Oh, wow! Wow! Wow! We just completed week three of Escuela de Española. We are learning but we are raw, green as a gourd, pre-pubescent! We have a so far to go. But here's the cool thing. I can go into a shop and make my wishes and questions known. Maybe we are becoming competent tourists?? Ok enough of that except to say our days are full! If Stan and I are not in class we are walking back to son casa where we practica, practica and complete the day's ho...

Santiago - March 7 & 8, 2020 - Very exciting days! I am still trying to let all that we saw and heard today sink in. I've never witnessed or been a part of something so big, so important, and so meaningful. Our expectations were great. We heard that perhaps a million women would gather on Avenue de Alamedas beginning at Plaza de Italia to march toward the center of the city, and they did. We watched as women, young, old and all ages in between . . . and so...

Santiago, Chile - School, 2nd Week - 2-6 de Marzo, 2020 I'm here to state once again, learning Espanol is difficult, muy deficil, especially in your seventy-third year of age. I somehow think my brain is still pretty sharp but when quizzed by the professor, suddenly my mind goes haywire like the drawing in the Peanuts cartoon where a crazy line goes round and round in an ugly tangle. Words! My Lord, we have been introduced to so many new words and we have, inde...

Valparaiso, Vina Del Mar, Chile - February 29 - March 1, 2020 Today is a Leap Year Day. . a very lucky day. It is also Stan's bonus day to remain a year younger. Manana es el cumpleanos de Stan! We celebrated Stan's birthday today and booked a day-trip to the coast. We had a fantastic guide and a fantastic day. The tour package included pick-up at our apartment and a trip out of Santiago, along the mountain side valleys through Casa Blanca to Vina Del Mar, then...

Espanola! Santiago - February 26-27, 2020 Day three and four are complete! Our heads are spinning. After the first day of lessons our brans were in pain. . . . I have decided. I am not going to write descriptions of the blow by blow stress we are enduring. , I'm not going to elaborate on how difficult this endeavor may be. Enough! It's hard. I've made this point. But we are getting there. We have to force ourselves NOT to Say "do you speak E...