Sorry its been a while since I updated. I have been really busy. This last weekend was filled with adventures. On Friday afternoon we took the bus to Reñaca which is a little beach town like 15 minutes from Viña. It was a gorgeous day and we relaxed on the beach and climbed on lots of rocks. It was a perfect way to spend a Friday afternoon. The view was great and since its still considered winter the beach was almost completely empty. While we were walking on t...

Hola a todos! Let me start off by saying thanks for all the birthday wishes and other messages on the message board. Its so nice to know that there are so many people who are following my travels and especially thinking of me on birthday. On Tuesday I turned 21! Overall it was a pretty good birthday considering I was thousands of miles away from my closest friends and family. But the people I was with made it very specail. I started off the day by treati...

This weekend I got to experience some more authentic chilean life. On Friday night we went a coffee shope in Valpariaso to see a little theatrical performance by some students from UAI. My favorite part about it was that the coffee shop was non-smoking, something pretty much non-existant in Chile. The play was pretty good too. It was somewhat difficult understand because it was in Spanish and they were speaking very quickly and had very little of the sign languag...

Hello Friends, Its finally starting to feel like I'm living here, instead of just on a great vaction. I've got my routine down and I'm really starting to feel at home in the city and in my apartment. This week has been pretty low key so far, no really great adventures but just overall quality days. On Sunday I went to the beach to do some "studying" with friends. Very little actual work got done but we had a great time anyway. We witnessed a moth...

Hola Todos! Well I've now been here for more than a week and what an adventure! The last few days have been quite busy. On Wednesday night we went to Santiago to see a documentary about Ariel Dorfman. It was the premier of the film so Dorfman himself was there which was really cool. The other super cool part was that it was shown in a theater inside La Moneda, the presidential palace. It was really cool to be able to see that one site in Chile, though we g...