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Name: Jill M. Jones FSC 05
From: New Zealand
From: New Zealand
Degree: Education and Nursing
Service: Education and Youth Ministry
Service: Education and Youth Ministry
Jill with her community
Mountain view
Jill is from Napier, New Zealand and volunteered for several
months in Puerto Mont, Chile. She knows three languages:
English, Italian and Spanish.
The following message is taken from one of her e-mails.
Hi all, I think my Birthday in Chile would have to be one of the best
birthdays I have ever had!!!!!!! this could be because.....
Sor Lorena told me I wasn't allowed to get up early and had to wait
until she came to wake me up which means something is up.
I am waiting to be "woken up" and I can hear Sor Lorena and some
girls outside my room doing something and then I can see on the
ceiling the shadow of ballooons so I'm thinking this is cool.
The girls are all making lots of noise telling each other to shhhhh or
silencio! Then one girl has a toy bear that when you push it's parts of
the body it says them in English so I hear a "This is my hand". I am
laughing now.
Next thing i hear, "uno dos tres..." I am expecting a Happy birthday
song and I get bombarded with soft toys!!!! All the girls' soft toys. I
started throwing them back, just a little war. They all sang Happy
birthday in English and Spanish.
Every class I had I was sung Happy birthday in English and Spanish. I
think I was sung happy birthday in one day more than all my other
birthdays put together.
Sor Lorena took me out for a Hot Chocolate and Yummy as cake!
Alejandra took me out for a yummy as Lemon Pie, which I adore and
Hot Chocolate.
Lunch with the Sisters and the Priest that comes on Thursdays. Very
cool!!! I chose my favourite Chilean food which is Empanadas of
Cheese and of Meat. Then Sor Lorena and Orieta made the yummiest
biggest cake ever!!! Of Chocolate, Vanilla and Manjar and
Cream!!!!!! 1000000 points!!!!!!!! Also we had Pisco Sour, which is
the Chilean liquor that I love!!!!
I waited after lunch to open my present from the sisters, and as I was
opening it, I read "Lady Jane lingerie!!!" I'm thinking, "is this okay to
open in front of the priest?" I asked Sor Anita and she's like "no don't
open it", but I keep going very slowly and carefully and inside is a
Clock of Chile and a CD that I really like and have been wanting to
buy. It has one of the sisters that showed me around Santiago singing
on it and it is beautiful. Anyway, it was a very good laugh.
In the evening I was invited up to the other dormitory and the girls up
there had a ceremony for me and wrote a beautiful letter and it was
lovely. When I went to bed - my bed had been short sheeted!!!!! The
sheet was tied in knots and I had all the toys of the girls to sleep with.
(wasn't that kind of them). Actually I loved it!
Time for the cake (yes another one) and after the Happy Birthday,
they tell me it is a Chile tradition to bite the cake (like we scream when
you first cut the cake). I am having a hard time with this and don't
believe them. Also I just can't phsyically bit the cake it is unhygenic or
something. Anyway finally I pluck up the courage and do it only to find
my face totally in it!!!!! Very funny!!!!!!!!!! What a sucker I
am!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A huge thank you to everyone who made my day sooooo special!!!!!
Especially Alejandra and Sor Lorena!!!!!!!!!!!! You two are the best
and I am really thank you to have to as my friends here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well that is all I have to say. I hope all of you are happy and living up
life.
love and Godbless
JILLxxoxoxoxoxoxox
months in Puerto Mont, Chile. She knows three languages:
English, Italian and Spanish.
The following message is taken from one of her e-mails.
Hi all, I think my Birthday in Chile would have to be one of the best
birthdays I have ever had!!!!!!! this could be because.....
Sor Lorena told me I wasn't allowed to get up early and had to wait
until she came to wake me up which means something is up.
I am waiting to be "woken up" and I can hear Sor Lorena and some
girls outside my room doing something and then I can see on the
ceiling the shadow of ballooons so I'm thinking this is cool.
The girls are all making lots of noise telling each other to shhhhh or
silencio! Then one girl has a toy bear that when you push it's parts of
the body it says them in English so I hear a "This is my hand". I am
laughing now.
Next thing i hear, "uno dos tres..." I am expecting a Happy birthday
song and I get bombarded with soft toys!!!! All the girls' soft toys. I
started throwing them back, just a little war. They all sang Happy
birthday in English and Spanish.
Every class I had I was sung Happy birthday in English and Spanish. I
think I was sung happy birthday in one day more than all my other
birthdays put together.
Sor Lorena took me out for a Hot Chocolate and Yummy as cake!
Alejandra took me out for a yummy as Lemon Pie, which I adore and
Hot Chocolate.
Lunch with the Sisters and the Priest that comes on Thursdays. Very
cool!!! I chose my favourite Chilean food which is Empanadas of
Cheese and of Meat. Then Sor Lorena and Orieta made the yummiest
biggest cake ever!!! Of Chocolate, Vanilla and Manjar and
Cream!!!!!! 1000000 points!!!!!!!! Also we had Pisco Sour, which is
the Chilean liquor that I love!!!!
I waited after lunch to open my present from the sisters, and as I was
opening it, I read "Lady Jane lingerie!!!" I'm thinking, "is this okay to
open in front of the priest?" I asked Sor Anita and she's like "no don't
open it", but I keep going very slowly and carefully and inside is a
Clock of Chile and a CD that I really like and have been wanting to
buy. It has one of the sisters that showed me around Santiago singing
on it and it is beautiful. Anyway, it was a very good laugh.
In the evening I was invited up to the other dormitory and the girls up
there had a ceremony for me and wrote a beautiful letter and it was
lovely. When I went to bed - my bed had been short sheeted!!!!! The
sheet was tied in knots and I had all the toys of the girls to sleep with.
(wasn't that kind of them). Actually I loved it!
Time for the cake (yes another one) and after the Happy Birthday,
they tell me it is a Chile tradition to bite the cake (like we scream when
you first cut the cake). I am having a hard time with this and don't
believe them. Also I just can't phsyically bit the cake it is unhygenic or
something. Anyway finally I pluck up the courage and do it only to find
my face totally in it!!!!! Very funny!!!!!!!!!! What a sucker I
am!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A huge thank you to everyone who made my day sooooo special!!!!!
Especially Alejandra and Sor Lorena!!!!!!!!!!!! You two are the best
and I am really thank you to have to as my friends here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well that is all I have to say. I hope all of you are happy and living up
life.
love and Godbless
JILLxxoxoxoxoxoxox
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