Well, I've arrived. Chile is well...quite chilly! It must be like 35 or 40 degrees outside! Considering they are on the tail end of winter down here, I guess I should have expected it. Our apartments are so cool, and our group dynamics are pretty awesome as well. Everyone has such a good spirit of adventure and is so good about meeting all these...

Life is so great here! Everything is designed to go in much slower motion than in the U.S. A trip to the grocery store involves a 20 minute walk (along the Pacific Coast, mind you), getting your supplies (which is confusing when you can't even find peanut butter in the store), and a taxi ride or other long walk back to your apartment. Bread some...

Well we're back home as of Saturday afternoon, and by home I do mean our apartments at Roca Blanca in Vina del Mar. I am so glad to be out of the snow. Portillo was so much fun, but it was an exhausting vacation. We leave for Punta Arenas on Saturday morning...the "last city" at the end of South America. We'll be touring Patagonia and even slipp...