the lessons every day.
People at Cheverus are very friendly, students and teachers are very excited to know more about Chile. Miss Terry has been really welcoming and glad to help us to adjust our schedules so we get classes of our interest.
Tomorrow we are having a presentation about Chile and its culture. I think this will help them understand more about the way we live (cause some of them think we don't have Tv or i-pods!LOL).
Everything is great at school (specially food) and I'm really happy of being here, even if a miss my family in Chile, but Bridget and I are having a really good time and we laugh all the time (specially when they have to tell us to be more quiet at lunch beacuse of Arturo's jokes and funny faces).
Greetings from USA!!! Pili

My new family in Maine

HI! here I am on Hannah's computer, I have finally got a room for me since her brother went back to the University. All this week has been very interesting here at Waynflete. We were celebrating Spirit Week so everyone attended school dressed in very unusual dress code.

Hannah's family, my family now, is really lovely. Mom helps me in every single thing,Dad does so too...well, and with Hannah we feel as we have known each other for months. I feel I have been lucky to have such a wonderful family. They also have a huge cat who for no reason loves me??!!!hahahahaha, they say he hates everyone except Hannah...

So far this has been in short my experience since I 've been here...

Pascuala

CPH & CJA on their exchange trip to Maine News

Have a look at this wonderful welcome!...Our kids Elena Antoine, Pascuala Sylleros, Mari Carmen Navarro, Consuelo Guinez, Pilar Ay, Catalina Escobar, Maria Jose Arellano, Maite Orueta, Bernardita Ramos, Camila Cruz, Isabel Irureta, Juan Jose Balsa, Matias Galan, Sebastian Varela y Arturo Perez together with their "american brothers and sisters"...Isn't it wonderful!!!!

This is the start of their international living  adventure...Hopefully at the end of these four weeks they will all be very close friends.