This is Federica from Germany. Now I am living in San Juan. I am really happy here, I love my family. They have a son my age and a daughter two years older- We go out a lot with friends.

I have also started to play field hockey here. There isn’t synthetic grass here in San Juan, but we still play! The team that I am on is going to play in a tournament in Mendoza (the capital of Mendoza Province ---2-3 hours away), which will be next week. I am only going to be here until the end of April, but I will still get to play in 5 games, which makes me really happy.

I like the community service as well. It is in a kindergarten, with a lot of young women who also work there. The kids are from 0-5 years old, but I work a lot with the babies. All of the kids play together though, so I also get to be with the older children. I really love playing with them all. There is a gym-teacher that comes two times a week with whom the kids get to do a little bit of exercise.

All of the kids are very poor. Sometimes the babies are dirty and when their mothers come to pick them up it seems like they don´t really care about their babies. That is what is hard for me to see and understand! But oh well…

I have to leave the country to before the 13 of April (to get a new tourist visa) I want to go to Chile with my “sister” here. There is a bus that goes from San Juan to Santiago; it’s only 7 hours!

I was really happy to hear from you, thanks for the email!

Saludos de San Juan!!