Currently with my brother, lazing around on the beach in Uruguay, which is quickly becoming one of my favorite places. Will be home on Tuesday, and am a little wigged out about it. Speaking English all the time, missing Spanish, which is odd considering that I'm in a Spanish-speaking country. Totally anti-social in hostel--a little turned off by ( Read more... )

if anybody didn't see this yet, I am alive and well. I didn't even feel the quake ( Read more... )

Some news is in ( Read more... )

I have been floating in a cloud of contentment for the past few weeks. Life is, at least for now, really, really good ( Read more... )

Back in Santiago briefly. Catalina leaves tonight, and I'm a little sad about it. More later (in a few hours).

slowly but surely, blogs and photos are getting posted and backdated. nothing too interesting going on there--mostly, it's just a journal of events. but it's up and running!

just a quick note for anyone who's interested and waiting for an update: I am alive, and in the Peruvian city of Arequipa, called the white city, or the city of the moon, because of the white rock all the important buildings here are made of. I'm using the free internet at our hotel (yes, we're staying in a hotel here, which is an interesting story ( Read more... )

Catalina's flight is scheduled to land in an hour ( Read more... )

Everyone has been posting beautiful photos from Sara's wedding, so I'd just like to get in line and add a humble "congratulations!" to the heaping pile at the top of what's likely to be a stupid and meandering blog post. I wish you all the luck and happiness in the world ( Read more... )

So, I don't know if I've written about my language woes yet, but in brief, they go like this ( Read more... )