Today at school was a pretty boring day. Then after school I
walked into the center with Vicente (he had preu) to go meet up with Katie. We
hung out, I bought supplies to make Oreo bonbons for Monse’s birthday, and then
we met up with Katie H, Sally, Pierre, Louis, Nigel, and Nicolo in the food
court. We were supposed to be having a meeting with the heads of Rotary from
Santiago at 4 in the food court.
We waited around for them (and got McFlurrys
from McDonalds) until 5:30 when they finally showed up. We wanted to discuss
the many problems we’ve had with the Rancagua Rotary Club (basically Monchito
and the club show absolutely no interest whatsoever in us… they’ve invited us
to one meeting in 10 months, we hear from Monchito, our counselor, about once
every 3 months, and he never pays us on time), be paid our monthly salary for
June, and ask if we could get the $400 security deposit that we had made at the
beginning of the year back as soon as possible. They seemed very helpful and
like they wanted to solve our problems and really cared about us, but I have
had this same conversation and made these same complaints to so many different
Rotarians so many different times, and nothing is ever done to fix anything, so
I really don’t have much hope. The one really good thing that did come out of
the meeting was that Clara, the president of Rotary, forced Monchito to allow
me to give a speech in front of the Rancagua Rotary Club next Wednesday to explain
to them exactly how abandoned they have made us feel this year. I am not the
person that can sit around and let people get away with doing things wrong of
unjustly, and before I can leave Chile in peace I need for Rotary to know what
they have done to us. I also truly want these practices to change for all the
future exchange students that come through Rancagua.
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| the micro home |
Anyway, around 7:30 I took
a micro home, made the Oreo bonbons for
Monse, ate once with my family (and filled them in on all the juicy details
from the meeting since they hate Rotary Rancagua as much as I do) and then went
to sleep later than usual.
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