por fin estoy en mi casa de nuevooo

well , i am now back home and things are pretty much back to normal except for the occasional moment where a spanish word slips out hahah . but i had a little home again party that my family went to so i could see everybody so it was nice . now im back to hangin with my friends since i did come back right in the middle of summer ! ( what luck ??! ) i will be leaving for california today so i can visit my dad before i start school again & we are going to take a little weekend trip to Las Vegas , Nevada . im excited !! well , over all , i know in my heart that this experience was deffenitly worth every second and dime that was spent . i appriciate everyone that helped me with EVERYTHING . even the littlest things count . hopefully you will be hearing from me soon with another blog but in a new country !!

chau .. !!

me falta 3 dias .

hello yall !!

well , i only have 3 days left until i leave my city of Nuevo Chimbote . two days ago was my dads birthday here so like usual we had a big lunch with some family . then my dad got a call and found out his dad ( my grandpa ) of 94 years , is not doing well so then my mom and dad left for Trujillo ( the city that is 2 hours away ) . so i was left with my sister at home . as of today , my mom, dad , and sister are all in trujillo supporting my dad while hes there with his dad . kind of bad timing since i kind of wanted to be with them before i go but , i guess sometimes things happen like that . right now i am the only one home until my brother comes to have lunch with me . i had to make the rice and i have to serve the plates !! here are some pictures to look at from my dads birthday , ( while it lasted ) also when we went to the beach for lunch AND .. I FOUND A KITTEN & HER NAME WAS CHOCOLATE but i had to let her go :(

chau !! see you when im home i guess !

cuzcooooo viaje !!

holaaaaa todos !!

so , as you all know , i reciently got back to Nuevo Chimbote with my host family from being in Cuzco ( where Machu Picchu is ) it was a fun trip although it was very short :( that city was so beautiful . you can really tell that the people that live there are proud to be where they are and they have a reason to ; its sooo beautiful , almost unreal .. the days until i come back to the United States are really limited now and im kind of in the middle about my feelings .. i want to come home to all my family and friends in america but i am going to miss my family here in peru .. theyve all made such an impact on my life rather they know it or not . even the simplest thing leaves a mark in my memory forever , things like going to buy 'pan' (bread) with my mama everyday at 6 pm , or the songs that me and my sister sing together everyday . its been such a struggle and great experience having siblings here , since i have one real brother in america that is 12 years older than me and never really did anything or was never really there . i know i will miss every single one of my family members so much and i have really been thinking and i dont really want to go back to speaking english !! i want to be able to speak spanish alot when i get back .. hopefully i can get a job that involves speaking it . i hope you will enjoy some of these pictures , theyre from my trip . =)

hola todos !! como estan ? :)


i am leaving to go to CUSCO tonight ( in an hour !! ) and im verrry excited !! right now im charging my ipod because its a 6 hour bus ride to Lima from Chimbote and then from Lima its about an hour and a half airplane ride to get to Cusco !! so i am in for a lot of waiting and boredum before i actually arrive to the ' good stuff ' !! but it should be a fun trip !! alot of the AFS peru is going on the trip also so that should add to the experience as well !! as of today i only have 36 days left to be in peru and 15 of those days i will be away in cusco and pichanakki !! the time is really going fast now and i think its always in the end when you realize that it was all worth it to be here . i KNOW i will never forget my year here , and i will always have another family that i love and that loves me also <3 !!


i will write all about cusco and my adventures when i get back :)

the pictures are :

1st ; me , my papi and my sister melisssa .



2nd ; we went to this concert type thing with my dad , and they built these big things kind of like towers .. i think they were for fireworks ? but this guy was running with a firework above his head ( not smart ) but it was funny .



3rd ; me , my sister fiorella and her boyfriend tavoo !!

today i went to the 'isla blanco' in english , it would be the white island . its an island just outside of chimbote . i went with the whole AFS chimbote group and i had a good time apart from the fact i almost threw up on the boat , i didnt bring any food , and the sun was SOOO strong , my face got very burnt .. well , there isnt much to say about it .. there is a group photo at the top !!

CUMPLEANOOOOOOSSSSS!!!!

AMERICANOSSSS!!!


well since i last wrote , my birthday passed . my mom made me chicken but cooked in the over ( they dont use ovens much here ) with my favorite white salad that she makes whenever there is a birthday in the house . all i know is it has white corn , apples , mayonase , peas and some other stuff .. its sooo good ! so some of the family came in from trujillo ( the city we always go to for visiting ) and we all ate lunch together . BUT*** before i ate lunch , i went to go get a massage around 113O that morning and ive never gotten a massage before , it was really relaxing ! so i came home , we ate , and then it was pretty boring from there .. nothing really happened . in the night time they brought my cake out and sung happy birthday !! it was cute to have all my family around .. although my brother and his wife couldnt be there because he is haveing medical problems reciently . anyways , it was nothing special really .. no 'big' traditions that are different from ours . since then nothing has really been happening . i have VERY little time left here and im going to cusco in about 2O days or so .. im very excited about that ! i think its REALLY cold there because right now its winter in peru and its sooo cold . its almost the same as in missouri but when winter first starts and there is no snow . im enjoying the cold but it makes me in this weird mood .. all down and gloomy , but you all know how that is during winter in the united states also (except if you live in miami , then you dont have that problem ! ) other than that nothing much is going on ! just school everyday and maybe going to buy the daily things for my mom .

ill write soon ! ( probably after cusco !! )


<3 kimberly !

MY BELOVED AMERICANS!!!! :)

my time here is getting shorter and shorter and its kind of a sweet and sour thing . i can honestly say ive enjoyed my time here although there was some rough patches and i went through some things i HIGHLY disliked .. but in the end , as im looking back right now i am starting to appriciate the things i have learned even if at that specific moment i didnt . im growing more fond (?) of peru now because i know im about to go back home to america and i KNOW im going to miss it . it kind of sucks that im just starting to notice this but i think that might be what the whole experience is all about . also my birthday is coming up next week and im excited to see how that turns out . i was just posting a lil blog to let all of you know how ive been feeling recently . love&miss you all .


Kimberly .

cole cole cole y esperandoo

well it is April 23rd and i only have about 79 days left here in peru. while being here my last few months i am going to school daily and waiting for my trip to cusco with AFS in june . sometimes i go out with my sisters to the city , or sometimes we go to trujillo to shop or something for a day which is always fun :) i made a grilled cheese for my mom here and she liked it :)also i bought tortillas and a chicken breast to make chicken quesadillas =) im really just counting down the days right now until my cusco trip and coming back home. im excited to come back to America and study in OUR kind of schools.. it will be such a relief to see good grades and to FULLLY understand because it will be on the level that i am supposed to study. ahhh what a relief that will be! i miss my family and i want to see them. hopefully we will have a get together when i get home . today is my brother's wifes birthday here in Peru so we are going to have a little dinner for her , there will be pictures dont worry !! and tomorrow im going to trujillo so i can buy my boots for cusco =)when i get back from cusco i will only have a few days left to be here in peru. i have a feeling things will be sad because ive grown with this family so much.. its going to be really different to go back and live life without them. i will have to call them alot and hopefully i can come back to visit them sometime soon. live without siblings will be relaxing i think now that i know how it is to have them.. im thankful my brother in USA is 12 years older than me haha.

well , im going to watch my novela ( mar del amor ) <-- thats its name if youd like to look it up!!! =)

here is a picture of a birthday party i went to ( my sister and my friend )


kim

LIMAAA CAPITAL DEL PERU !!

hey everyone !!

lately ive been doing alot more , which is exactly what ive been wanting :) i went to lima with my host moms sister ( mi tia ) to her house for a little over a week . it was during 'semana santa' which is easter week in usa . while i was downtown lima i got to see a ceremony - type thing with the virgin mary , everyone was in the street and it was really moving to see all those people there for the same casue/ reason . i took a video !! it was really cool because it was unexpected. i just happened to be in the right place at the right time . the next day i went to a water display called ' parque de aguas ' it was REALLLY pretty , and it was telling kind of a story of peru .. i took a video of that also !!

i had a really nice time even from being in the taxi and observing everything with my aunt it was also really nice to get a break away from my house in chimbote.. which i think i needed at that moment . but dont get me wrong , i ABSOLUTELY love my host family and i wouldnt change them now if i could .. no way . my aunt that i stayed with had different values and costoms .. which is surprising because it is the sister of my host mom so i thought they would be something alike but nope .. COMPLETELY different . maybe it has something to do with the people they married or their life after just being at home helping mom , or high school . . it just puts my mind to work how thing work out and why . and i wonder how much im going to change..

FOOOOD !!! my aunts food was way different also .. well since her husband is from japan she made things with alot of soy sauce.. it was something different that im not used to so i liked it :)



MORE TO COME SOON .. going out to eat pizzzza =)

disculpa disculpa disculpa ^^

lately i havent really been doing anything. i started school again although i still cant understand MATH !!! i saw one of the soccer player from my citys team !! and i also had the BEST pizza ive ever eaten .. and who wouldve thought that it would be in PERU !! im excited for the trips that are coming up because on this coming sunday im going to lima for the first time !! :D im going for a week and staying with my aunt !! (tia elena ) ummm also ive realized that it is REAAAAAALLLY different the life with brothers and sisters . i dont really know why it took me so long to realize that but it did . i appriciate the differences .. and i know in the future it will be helpful in my life . i continue learning spanish which , also will help me a GREATTT DEAL in my life !! hmmm what else is there ? i met a boy while i was in chiclayo ( for my short term exchange ) and hes the cutesttt !! but i know that i WILL not even make him more than a friend because i dont have much time left here and the time i do have , i am going to spend traveling peru ! :) also i am kind of getting a greater apriciation of nuevo chimbote .. the city im in . it can be pretty if you really take time to look at it .
i took some pictures on the bus on my way back from trujillo with my mom and it made me happy :) i will post more words AND pictures when i come back from lima . =D


miss everyone !!! if you have any questions , email me so i have more to talk abotu !!

kimberlymilner@hotmail.com

intercambio corto!! viajesss !!! x fin !

lately ive been a little busy to write but i recently had my short term exchange . i had to go to a different city for two weeks to experience their culture and the city itself . it was very different i have to admit . the family i stayed with was VERY different . there were less rules inside the house , less cleaning , more relaxing . i went on a few tours around the region of lambayeque went and saw some ancient ruins and pyramids of the sipan culture and i had a really great time and enjoyed myself . i also went to the beach with my brother and his friends which was really fun hanging out with the boys . i also did alot of stuff with the people of AFS like the beach and going out to eat . all in all it was a really great time and a break from what im used to in chimbote . maybe being here isnt so bad after all , its just really different . and by the way its REAAAAAAALLLYYYYY hot outside right now :( can you say heat stroke ? ahaha not really but thats what it feels like sometimes . heres a few pictures of various parts of my trip ! enjoy <3

ano nuevo y un poco mas

my new years was deffinately different while i was here . my mom made pig , it was an actual pig leg , and salad and there was bread . it was nothing really special . me and my sisters were trying to figure out what to wear for the longest time . finally when everyone was ready , we ate dinner together and then me , fiorella , melissa , and her boyfriend jorge left for this big party ; well , thats what they told me . . but when we got there there was not even alot of people there and as the night went on , there was still not a lot of people . . it was kind of a let down but it was different so its okay i guess . things are getting harder here because there is not alot for me to do during the summer when there is not school and i really want to travel and see peru . well im about to go to my sisters work for a little while so i will write more later .


<3 kim .