Ohh, Chile

That is a sentence I utter frequently. Two words, and they can mean A BILLION things depending on the intonation.

"OHhh, Chile." A loving sigh.
"OHHH CHILE!" Excited to see what's around the corner.
"Ohhhh ho ho ho, Chile..." Slightly disgusted, taken aback
or
"Ohhhhh, Chile...." Minorly exasperated, but mostly amused. Today (this week...) has been a lot of numero cuatro.

Classes are ending, finals are beginning. Okay, mejor dicho: Classes are ending, finals SHOULD be beginning.... Let's do a rundown of my classes:

Historia moderna de chile: Our other two tests have been in-class essays. We have to write either two or three essays, which need to be pretty long and developed. Makes it hard to get an amazing score, since there isn't too much time. Granted, it is open notes, but that almost makes it harder since he KNOWS everything that you could be including. So for this exam, we convinced him (or really we just asked him) to give us the questions beforehand. Thus, tonight I will write all but one of the essays, so I only have to write one in class tomorrow. Wahoo!
Cuentos contemporaneos: Meh, no big surprises here. Still need to turn in my anthology on Monday.
Psicologia de la adolescente: Profesora let me use my dictionary on our final today. SCORE HUGE!!
Historia de la memoria colectiva: Haha I love this story. Okay, so we were supposed to have a test in October. But it never happened. And instead, we got a take-home essay. So we were supposed to have another test tomorrow, but with all the crazy scheduling conflicts between the rotating professors for the class, it was cancelled. So now I have one grade for this class. Hmm... And it's not that great of a grade. BUT AT LEAST I'm done with this class.

So, with all this mind, I go to my grammar class this afternoon where I had to make up an exam that I missed during my Patagonia adventure. (Sidenote: Profe had already decided to not give one of the exams. Again, another take home thing. Much easier. Mejor) So we walk into class, and profe has forgotten the pruebas.... Sarah decides to ask him if we can just have our first quiz count twice, and not even take the second quiz. I giggled a little bit as she did this, thinking "HOW IN THE WORLD WOULD A PROFESSOR AGREE TO THIS?!"

Then I remembered. I'm in Chile. He said yes.



Ohhhhh Chile......












PS!! I just found out that I got into a program in Ecuador this May!!!!!! So as I complain about living in a foreign country... I'm about to do it again!