Today consisted of working on my Spanish, helping with chores, and hanging out. I helped unload the dishwasher, took out some trash, checked the bathrooms... Such a hard life! Haha I found a Spanish book that I am reading out loud to myself so my tongue can get used to speaking the words more quickly. I did some photo editing also and I hung out in the nice backyard for a long while. I went with Sandra to buy dog food for Shulz, the hostel dog. He's a little s...

I slept in until about 10 this morning, hitting my snooze a bunch of times before deciding it was time to get up. We only had a few guests stay last night, one of which left today, so we prepared breakfast last night so we all didn't have to wake up early. Sandra makes homemade bread so we had that with butter, jam, etc for breakfast with coffee. The coffee here is the instant kind, so it's not the best, but at least it's coffee! We worked on my spanish a little ...

It is always difficult to say goodbye to friends, even if you have only known them a week. My travel companion for this last week is returning to Santiago and I will continue solo on to the south to Coyhaique. And a six hour bus ride before a flight isn't exactly appealing in that state either. But, goodbyes will hopefully turn into "see you down the road"... I slept on and off the entire bus ride so I didn't see much of the scenery. I had stayed up late the ...

Today I had to figure out how I was going to get to Puerto Montt to catch my flight on Saturday to Balmeceda, which is where I will take a short bus to get to Coyhaique. We weren't sure if I would have to leave today or tomorrow so we packed up and checked out of the cabana and drove over to the bus station to get my ticket. Turns out they had a early bus to Puerto Montt the next day so we could stay another night in Pucon. Yay! I like this city and the company i...

Here is the youtube link to the video I made of our flight around the Villarica Volcano in Pucon. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSRlOYFPRMI Sorry it took so long to upload in the first place!