Well, I've crossed over into Chile again and have been having a great time over here. But before I get into that I should tell you how the rest of my time in Bariloche was. So I ended up staying in Bariloche for 4 weeks taking spanish class. I learned quite a bit, diving into subjunctive verb tenses and trying to improve my grammar and vocabulary. I went hiking up a mountain one afternoon with my British buddy and another guy and ended up staying at a refugio...

Well, this was my last week in Pucon. After three weeks, my spanish has vastly improved. While I still have a heck of a time understanding people when they speak fast and still have to take time to make sure that what I am saying is mostly correct, I feel much better with conversing with others and sometimes it is very natural. However, I know I´ve still got a long way to go and am off to Bariloche, Argentina to take more class. So the whole time I have ...

Hola everybody from Pucon, Chile!  Well, I´ve survived my second week here in South America with only a couple scratches and am doing well.  This week consisted of learning a bunch of past tenses in spanish and making plans for what I should do after here.  In the mix of this week were some funny situations and all in all a good time. First, I have to say this, conversing in spanish is way difficult!  Whoever said that spanish is an...

Hola everyone from Pucon, Chile.  Well, I´ve survived my first week in South America and I am doing well.  As far as communicating is going, I am doing well (certainly better than my first day here) and can converse with people, abait slowly.  And even though I can converse, it is very hard for me to form complete sentences that make sense and harder still for me to understand what others are saying.  I probably only understand about 30-...