daily life & my 2nd day of school after a relaxing weekend

Daily life & My 2nd day of school after a relaxing weekend:
This weekend we went to a place with vineyards called San Rafaal abotu 2 hours away...in the south of mendoza (state) with the morettis & paula invited one of her best friends! it was fun and SUCH nice weather for their winter...we layed outside in our bathing suits! ahha.
School today was good...once a week they have english class and today was the day..i actually UNDERSTOOD the teacher! :) ahha. but im learning little by little new words and sayings and how to say the alphabet in spanish...even IT is very different! : o I enjoy school because we have many breaks and i can hang out with the classmates and try to communicate between broken enlgish and very little spanish.(because they know more english then i know spanish)! ahaha.
the morettis are great....and everyone is so much fun to talk to and hang out with, kinda like my long-lost family. now, paula got home from dance class after school and we are going to a park near her house to walk and enjoy the sunshine!!! and then going to pick up a movie (which by the way are all pirated or stolen from the internet) its crazy...that doesnt happen in our public movie stores, but it DOES here! :o
so thats all for now. love ya! <3 Kayla Jane! :)

I am here... I am finally in Argentina! :D

FUN traveling, but man were we bored for 13 hours in the Miami, FL airport! : (

The first picture is with Kathryn (also from NC, USA) in the Miami Airport. They gave us masks because of the swine flu outbreak in Argentina. We just enjoyed them for taking pictures! :)

The second picture was during th talent show in the AFS orientation. Each country had to do something, and we did the Big Mac Rap! :)haha

The first picture is Kathryn (a friend from Charlotte, NC, USA who is also an exchange in Argentina) and our moms the night before we left.

Bienvenido (welcome to Argentina)!

~Hola, i arrived yesterday at a bus station at 9Am or so and met my new familia from Argentina. I loove them so much. They remind me of my family back home because of their lively, happy, and comforting personalities! Without the help of them, i think i would feel a little lost. I am trying to just listen to everyone around me speak Spanish and become accquainted with it & learn new words in Spanish. For now, that is all i can take in ONE day. It seems like I have heard about as much spanish in one day as i have heard my entire life! :) ahha. but I DO love Mendoza and have truly enjoyed Buenos Aires that we saw on the tour of the city with AFS 2 days ago. I have to wait to go to school for a few days because they want to be cautious with things like the Swine Flu. Anyway, that meant sleeping in for my first day' 'home' and hanging out with Paula! :) As far as my first day here in Mendoza with my family and new friends, my family took me to a big park honoring san martin and then this walking place with a big monument representing san martin and his army that crossed the andes mountains to free Argentina, Peru and some other country. i forgot. then we went to their grandparents' hosuse for a sunday afternoon lunch and has asado and something that tasted like an enchilada and drove around the grandparents' neighborhood to see all the new and HUGE houses being built! :) but then i met Paula's freinds and then we went to a 45 min. mass church service in the downtown. we came home, chatted for a while. i finally skyped my parents for a few min and then it was off to bed. BUSY BUSY BUSY. I will be back soon to let you know about more that went on! Hasta Luego, adios!~

The second picture is of me and most of the other USA AFSers when we were in Buenos Aires, Argentina during the orientation.

The first picture is of my new family, the Morettis, and I the day I arrived in Mendoza, Argentina after a 13 hour bus ride that night.

Packing, Planning, Awaiting my Departure!

All is GREAT...i have my Visa, I am starting to pack, and I only have 4 days until I leave from Miami, headed for Buenos Aires, Argentina! I just got back from a AFS orientation welcoming the new students that are staying here in the USA Carolinas, of which many of them are in our county and only a couple minutes away, but too bad I wont be here to hang out until feb. Actually, I will be having fun of my own in Mendoza, Argentina! :D I am very excited to hug and kiss the Morettis hello for the first time. I have talked with them a lot and I think we will all get along very well and I will truly enjoy their company as my new family for 5 months who I know I will want to come back and visit some time! :) Ill be back soon to blog and the next time I do, it will probably be while I am in Argentina! :D ta ta for now! lol

Finishing the Visa Process~HOPEFULLY!

Today my mom and I drove up to Washington D.C. to go to the Argentinian consulate tomorrow at 10:00 for an appointment to get my visa! We have all the papers together, so I pray I will walk out with my visa in my hands tomorrow! We are relaxing in the hotel right now and are going out for sightseeing a little tonight since we're here...we might as well since we drove a little over 6 hours to get here! :) I am soo syched, stoked, but nervous about leaving the country in less than 13 days! :0 wow have things flown by and so has this summer! :D I have a going away party this Saturday also that my friends are throwing for me! :) Im excited to see everyone I haven't seen since school was out but also sad its a goodbye for now right at the beginning of out SENIOR year! ; / I know it WILL be worth it to be going to Argentina for a semester and I will love it while I'm there, but currently I feel like im gonna miss out on a little of the fun my last year left here in Caldwell County! haha, corny I know! :D Hopefully they'll crop me in all the pics of group pics with the senior girls at fooball games and black out days at South Caldwell High! :) awww... ; ) well, Ill be back soon. Probably the next time i'm on I'll be in Argentina, so HERE I COME Morettis! :) gah, im so excited. The whole family has been soo welcoming as well have the friends of Paula who friend me on Facebook saying how excited they are about having me come there! :D Things are great! Talk to you soon!! Hasta luego.
~Kayla Jane~