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.

OFF WE GO!!!! 2009 TRIP

From September 1st until October 3rd, we'll be encouraging students to participate in the selection process for the next exchange trip to Portland, Maine...
Personal experience is the best advertisement you can have to visualize what comes out of this school project!!!!... You are very welcomed to read what students have to say about it...
After doing that... if you want to apply for it, read all the information contained in the Application Requirement Section of the Blog... Download the files and present them in a folder to the English High School Department (Miss Cecilia Gambino).

We'll be waiting for you....

An amazing experience!

One of the things that everyone is asking me is if I would like go again to this Exchange program.
And of course that I would like do again all the things that I have just done! The 6 weeks was a really incredible experience!... I am thinking about a month ago, and one of the things that I am most impressed with it’s how is the people in Portland. I am talking about my family, how they can be very generous and worried with a girl who they don’t know??... Since the first day in the airport of Portland that they are with me like if I was another daughter and another sister.
To explain a little more about how they are, I am going to talk about my Easter. We went to Massachusetts to the house of her grandparents, I was very nervous because I don’t know all her family and maybe I could be a little extra there! But all was complete different, her family can’t be more sweet!!. There they celebrated very different than in Chile, like a big party!, with big gifts (not only chocolates!!)… and with a big meal!. I made many things too: I cooked, I painted eggs, and I had to found my Easter basket! The most impressive thing is how they were with me, all the family gave to me many presents!!, all specially the grandparents were very worried about me… they said to me: I only want that you feel like in house!!!... And the grandparent when I was leaving his house, he gave to me a bill of 2 dollars with all the name of the family there, so with that I can remember them!. The Allyson’s family is amazing, I am going to miss them very much, especially Allyson she was a great person and “sister” with me.
Well, this weekend show how was the people in Portland, and in the School (McAuley) too, all the girls were very nice!.. they gave to us present’s when we leaved, and we still talking!!! We made a lot of real friends!! Really, this month in Portland was an amazing experience, where I lived and learned a lot of things!!
About the last 2 weeks: The 3 places were incredible, we saw many different things!... but one of the things that I am most happy is the group, I am only going to say that it was amazing. I am very happy with had know all the people that before we aren’t friends and now be closer with all of them!!.

I absolutely recommended trip!

Exchange 2008

This Exchange program was an amazing experience, I love the way that the program show us the live of a family who have another culture and it make us get, for a month, in the life of that family, an take other points of view, that’s make us grow and have personal opinion, we lived different experiences and with them we could realised that the way we live it’s not the only, and it’s make you to accept more the differences too.

We all were so nervous when we arrived to Portland, the moment to know your family had came. But when the time passed the relation with my family was so good, they were and still being, so nice with me, they are a really friendly family, all the time they were worried about me, they asked me if I was comfortable or if it was anything that I wanted to do.
We passed really good times together.

In the school all the girls were really nice with us; they wanted to know more about us, so most of them invited us to her classes, it was really cool. The school was different, the students had to choose her own schedules, and they had the same schedules in all the week, just the period of the classes changed, and also they had to move all the time to a different room; sometimes they could be in the same room with a senior or a junior, they are all mix together, so they know each other with all the students of the school. I like the school because most of the students were different and they did´t care.

The time passed so fast and the four weeks had end, we had to say good bye to our families and let our routine in Maine, it was really sad, because we know that we are not going to come back, and we were having so much fun in there, but the tour were coming!.

All the tour was very fun, but I think that Boston it’s the best city that we visited, I really like it.
New York it’s really fun you will never get bored in there, all the museums, the building were amazing, just walking you have fun because there are a lot of different people.
Washington it’s a quit city, really secure; the best thing that we saw in Washington was the museum of the Holocaust; it was amazing I can say that it’s the best museum that I had saw.

In general we had an amazing month and a half, all the time that we passed was really fun, the people that you know, the differences, the places, it’s a really good experience and I am very glad to have gone to this trip.

María Esperanza Grez