July 2009
35 posts
the countdown begins...
my time here in chile is quickly winding down, we leave wednesday!
3 more sleeps until blastoff.
for these san pedro pics to be in the right order,... →
Watchit may not look like i am going fast but it felt like it! this is one of my less spectacular falls…i perfected the art of cartwheel-front flip-face plant as i hit divots from other boarders!
who knew that in the desert there is basically...
noemi and i spent the last 4 days or so in San Pedro de Atacama, a desert up in northern chile. it was one of the first places i have ventured to outside of santiago so it was an experience to say the least…it was also my very first real life desert. there are lots of pictures!
how lucky...
so im sitting here in my bedroom right now in a foreign country (where 2 months ago i knew noone other than the staff and intercambios at el oasis) next to freshly cleaned and folded clothes, chatting online in spanish with amazing people that i have met and become friends with, listening to a group of adults sing worship songs downstairs at the house church that my chilean parents host every...
June 2009
24 posts
go to wikipedia and type in mercalli
so im just sitting here in my room on my computer, minding my own business and i hear this rumbling noise and feel my wall shaking. of course the first thing that pops into my mind is that someone is doing something downstairs or running forcefully up the stairs to yield such a result.
then my chilean friend renato gets online and says “Liked the earthquake? :)” what??? so, i just...
pololo! (boyfriend in chilean)
Sorry it has been a while. This past week was very different and really great because Andrew got to come visit for 5 1/2 days! It was so good to see him and we got to do all kinds of fun tourist-y stuff. We definitely walked a lot! Ok so I’m not going to be super cheesy and put a bunch of pictures of the 2 of us (we actually dont even have that many) but here are some highlights of...
