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-...