Brian-

Sorry it has been so long since my last post. We have been very busy taking Spanish classes and exploring Santiago. I am slowly working on getting photos up on this site hopefully I will be able to post some more soon. The current photos are of our Summer Camp in Copiapo. Since we posted last Lindsay and I have gone to an interactive museum in Santiago with our host family. That was fun, it reminded me of the OMSI in Oregon. Last week we had a tour of a really old cementary that was built in the early 1800's. We also went to a small town close to Santiago named Pomeaire. The town's commerce centered around pottery. Almost everybody in the town is involved in making different pottery. There were a ton of small pottery stores with really cheap pottery. Lindsay and I also got to try and make some pottery both with and with out a pottery wheel. This last weekend we got to go to another little town outside Santiago called San Jose de Maipu. We stayed in a hostel up in the mountains and went hiking and swimming in a little river. It was very relaxing and a lot of fun.

We finish Spanish classes this week (Friday) and on Saturday we fly out to Arica, on the border of Chile and Peru, with a friend from English Opens Doors named Candice. We then are going to Arequipa (Peru) and then on to Cuzco (Peru). In Cuzco we are going to spend a couple of days looking at the city and Incan ruins around the city and then heading to Machu Picchu. After Machu Picchu we are going to Puna (Peru) which is close to Lake Titicaca. We will spend a few days there and then head to La Paz (Bolivia). We will then make our way down to Mendoza in Argentina stopping a couple of places yet to be determined on the way down. Finally back in Santiago on March 5th. It should be an interesting trip. We are going to take buses and trains through Peru, Bolivia and Argentina.

I will update again in a week if I have access to the internet.

Hope everybody is doing well.