PANDEMIC, just incase you didnt know.

June 15, 2009

So, I have realized that I have been lacking in the last two weeks in updating my blog.  I am really sorry for that between so much homework and lack of internet I haven’t been able to.

First and foremost, Venezuela has H1N1 and the town next to us has had a reported case.  So I am really curious to see what will happen.  The governor has closed down all the dance clubs on the weekend (a huge bummer for me) and there have been other changes too.  I know some people are worried about re-entering the US because customs is suppose to be getting tighter, not to the point that they are putting out thermal sensors but a lot stricter.  The WHO also declared a pandemic this week.  I might have to start watching the map again.

School is going good, its hard to believe that I have 2 weeks of school left (for this session) and less than two months left in Venezuela.  So who ever told me study aboard would be a walk in the park, the must have been joking.  It’s not so much that it is hard it’s just a ton of busy work but I guess they have to grade us on something.  In my geography class two thirds of the time is spent on talk about current events, our families or Hugo Chavez.  My geography teacher is probably the biggest fan of Chavez that I have met in Venezuela so far, it’s pretty interesting. I liked my lit class a lot this week because I got to read two short stories from two of my favorite Latin American writers, Gabriel García Marquez and Juan Rulfo.  My politics class I have slowly become the go to person for any historical facts.  It’s nice to know that all my Latin American classes have paid off.  My teacher has started calling me Senorita Mexicana, since he has slowly learned that I like/know a lot about Mexican history.

Outside of school I have just been up to the normal jumping off mountains, getting my ticket to Argentina and hanging out with friends.  Pretty normal stuff I would say.  Paragliding was a lot more peaceful than I thought it would be. I had some vision in my head before I went that it would soaring through the mountains but really it was more like floating.  I have some pictures and a video on facebook if anyone hasn’t seen it, but I think my family has been in so much shock that I did it that they are showing everyone.

I got my ticket for Argentina at the amazing price of 450 dollars. So my friend Madeline and I are planning our trip.  Ill be in Argentina for 9 days, which one of those will be spent in Uruguay.  We are also hoping to go to a soccer game.

This weekend I spent most of the time hanging out with my friends who will be leaving in two weeks.  It was a lot of fun, I hope people from the next session are going to be as cool as them.  Tomorrow I am going to go see Terminator, I am super excited for that.  Monday nights are student nights, so it will cost a little over 1 dollar to see it.

I hope you all are having an amazing start to the summer, next entry should be more interesting since it will be after my trip to Los Llanos.  I’m not going to say anything about, but I think this trip will be pretty interesting.