Red uniform, Red skin.

For someone who has only been here for a month and two weeks, it sure has been going by quickly!! I started school the day after i arrived, therefore leaving me litterally no time to adjust to anything but whatever. I am going to "Colegio Dios es Amor", it is a tiny private catholic school from kindergarden to grade 12, it has about 500 students and we have to wear uniforms:S I am in Promo which means that im gradding this year along with my 70 other classmates, and yes we are all in the same class...at the same time...all together...in a small room. lets just say its a zoo, but its my zoo and i love it.
Aside from school and Rotary and Spanish,  i havnt been up to a whole lot, that has been changing tho :) a week or two ago, all the rotary students went on our first trip, we went to a wild orchid festival in a town called Conception, it was about a five hour drive but we stopped a few times to eat lunch and to go swimming in a lagoona! that was really fun but i jumped into the water that was shallower than i thought and ended up really hurting my knee again. its gradually getting better but i think i just over streached the healing ligaments. meh. In conception we toured around the local missions and jesuits sights, we went into historic churches and marveled at the beautiful plazas. Our second day we went for "a light walk" that is what they told us. turns out a light walk here is a 2.5 hour hike up a mountain in the 36 degree weather. I happened to have loved it so that was good, the view was beautiful and we got to see orchids in their natural environment. others on the trip were not so content about the exercise and made it very clear, dont worry tho, i held back the urge to strangle people. After hiking, shopping, running away from HUGE beetles, seeing typical dances and tasting typical comidas we loaded up the bus and headed back to Santa Cruz. I considered that to be a very successful trip; got to know the exchange students, learned some new games, didnt sleep much, ate cunape, saw a tucan and an ostridge for the first time and got ridiculously sun burnt. Could have lived without that last one, but on the plus side i now match my red school uniform:P