Oh my God...

...the minister of education is ugly as HELL

So I attended the seminar Michael Fullan gave at Crown Plaza. It was about the latest ideas on school reform and teacher behavior, very interesting stuff if you ask me. Everybody who was 'someone' in the education world was there, the head of the CPEIP, the head of Microsoft Chile, who happens to be also a history teacher, the head of the education department of ONU for South America and finally our Minister of education, who is as I said, ugly as hell...and stupid...and can't memorize a speech even if her life depended on it.

On 2006 I attended another seminar at Crown Plaza, but only this time I put real attention to my surroundings. The 'room' where the seminar was held was *huge*, we were around 1500 people there and there was still more space available for another 100 or so. This hotel is *so* damn cool, and the coffee break wasn't bad either, I ate lots of chocolate and butter cookies, yummy!

Michael Fullan reminded me of Santa Claus without beard, chubby and smiley, but he is totally awesome, his ideas about education and the way he expresses himself is wonderful, I think I've finally found my roll model. I'm not gonna write down the notes I took at the seminar because I think it's better to read his books , but I have to say Santa took my breath away.

The only problem about the seminar was the time, I wonder what the heck were they thinking when they planned a seminar at 8:30 am! Everybody was falling asleep during the first 45 minutes, myself included, and then they said 'coffee break' and we all ran towards the cookies. Chileans...

I left Crown Plaza at 1:30 pm approximately and then I called my friend Jose. We had been wanting to go to the movies for ages and yesterday was the only day I could go because I was leaving for Viña del Mar the next day. She said 5:20 was fine and I went to eat something in the meantime. Then my friend Dani called to tell me that she couldn't have me at her house in Viña del Mar because a project had come along and she *had* to take it or she was going to die, yadda, yadda, yadda, so in the end all my plans of roasting myself like a chicken went down the drain, as usual.

Pissed as I was, I went to the cinema, bought the tickets and waited for Jose, but she didn't arrive at 5:20 nor 5:30 or 5:45, in the end she arrived at 6:00 pm. I swear I was about to faint. In the meantime my boyfriend called (yeah! he is alive!) and since Carola told me I had to follow my heart and be true to my feelings if I wanted transparency in our relationship (yeah, we had a heart to heart talk which reminded me of karate kid, a lot...dunno why) I told him I missed the hell out of him, and he said he missed me too...and I believe him...BUT I SO DAMN MISS HIM MORE, DAMMIT!

I swear this is like a huge conspiracy against my mental health, worse than area 51, or the pyramids, or the Kennedy murder. I bet God is laughing his ass off right now and thinking: why don't I ruin all her plans for going on holidays and make her wait like frigging Penelope for her boyfriend? Isn't that a great idea, Isn't it? Isn't it? What do you think Gabriel?, Huh? Huh?? This is so_not_fair, I'm an independent woman, dammit! I'm so pissed right now I could bite somebody's head off! I'm not used to miss people, I hate that! I dunno what the hell is the Lord trying to teach me this time, because He knows I'm patient as hell, and it is not necessary for me to practice now, thank you very much.

URGH! I NEED VALIUM! ::end rant::

Back to Jose...

Since we had missed the first 45 minutes of the movie (lol) I told her I could buy new tickets so we could watch another one, and she said in a very Jose-like manner 'ARE YOU FUCKING CRAZY?' (I love this woman), so she decided we could go and act like we were going to go to watch the movie we missed but enter another auditorium, and of course we did that.

I told her we should hide in the bathroom, so we run for it while she called her mom to ask her for the time of the next movie. The only one which had just began was Alvin and the Chipmunks, so Jose told to her mom we were gonna go and watch it. She said we 'WERE FRIGGING NUTS' (I love her mom) and she hung up.

So we watched Alvin and the Chipmunks, which was really cute, and then we ran to the next auditorium and watched Enchanted, which was as sweet and funny as I imagined it was. (I so have a Disney princess complex.)

I had told my boyfriend I was going to send him a message later so we could chat a little bit more, or we could see each other through our web-cams. Unfortunately Jose and I decided it was time for some girl bonding and left the mall (after talking until our tongues hurt) at 12:00 (yeah for real), and then we kept talking when she went to my house to pick up her x'mas present (a hello kitty clock) and she also gave me one, a light blue handbag, I loved it. In the end I sent him a message at 12:30 or so...and I wanted to kill myself, of course he didn't answer until 11 something...today.

Talking about today...Today Sara, my friend in Chiloe, told me she was leaving on the 21st to Talca instead of the 28th and that she wanted me to go to Ancud in February instead of January so we could be together.

I swear I could listen to God laughing his ass off again.

I e-mailed her back to tell her I *had* to go on January because I *had* to look for a job on February and to study for my Japanese exam. A couple minutes later Dani called me again...and her mom, to tell me that I could go tomorrow to Viña, or right now if I wanted to, because Dani wasn't gonna work on her project until next Wednesday. I declined their offer for two reasons, the first one is because 'everything happens for a reason' and if this happened maybe it was not the right time to go, and number two is because I was still upset at the whole thing.

So...shit, I don't have a home to arrive at when I go to Chiloe with mom, nor I'll see Sara who knows how everything works there, and all my plan have changed again.

Oh! and my boyfriend is coming back in February, or I think he is...and of course I will have no time to see him because I'll be going to my grandmother's house on February and then is the job thing...and the Japanese thing...

The only thing I have for certain is that Jose will take me to Viña del Mar next week, for 2 days, and she want us to go to the casino, which of course with my luck can mean two things:

1) I'll drown in the sea
2) I'll lose all my money at the casino

Hmm, I think I should crawl under my bed and not go out for a couple days...this is not my week...at all.

The year of the rat my ass.