My Last Day

Hoy día es mi ultimo día en Arequipa. Como pasa el tiempo. Me parece que llegué en la semana pasada. Ha sido nueve meses. Cuando llegue tengo que trabajar, estudiar, y todo eso. Mi amiga Mafer me dijo que cuando llegues a casa parece que alguien a puesto pausa, pero tu vida no ha pausado. Tambien me dijo que mis amigos van a parecer mas joven que yo. Espero eso no sea el caso.

-Cristofer

Aprende Inglés: Home (Jom) (Hogar)

6 Days

As suggested by the headline, I have six days left in Arequipa. I'm not sure how I feel about that. On one hand, I feel excited to be going home and seeing everyone. One the other, I have to say goodbye to all my friends I've made this year. I remember in the 2nd grade, my friend Amber moved away. That was the first time that I knew I'd never see someone again. 10 years later I have to say goodbye to a large number of people I'll never see again. It's not a pleasant thought.

Yesterday I finally started buying gifts for people back home. It was not as cheap as I was hoping it was going to be. I've only bought for about half the people I need to buy for.

I guess that's all for now.

-Christopher

Learn Spanish: Jamás (Hahm Ahs) (Never/Ever)

Freedom

Finally, after weeks of studying for hours and getting nowhere, I've finished with school. I'm now devoting the majority of my time to sleeping in, watching TV shows online, and the ever-so-popular eating. Sorry to say, exercising didn't make the list.

We (by "we", I mean "I") got the computer back up and running. So now I can go back to doing what I do best; searching the internet for obscure and pointless information. I'm not sure if I'm learning more from sitting here all day than I did at school, but here's a list of things I did learn there:
1) How to hold a scalpel
2) How to skin someone (incredibly gross)
3) The difference between arteries, veins, nerves, and tendons on a dead guy
4) Advanced medical vocabulary in Spanish
5) How to prepare a biopsy
6) The equation for determining whether a person is diabetic or not
7) How to sew someone up
8) How to translate medical text
9) Never address a doctor as "professor"

That's it I guess. I'm sure there are others that elude me at the moment. For those of counting the days, 11 days until I leave and 12 until I get home.

Learn Spanish: Bisturí (Bee Stur EE) (Scalpel)

End of School

Today is my last day of school. I'm not going for my last two weeks. I want to sleep in and work towards getting taken care of at a reasonable pace. I brought in my rotary cards to pass out.

Today is the going away party for one of my friends. She leaves for Oregon on Sunday. It's crazy to think that people are already going home. And I only have 2 weeks left.

Oh and the computer is broken. So my house has been extremely boring, especially with my host brother and sister on vacation this week. I got blamed for breaking it, which doesn't surprise me. I got blamed for breaking the DVD player too, even though I didn't use it the week it broke.

Okay, I'm going to go. I've got Medical English class to go to.

-Chris

Learn Spanish: Despedida (Dehs Pay Dee Dah) (Going away party)

Limbo Lower Now

Life's kind of been in a limbo state, lately. I've been watching more movies than normal. All my classes have started to bore me, not because the stuff is boring, but because they've gone beyond what I understood. I think that had a lot to do with traveling so much. I'm behind and there's no way to get caught up. What's worse, I have my dissection exam in Anatomy in a few days. They gave me the foot. Which is infinitely harder than the rest of the leg.

As of today, I have 2 1/2 weeks left until I leave for Elkhart. That's not a lot of time.


-Chris

Learn Spanish: pie (Pee A) (Foot)

Lima

I got back from Lima yesterday. It was awesome. The city has tall buildings, a highway system, malls, American food. It was a real change from Arequipa. We went to Papa John's, McDonald's, Dunkin' Donuts, and 1 Mexican restuarant. The tastiest three days I've had here.

We went to their Plaza De Arms (city center), the government palace, and a church with Catacombs. I liked the church, but they made me translate from Spanish to English because most of the group didn't speak Spanish and they didn't offer a tour in English for several more hours. That was not fun; a lot of the vocabulary terms were religious and artistic and things I didn't know the translations for. What made things worse was that one of the members of our group was an art teacher and very religous.

We stayed at this really cool hostel called the Flying Dog. So if you're ever in Lima on a budget, I recommend it.

That's all. Maybe I'll have pictures later, but I forgot my camera at the hostel most of the time, so I'll have to get some from the other guys.

-Chris

Learn Spanish: Catacumbas (Caht Ah Koom Bahs) (Catacombs)

Update

Friday I went to go see Spiderman 3. I enjoyed it a lot more than the first two. Just thought I'd throw that out there.

My friend Emily's mom is visiting from the states. And she's invited my friends and me to go to Lima with her on Monday for a few days. I'm excited. I haven't been to Lima, other than the 5 over layover I had when I got here. I'm really going for the food, they have a Dunkin Donuts, McDonald's, and about a million other American restaurants.

I guess that's all for now. I'll update from Lima or when I get back.

-Chris

Learn Spanish: Araña (Ah Rahn Yah) (Spider)