The Rotary Conference was good and bad. The first day was long and boring. We just had talks about the rules mainly. Some of the rules I think are so dumb! Like, my family cannot visit until after the 8th month. and no one else is allowed to visit me besides my immediate family. Not that anyone else would, but how can you say to someone, no you cannot come here to see your loved one? It really upset me. And I have a feeling that people will say to me that I shouldn’t have put stuff like that in my blog, but I don’t care. It’s how I feel.
We also are not supposed to have boyfriends/girlfriends in our home countries. In some ways I can see why that would be a good idea. I know that it has put a lot of stress on Angie, but for me it’s been what gets me through sometimes. I don’t get to talk to Daniel often, but having someone loving me and trusting me at home really makes me feel good.
Thirdly, our travel regulations are kinda ridiculous. Like we aren’t allowed to go anywhere if not accompanied by a Rotarian. So, my parents wanted to take me to Buenos Aires to see Cony’s school, but I’m not allowed to go because I’m not going with a rotary function. And the students are not allowed to travel together. If we wanted to get together for our own reunion, we wouldn’t be allowed unless it was a planned Rotary event. And Sr. Montalvo said that he really doesn’t want us leaving the district. So that would mean no Chile for me either. This is really such a bummer. I could go see beautiful places for free with my family, but Rotary is like forcing me to have to pay a lot of money to go on Rotary trips to these places.
Oh, so that reminds me, also, when our parents visit, we are not allowed to go to any other cities with them. So, I couldn’t take them to Foz or anything because once again, it’s not a Rotary function.
The other thing that we did the first day of the conference was talk about the trips that we are able to go on. There are the Brasil trips and the Southern Argentina trip. To be honest, the southern argentina trip doesn’t interest me at all. It is 17 of going around Patagonia and going to all the national parks and trekking all through the wilderness. That really doesn’t appeal to me. All I want to see is 1 penguin and that’s all. I don’t need 17 days of wilderness. The other trip is to the North beaches of Brasil. It looked absolutely amazing. You spend a day in the world largest water park. Go to remote beaces. Go snorkeling. So amazing. And it’s for a whole month. I want to go on it so so so so badly, but I don’t know that I have the money to do that. I honestly don’t know what I’m going to do. I know my parents said that they would help with a trip, but it really so so expensive. It’s like 3000 dollars. I mean, it is for a whole months, but still. I need to talk to my parents about it, but they haven’t been online in forever. I honestly haven’t talked to them recently and I really need to.
Well, honestly, I am exhausted and need to sleep. I will finish this tomorrow.
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