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 .

ya he pasado navidad ..

BUEEEENNNOOOO , my christmas was DEFINATELY not what i was expecting . all i can really say was it wasnt good or bad it was just different . i was just in my house with my family like a normal day except we has WAYYYY more food than usual . my mom made a turkey and fruit salad and chicken and well , alot more . i bought a cake for my family .. kind of my gift to them in the form of fooood . uhhh , we had a secret santa thing going on so everyone only got one present but i had my mom in the US send a package to me and it had all sorts of things for each of my family members in it so they were all happy . earlier in the night i talked to all of my family back home and it made me cry . i didnt realize how much i missed them ( ALOTTTTTT ) i cant wait to see them all again <3 . today i have my 'prom' at around 7 and all my family is coming :) well , recently i hace kind of been having doubts about staying here but i figure , what the heck i only have 6 months left so why not . itll be over before you know it . i will write more after prom and new years ! love you all :)

<3

mi viaje a ecuador ^-^

have you ever had a surprise trip that you had to go on ? well , i had one of those this past week !! i all the sudden found out that i had to exit peru and enter ecuador so i could enter peru again to renew my visa !! ok so it sounds difficult but really it was no problem . i had to take a bus all the way to a place called tumbes , it took 13 hours to get there from chimbote ( not counting the hour and a half i had to wait for the bus! ) i left chimbote at about 12:3O at night and got there at about 2 in the afternoon ! nobody from AFS could figure out that it was me they were looking because apparantly , i " pass for a latina " .. which isnt the first time ive heard that . anyways , 1O people (students) from AFS were also there so it was fun ! we took a picture while we were crossing from peru into ecuador=D it was fun with them , we went around to kind of get to know tumbes and we were kind of in a nature area , it was so fun i had a great time with my friends .!!!

on my way back to chimbote , i had to take a bus from tumbes to trujillo (where i go all the time) and then in trujillo i bought another ticket to go from trujillo to chimbote and then a taxi from the bus station to my house ! this experience was interesting .. i must say ! but i had a great time overall !

<3>

WELL , alot of things are coming up like christmas and my promocion from school so there will be interesting posts soon :)))) !!

oooh ahhh , xmas spirit :]

TWO DAYS UNTIL DECEMBER !!! it`s getting close to christmas time and im so excited ! it will be my first christmas that i`m away from home and won`t get to see any of my family .. not even my mom or dad ! woooo ! that makes me excited :) . There is a picture of my PANETON ! it`s a traditional sweet that we eat in Peru . . sad to say , i dont like it very much . but it`s ok because there are alotttt more sweets here ! i also found out that i will be going to chiclayo ( LOOK IT UP ! ) for my short term exchange ! which also makes me excited because that means SCHOOOL IS ALMOST OUT FOR THE SUMMER ! :DDD !!

also , i cut my hair short .. if you didn`t already know that ? and dyed it back to my natural color ! woo . . muuuuch better . im getting tan too ! ^^ yay ! my sister vanessa and i put up the christmas tree yesterday which was fun because that means christmas .. im really really excited . my ' familia peruana ' is the best :) . ill post more after Lima . CHAUUU !! :):):D

como es un dia en mi vida ?!

im sure you have probably been wondering what a normal day in the life of kimberly is . well , i will explain it to you :-) well , on a school day , i wake up at 6 :3O ( 6: OO on mondays ) and go to the bathroom to brush my teeth and wash my face. then , i go put on my uniform for school . then , i go to the table and eat breakfast with my mom and dad and brother. i have to be at school by 7: 3O , and i walk there from my house. i get to school and go to my class to hangout for a few minutes until the bell rings . then , when my teacher enters the class , we all stand up to show him / her respect and then sit when they tell us we can . then , there is 3/4 classes each day . here , ill type them out :

monday :
1] EPET 2] EPET 3] comunicacion 4] comunicacion 5] matematica 6] matematica 7] matematica

tuesday:
1] historia 2] historia 3] historia 4]PFRH 5] PFRH 6] ingles 7] ingles

wednesday :
1] comunicacion 2] comunicacion 3] fisica elem. 4] fisica elemental 5] fisica elemental 6] fisica 7] fisica

thursday :
1] matematica 2] matematica 3] matematica 4] civica 5] civica 6] arte 7] arte

friday :
1] fisica elemental 2] fisica elemental 3] EPET 4] EPET 5] tutoria 6] religion 7] religion

those are my classes . its like blocked scheduling in the united states . just so you know , EPET is like computer / training for your future class . math is trigonometry . PFRH is about family and healthy choices . fisica elemental is physics . and tutoria is when whats like my home room teacher comes in and talks to us about important things that we should know about .

after school , i walk home with my friends and my lunch is waiting for me there. i eat with my mom, dad , brother and then later on my sisters come home from their work to eat . everyone goes back to work around 3:30 and then im at home with my mom and brother for the rest of the day until everyone comes back home in the evening . unless im outside with my friends or go to chimbote with one of my family members :)


so now , you know about a day in the life of me , lil miss peru !! :D