Time to get updated!

Sorry for taking so long to update. I've been really busy with school activities as well as I really just didn't feel like taking the time... So Sorry. I'm going to try to do better.



First of all from quite awhile ago... I tried my first traditional Chilean dish: Cazuela.

Finishing preparing the food.














Gabriel loves to cook :)



The finished dish :)

Ok. So that was literally like a week and a half ago.... I just downloaded the pics.

Next up was that this past Thursday and Friday I had no classes due to competitions in the school. It is Colegio Akros' anniversary and so the school was divided into 2 teams. Alianza Verde Negro (me) and Alianza Blanca Azul (Gabriel). Alianza Blanca Azul won but over all it was a ton of fun.

Our head teacher Ms. Claudia and Margarita









Me attempting to play volleyball.

Francisca, Margarita, and I





Then, finally, this past Sunday my family took me to Viña (aprrox. 1 1/2 hrs away) to the beach and see one set of my grandparents. It was incredibly gorgeous!! For all of those who don't know... I have NEVER seen the ocean before. I was in awe. To say that it was beautiful is incredibly inadequate.




My first view of the ocean

One of my favorite pics. It has the dunes in the background.

My host family and I

These flowers were all over the rock formation where we were. Just in random spots. They were really pretty.










I just loved this pic. :)

I just want to say that it still amazes me that random rock formations that really have nothing supposedly beautiful about them can astound me by their beauty. I was thinking this the entire time.

My host mom told me about a legend in Chile. The legend goes:

     After God finished making the earth, He had some leftovers of all different things. He had no idea what to do with the deserts, mountains, coasts, and other things. Then He decided to put them in Chile. 

It was something like that. I can't totally remember. But I have definitely decided that whether or not He made Chile out of leftovers, God has definitely touched Chile with magnificent beauty.

That's it for now. The 18th is the Bicenntenial of Chile's Independence so be looking for more pics. :)