BAILANDO... - Rapa Nui Style

RAPA NUI! Oli aivan mahtava  päivä (joskus kuukausia sitten, on taas ollu niin kiire et oon ihan hullun jäljessä). Me kaikki luokat oltiin harjoteltu erilaisii kansallistanssei (itsenäisyyspäivän lomalle lähtöpäivää varten) jo kuukausia, ja mun valinta oli tää Rapa Nui mikä on siis pääsiäissaarilta tullut tanssi. Hieman pelotti noiden asujen takia (hyvin vähän vaatetta) ja koska tosiaan tanssitaan parin kanssa ja näin edespäin siinä oli paljon paineita koska aikaisempina vuosina se oli niin upea kuulemma. Mutta pääosin hyvin meni, oli superhauska päivä ihanien ihmisten kanssa <3

Mun pari Rocha (se on sen sukunimi mut kaikki sanoo sitä sillä eikä etunimel) ja mun kaveri Maida.

Yerko, Rocha, Emiliano ja Stefano, yrittäen näyttää alkuasukkailta.
Aamu aloitettiin sillä että ei menty kouluun tunneille vaan laitettiin itsemme ja pojat (ne piti maalata sotamaalauksin tietty) valmiiksi ja vaihdettiin vaatteet. Ensin kuljin koulupuvun paitaa peittona koska tuntu oudolta kävellä ympäri koulua pelkissä bikineissä ja höyhenissä (mun sisko et näytän "Grande pollo" isolta kanalta haha), mut sit siihen tottu, olihan meitä puolialastomia kanoja aika paljon lopulta kumminkin.

Yhteiskuvaa! Nyt en luettele nimiä kumminkaan.

Siitä se lähti. Ihan semisti porukkaa, ei jännittäny muuta kun kädet vaan tärisi kun piti pitääkahta kookoksen puuolikasta joissa oli kynttilät.



Loppuaika otettiin kuvia ja oli superhauskaa kaikilla oli niin siistejä (tai naurettavii, kummin vaan) asuja.

Mafi, minä ja Cami <3


Mä ja Rocha.

Sisko <3 Sillä oli enemmän sellanen suomalaista kansallistanssia muistuttava kansantanssi.

Mun ja Pablon yhteiskuva haha. Sillä oli kans enemmän sellanen klassinen tanssí ton hatun ja kauluspaidan kaa.
Ylipäätään oli ihana päivä joka tulee aina säilyyn mun muistoissa ja oon ilonen et uskalsin valita tollasen tanssin missä oli kans selkeesti vähiten porukkaa, muut mun vuosikurssin tanssit oli selvästi tylsempii!

Besitos,
Maaru

18 C H I C O

The independence of Chile is celebrated 18th of September. My colegio (school) organized a "18 Chico"(=Little 18) -party at the school, which is apparently very common, the whole month of September is like a one huge party. I loved it.Everything was in the colours of white, blue and red, flags, decorations and fiestas everywhere! The 18 Chico at the school was like a huge barbeque with the whole school on a saturday. I'll just upload a bunch of photos I took that day and hope you enjoy!


Lots of people! Everyones parents and some grandparents too all eating chilean berbeque food together, whatching peopledance queca or dancing it (a nacional dance in chile) or just sosiolizing and listening to music.

There were A LOT of children. Some had really pretty nacional dresses as the girl other girl in the photo and you can see one in the background too.

And this little curlyhaired charmer just craved to be in the photo for his cuteness if nothing else.

And her. I don't know her but this is my favourite photo of the whole event. Een though I don't normally agree with dolling up your children, but here it's a part of the culture here and she looks absolutely beautiful. Why are all chilean kids so damn cute? I was disgussing this with my hostfamily one day and I said without thinking: "Ohh I really want a chilean baby they're so much more cuter than finnish babies!" and got a worried look from my hostmama and -sister who immediately said: "No Maaru not just yet okay?". I didn't mean that I want a chilean baby of my own, just A chilean baby!
Chicas <3


The guys playing with a string attatched between 2 trees. I tried too later on.

More girls from my school <3

Coni, Javi y la Cata. Bubbles.

Someóne had brought a little hamster to the school in a boxand it was sooo scared I felt so bad for him.

This photo isn't actually taken by me, it was taken by a ex-student named Nacho, who's really into photography and I got to know him at this event. I left my camera to him and he'd taken this photo of Coni and I love it so I'm jut gonna use it ;) I'll ask him later!

And that concludes my post from the 18 Chico at my school in September (and yes I know that now it's like December, I'm kind of late but I hope I'll get somehow up these posts and keep uploading at least some content, I have so much to write about and so many photos coming!)

Yah, besitooos
Maaru

Cumpleaños de Pepa

Only a few fotitos this time, they're from my baby host-cousin Pepas birthday party. It was on the same day I got back from the Retiro and all it was sooooo much fun! I got to meet more of my hostcousins and everyone and we had a chocolate - waterfall, how cool is that? I haven't got many photos from that night but just know that there was a lot of children and it was all superfun! Thanks to Paty (my host-aunt, the sister of my host-mom) and everyone!

I'm so behind my schedule now, this post is like... Two months too late! ButI'll try to find my rutine with this.

Besitos, Maaru

Retiro

Okay. If you're wondering what exactly is "retiro" I shall explain. My host-sister explained that the term isn't official so don't try googling it, but in this case it means a religious (catolic) camp i went to with my classmates for a weekend. It was a lot of fun, and surprisingly it wasn't very different compared to the confirmacion camps (or weekend-camps after confirmating) we have in Finland. I got to know my classmates better, didn't sleep much, got to act as one of my school mates as he acted as me (unfortunately I haven't got any photos, taking pictures was forbidded, but it was priceless.), laughed a lot and took lots of photos.

I also learned that chileans are very... affectionate. I don't know how to word that better but they hug a lot and it's also very normal to for example stroke or pet someones hair, arm, leg or whatever. It doesn't matter if you have a girlfriend or a boyfriend (or as the chileans would say, polola or pololo) you equally can be close to other girls or boys, apparently not making your significant other jealous. I guess either finns are really jealous or just really afraid of physical contact. Don't get me wrong, I consider myself a very... affectionate person too. I like to hug and be close to people and it's normal with my friends in Finland too to just lie on eachothers lap too without it being weird, and I don't mind this here either, but here they just are ALL very comfortable sharing their own personal space with others. Cultural differences! Thats why I'm here, learning about stuff like this,and so far so good, I love the culture. Just beware finnish people, I'll be even more loving and toutchy than before when I come back!

The first 5 million photos are from the 2 hour bus ride on the Friday-night that we all left for the Retiro. They're all really bad quality and taken with flash which makes everyone look horrible. I also made an observasion that all the people with ojos caffe (brown eyes) look way better in the photos taken with flash than the few ones like me who have ojos claro (clear eyes like blue or green). So unfair!

More bad quality photos! The people here really love the camera as you probably can tell... These photos are from when we just arrived at the place the Retiro was kept.

Better quality photos! We went out the next day to take photos with the girls and they're all so beautiful with gorgeous hair I cannot take it my poor self-esteem... From left to right on the top are Monse (Monserrat) taking a photo, myself and Cami (Camila). On the row below are Feña (Fernanda), Vale (Valeria) and Cata (Catalina) and me in the last picture.

Mi Comunidad, ComuniBarneyyyy <3 Everyone in the school (keep in mind that it's a catolic school) who wants to confirmate is divided into these groups, comunities. We meet almost every friday after school (I'll take my camera some time) and just hang out for couple of hours and it's super fun! Usually there's some type of topic we're discussing that day and we also pray. Everyone holds hands and the leaders (students from university) talk and everyone has a freedom to speak up and pray or thank for something which I think is nice.. Some people have actually really opened up and spoken of really important things in their life. My first time in the community (when they made me jump up and down in the middle with only one foot and say things about myself in spanish, and this was when I couldn't speak almost anything yet) one girl in my community actually prayed FOR ME. That was actually incredible, I didn't know her at that point almost at all but she's such a nice person and gesture that it almost made me cry. If you read this some day, tell me. I just had to write it, such an amazing thing to do to someone who was practically a stranger at the time , te quiero <3

Crazy girls in the car! We were supposed to return back to the school with the bus just like the journey to the retiro too, but we didn't fit to the bus... So we had to go back with the car of one of the volunteers. From Left to right Cami, Feña, me and Cata.

At the school yard waiting for either the church to start, or getting picked up by your parents. In the first photo you can see the tall guy in the middle, his name is Nico and he is in the U (university) and one of the leaders in my community. The girl with the red scarf who is in all of the pictures is Cata haha :D

Monse, Cata, me and Feña <3


Latin Musicaaa:

Arenalina - Wisin ft. Jennifer Lopez, Ricky Martin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PruwAer9zD0


Voy A Beber - Nicky Jam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMdsVS5yeoY


Darte Un Beso - Prince Royce
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yr03_tItXno

Besitos,

Maaru

Höpäjämisiä

WARNING: This post is in finnish, so if you are not finnish and you want to read, go ahead and use Google Translator. It may not translate all because I use more casual language and slagwords at some parts, but the idea should translate. But also I warn you that some parts of the post are only targted for finnish people to understand, you may not understand the idea if you're not a finn. Haha the next post will be in english so no te preocupes... Attleast you can CHECK OUT the music at the end! Enjoy!
Haha mua nyt vaan naurattaa se että kuinka tyhmältä toi otsikko näyttää kenen tahansa ei-suomalaisen mielestä... Chileläiset (ja varmaan ketkä tahansa muutkin espanjaa puhuvat) lukisivat ton ääneen jotekin näin: "opahamishia". Yritin tänään koulussa opettaa mun kaveria sanomaan "Hyvää yötä!". Alkoi sujua pikkuhiljaa paremmin mutta lopussakin kun sanoin että "si, si mas o menos esta bien!" se kuulosti tältä: "hjuva jyotha". Myönnän, suomenkieli on vaikeaa, ollaan siis ylpeitä tästä salakielestä mikä me ollaan saatu äidinkielenä, muita kieliä voi aina opetella ja englannilla pärjää aika pitkälle myös!
Mulla ei siis oikeasti ole mitään tiettyä aihetta, kunhan kirjoittelen suomeksi koska tulevissa postauksissa on NIIIIN paljon kuvia ja ne vie enemmän aikaa...
Olen nyt ollut täällä Santiago de Chilessä 1kk ja 15 päivää. En oikein tiedä mitä ajatella.
Mulla ei ole juurikaan koti-ikävää. Kuulostaa kamalalta sanoa niin, ja muistan kuinka ihmettelin ennen omaa lähtöäni muita vaihtareita jotka sanoivat niin mutta se on totta. Ei täällä ole aikaa ikävöidä tai surra juttuja mitä Suomessa "missaa". Mulla on asiat tosi hyvin täällä (olen kai aika onnekas). Mun hostperhe on maailman parhain ollut alusta lähtien. Mut on otettu vastaan uutena perheenjäsenenä eikä vaan jonain randomina joka nyt asuu vuoden täällä. Teen kotona juttuja muiden tavoin ja meen mukana siinä missä muutkin sisarukset.
Kiusaan PIKKUveljeä (Elisa if the google translator doesn't translate that properly I mean "mi hermano MAS chico que yo") takaisin kun se kiusaa mua (meillä on siis 1v eroa teoriassa, Pablo on syntynyt 98 ja mä 97). Viime perjantaina sillä oli synttärit, joten ollaan 16-vuotiaita molemmat nyt seuraavat 3kk ennen mun synttäreitä marraskuussa, ja tilanne on vakava sillä se on mua yli päätä pidempi ja jaksaa muistuttaa joka päivä olevansa 16v myös... Eliana on jo alkanut sanoa että "mä en kestä 16-vuotiaita selvittäkää omat sotkunne mä pysyn erossa tästä!" 

Elisa mun vanhin sisko on yliopistossa ja se on jo 21v mutta ei vaikuta siltä yhtään! Se itsekin sano että se on Pablon ja Elianan seurassa kun joku 15-vuotias mikä on just hauskaa, se ei ikinä tärkeile yhtään sillä et se on vanhempi. Ainoo ero on ehkä se että se saa ottaa vaikka oluen jääkaapista jos se haluaa ja se voi toimii kuskina meille muille mikä on siistiä. Elisa kans samoin kun Eliana jaksaa neuvoo  mua kun mulla on mun tyhmiä kysymyksiä, ja korjata mun kökköespanjaa kun teen samoja virheitä uudestaan ja uudestaan... Ja lainaa vaatteitaan ja saan käyttää sen kynsilakkoja joita on suunnilleen miljoona kun haluan ;)

Eliana on mua vuotta vanhempi (tai se on 97 syntynyt alkuvuodesta eli Suomessa oltaisiin samalla luokalla mutta täällä se on vuotta ylemmällä) ja meillä on yhteinen huone. Se on mun tukipilari täällä, kestää kaikki mun tyhmimmätkin kysymykset vaikka sen pitäis opiskella tai mitä ikinä, kertoo just rehellisesti mielipiteensä ja mitä teen tyhmästi, mitä ehkä Suomesta kaipaan. Ollaan ihan samanlaisia huoneen siistinä pitämisessä, lue: se ei pysy siistinä. Eliana oli siis nyt vaihdossa Suomessa edellisen vuoden!

Eli in conclusion, mulla on ehkä maailman parhaat hostsisarukset ja -perhe <3
These are all songs that are played non-stop here, in carretes (parties), recreos (breaks in school), car journeys, the radio, in my head... Everywhere. Enjoy!
Travesuras - Nicky Jam                                                          (The first song I learned the words for, even though I dont understand all the words and I also know I don't really want to understand the meaning of the words)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FYU58QWPAk
Bailando - Enrique Iglesias
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUsoVlDFqZg

Humanos A Marte - Chayanne                                               (MI FAVORITO!!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywfb8EYbmCI

Maaru

Dunkin' Donuts with Elisa, Tami and Pablo

The day we came back from Algarrobo, we left with Elisa to pick up Tami, my hostcousin, from her house. We stayed to say hello to my other hostcousin, her baby-sister Pepa who is the cutest thing in the world!


Hermanas. Sisters. Siskokset.

My cutest baby-cousin Pepa <3





Dunkin' Donuts OMG why we don't have that in Finland it's an injustice!?

Me, Pablo (we picked him up after Tami from the bus station, he had to come by bus from Algarrobo because there wasn't enough space in the car...), Tami and Elisa at Dunkin' Donuts. I took the Boston MANJAR obviously ;) Me encanta manjar!

We went to the Pharmasy afterwards with Elisa and I just had to take a picture.
Finns look at what I found IN  LATINOAMERICA, CHILE !! Go Finland!
Suomalaiset kattokaa mitä löysin LATINALAISESTA AMERIKASTA, CHILESTÄ !! Go Finland!

This was a really casual post of nothing special but I have soooo many pictures and posts coming, so much has happened I'm way back on my schedule, I just wanted to introduce you to Tami and Pepa and share a casual evening with you.



Besos,
Maaru