Well, it’s that time of the year again: finals! Which means that, having finished stalking friends on facebook, answered all me emails, and stared at the ceiling for long periods of time in search of procrastion, I’m now faced with the two choices that remain: do my homework, or update my blog. I’ll do my homework later.

Last week was Kate and my last visit to Villa Huidif, the home for girls where we have been tutoring English. By tutoring, I mean that one of us helps whichever older girl who happens to feel like doing homework that day, while the other teaches the little girls how to make oragami fortune tellers for the fifteenth time. We have fun, and I feel like the one-on-one tutoring is much more successful than the attempt at teaching classes that Ryan and I made last semester.

For our last day, we each brought our cameras to take a few pictures. This is what I learned:

Two cameras + 15-ish girls under the age of 8 = complete and utter chaos.

Kate and I were lucky to escape alive. Our cameras were taken out of our hands almost the instant we pulled them out of our bags, and we spent the next hour and a half trying to prevent fights and tears over whose turn it was to take a picture. The concept of lines and turns doesn’t really exist in Chile, so asking the girls to be patient and wait until their friend had finished taking her picture didn’t go over too well. Fortunately, the girls were generally good photographers. Here are a few of the results:

The husky was an important theme for awhile, until he got thrown into a corner in a fight for the camera.

Cutie...also quick to work up the tear when she didn't get the camera

Even when they are out of control, you can't help but love these girls

 

Bernarda...my favorite

Some people leave their hearts in San Francisco; I left part of my leg with El Flaco in Chile