Our second week of classes

Our second week of classes in Waynflete have been really good. Now we know where ours classes are in the different buildings and it is normal to see a classmate eating in classes or standing up to go to the bathroom without asking the teacher. Also, now we can speak in English and understand everyone!
Our classes are so different to the ones that we use to have in Chile. For example, I have Literature of Vietnam and History of Japan.

We have been in many activities. On Wednesday we have been in “pachanga” with the little kids. They sang different songs in Spanish, while some teachers and the director of the school played the guitar. Also we went to the Museum of Art with the others Chileans. We have a guide who tells us all about the pictures and their authors and then we go to Starbucks. We had a really good time!

All the girls slept in Liza Hall’s house and the boys in the Hallet’s house. We arrived on Friday and we have dinner at the Hallet’s house. On Saturday morning we woke up very early to go skiing and snowboarding. We had a break at 12 to have lunch and then we continued until 4. We had a really good time!

Our first days in Waynnflete

Our first week on Portland was amazing. We had had many grateful experiences. Let’s start with our school, Waynflete. It’s so different and small (they are 500 students), everyone knows each other and they are all friends. Our classes have like 10 or 15 students and they are from all ages, we sit in circles with the teacher sitting on your site; also in each class you have a projector and in some of them you can use Mac books. The school it’s a labyrinth, more than one of us got lost, but the people here it’s so friendly that you can found your class soon. It’s really funny because everyone speaks to us, even if they don’t know us. The bests things of Waynflete, after the people, are that you can eat and drink whatever you want in classes!, that you came here without uniform and if you want to go to the bathroom you can just go.

On Tuesday with Felipe and Jose Tomas we played a basketball championship, we had a great time but we lost in our first game.

We had two tours. The first one was on Wednesday and we went to Bates, this is a really cool college. We had three guides, two of them spoke English. It was a great tour and we also ate a lot. The second tour was on Friday, we went to a place where they built big boats and then we went to a museum on Rockland.

Now I will talk about my family. They are so nice! I have two sisters, Caitlin and Elena, and my father, Cesar, and my mother Cathleen. Cesar it’s from Argentina, so they are similar to us. They are always worried abut me, they took

me everywhere, they give me really good food and they gives me a lot of affection.

I think that everyone has learned a lot of English. We still have some troubles with this language, but that’s not a problem because we are here to learn.

Summarizing, we had had a really great time and I know that this it’s just the beginning…

The first picture is in the airport when we arrived, I am with Allyson!! :). And in the second picture appears Antonia, Consuelo, Esperanza, Josefina, Catalina and me (Camila), is in the "mall" of McAuley, it's a room where you can lunch or meet with other people.

My experience in the first week as a foreign exchange student.McAuley is just great!!!

One week has just passed full of many new experiences without noticing it...
I am going to start talking about the most important: My family. I can't be more grateful!. They are 3: My sister Allyson (she is an 18 year old only child ) and my parents Mike and Lynn who are very very very nice and sweet!!, they are always very worried about me, if I need something, etc. And also they are a lot of fun!..they invent a thousand activities for me, they facilitate everything to me ... we have cooked (cookies, caramel apples, etc ..), they have given me many presents, have taken me to many places ... etc. And I still have many things for doing, knowing, trying, learning ...! Well at the end! everything is new and incredible!. I am very happy!, they make me feel as part of their family... they are really incredible.

Catherine McAuley - high school is an incredible school!!. For us everything is new: let's start talking about the schedule (one of the things that I am impressed) we have the same subjects every day, we don't have breaks (except for a long period to have lunch at 11 am.), the classes can be of 8 students and they are not necessarily the same age!, This is because they are more personal and in this way they learn faster ... so it is very good!. Each of us have different schedules, some have subjects such as mathematics and history ... and others have relaxing subjects like English, gym, art, theatre, etc...I like the fact that they have many possibilities of classes (they have to choose them), and the best thing is that to all these classes have the same importance ... You just have to see the classrooms! ... the room of art, theatre or the gym!, they are incredible ..!. But the most important for me and what more pleases me of the school is the people, they are all very nice!, they always have a smile in their face!, they try to speak in spanish with you, etc. I'm very happy here, everything is incredible.

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First days at Portland

Our first days in Portland can be summarized with one word: SNOW. Snow is everywhere and makes of this a beautiful (and cold) city. The People freom Portland are very friendly.
These 3 days have been very funny. School is very different from Chile and we have been very welcomed. We are starting to feel like home (we miss some things of Chile as well).

See you

CJA Girls and CPH Boys Leaving for USA next March 15...

Two of the families who are sending one of their kids to the amazing adventure of Una One America Exchange Program run by the English High School Department at CPH- CJA : The Grez-Binimelis & The Garcia - Tellechea ...
The Grez- Binimelis Family is sending Mª Esperanza (Pita)the youngest daughter, but Mª José and Eduardo, had lived the experience as well in 2001, 2006 respectively.

The list this year includes:

Agustín Fernández - Camila De Larraechea - Josefina Morel - Consuelo Yañez - Felipe Irureta - Mª Jesús Sepúlveda - Catalina O'Ryan - Antonia Larrañaga - Ignacio Montegu - Felipe Rojas - José Tomás Díaz - Paula Barbano - Agustín Antoine - Felipe García - Octavio Bofill - & - Mª Esperanza Grez

They are visiting Cheverus, Waynflete & McAuley in Portland Maine.