The New Kid

  So today was my first full day of school. I woke up bright and early, before the sun even came up! Threw on my lovely forest green uniform, had my desayuno,and walked the three blocks to school with my father.
 For those who are curious what my uniform actually looks like it consists of green sweat pants, a white pollo shirt with the school emblem and green stripped collar, a green vest and because so many places are poorly heated here a green vest. Essentially I look like a big tall green blob and to be honest I like it. The uniform is comfy and takes only a matter of mere minuets to put on. There is also a skirt combination but I don't have the green tights for that at the moment and it is a little cold for a skirt! I would of never would of wanted to wear a uniform in high school but now I think its rather nice!
  As soon as I walked in the door the I was once again greeted with welcoming faces. I tried to ask where I could sit and a girl quickly pointed to the desk smashed between her and another girl. I quickly took me seat and the kids, mostly girls, slowly surrounded me asking me a few questions, all in english thankfully! Questions like: Do you know spanish? Where do you live? When did you get here? Where is Ohio? Tienies novio? All the important stuff.
  Then we had our first class antropologia, with father Alexander who doubles as the president of the school. The girls around me quickly tell me that they had a test the other day and they did horrible on it and all they do in that class is takes notes. And sure enough father Alexander passed back the notes scolded a little bit, laughed a little more and began talking what to me was rapid Spanish. All the students around began writing rapidly and I sat that staring at my paper in the first row directly in front of him thinking...now what? How can I write what he is saying if I don't understand it. I can barely understand what are words and what seems like a never ending word let alone spell it. Shoot I can't even spell in English! hahaha None the less I slowly started writing what I heard and slowly came to the conclusion that he was talking about evolution  due to some key words like Darwin and Africa and Big Band Theory. It took me a good 20 times of him saying natural selection to realize that he wasn't saying national election. By the end of the hour class I had a good half page or more of notes compared to me classmates whole page and more but I was sufficiently proud with my endavers.
  Next class was not my best. It was Art History for 2 hours with a break inbetween and I found it rather difficult to understand only picking out specific words such as renoir, color, light. I took the notes written on the board and they teacher made a couple jokes about me or I think that's what he was saying hahah.
  The following class I had was gym. The boys and girls go outside and play separate games. For the girls handball the boys I assume soccer. I only watched handball as I was not exactly sure how to play and didn't feel like making a fool of myself completely on the first day! It is essentially basketball but with a lacrosse goal instead.
  My final class of the day was English. It was rather nice to actually understand for once what was happening. It was pretty easy however I did catch myself at one point almost not knowing the answer, which of course I would never let on. It's the small things that I take for granit, like the names of the future tenses that I just automatically new. It is funny to hear the students talk though with them troubling to say what to me is a simple word. It was kinda reassuring that although I sound like a fool in spanish they sound like a fool in english. Of course i didn't comment on their trouble it was just one of the many things i find funny in my head I can't make comments about here.
  Meecha, my host sister in West Virgina, was right. All the students here crowd around you and talk to you. You would think I was some new invention or animal that has never been seen before! I haven't talked to the boys here (Aunt Jackie) because they are much more gender split than here.
  It was really nice to make friends. Both the girls in my grade Julieta, Leyla, Agustina, Sofi, Tete & her twin sister whose name I can't spell for the life of me, and others! Also the night before Meecha's best friends Agus, Agus, Sofi, and Sol came over to my house. They brought me a letter that said in english "Welcome to Argentina K! We hope that you have a good time! We are here to help you in everything you need :) Nice o meet you, we were waiting for you - Agus V, Agus D, Solci y Sofi." In addition to the letter they brought me a Copito, an Alfajor, and biscuits for us to each with our mate. By biscuits I mean cookies, that is what they call them here. It was so nice of them and met a lot to me to sit there and have friends before school even started. Sofi and Solci even walked me home hahah.
  Today was also the birthday of my sister but I am tired and will tell you about that tomorrow. Until then Besos!