Alex Leal

Heya Everybody! SO. This is my second attempt at creating a travel blog for er, well...me and my um...travels... Haha, ANYway, the next trip I'll be blogging about is to DENMARK. Yes, friends, I'll finally be "jumping the lake" (that is, crossing the Atlantic. See, it's like the ocean is just a big lake and...yeahnevermind). ANYWAY, I'll be going to study at the Danish Institute for Study Abroad (or more commonly, DIS (I'm not sure what happened to the A, but just go with it)) in Copenhagen, DK for four months for the "Medical Practice and Policy" program. I'll be taking five classes while at DIS, nearly all of which are related to medicine. They will be Danish 141 (obviously the one course NOT related to medicine), "The Complexity of Cancer," "Medical Ethics," "Psychopharmacology: Substances and ... read more

Well helloooooooooooooooooo everybody! :D So here's the next big blog. I'm guessing that not everyone knows this, so I'll give you a quick heads-up: a while ago an opportunity came up to go to Peru with my host family on vacation! Not only that, but I eventually got them to make Machu Picchu a part of the itinerary--Whoo!!! :D I was writing a detailed account of the trip to my uncle, and then partway through decided it would make a very good blog SO, here's the letter! (sorry I didn't actually send the thing via e-mail, but I'm sure you'll get it anyway!) PERU TRIP, JANUARY 2011 Hey Uncle Jaime! How are you? :) Hope all is well! You wanted to know about my trip to Peru and Machu Picchu, so here ya go! :D I ... read more

Well THIS is a fail! No WONDER everyone thought I haven't blogged for so long! I just was looking through my entries and I realized that this blog was marked as "Saved" instead of "Published" so you guys never got to see it, even though I finished it way back in the beginning of January! I have no idea how that happened, but sorry! A Few Minor Events (months late (oops (sorry))) Well hello everybody! Soo….it’s kind of been absolute AGES since my last blog. Sorry about that… :S Honestly, I've either been way too busy or too lazy to write blogs :S Due to my writing style (extremely detailed and overworded, though accurate) it usually takes me a good 5 or 6 hours to write a full, proper blog. So aaaaaanyway….let’s get on with this ... read more

*Note:Hahaha I apologize to all those “Anti Myley Cirus” people out there for the title of this blog. Hey everybody! Soooo I think I’m going to abandon formality for this blog and write as I think (so I apologize for the vast numbers of parenthesis (and resulting chaos)) Also, this blog is going to be a two-day process, so I’ll be writing it as though it were Sunday the entire time (therefore if I say “yesterday” it means, Saturday, etc.) This week has been very (wow THAT’s a boring adjective. How about “incredibly?”) interesting! Honestly, I thought that life would have started slowing down by now, but…not even close. Okay here’s a quick overview for my own personal use so I don’t forget anything: -Pulmahue -Coro -Jazz Fest -Cueca -Acompañero -Copiapo -El Rio -Fútbol -Fiestas Patrias/Nationalism ... read more

WOW. I’m here! Holy cow, I still can’t quite believe it….I’m in CHILE! Something like six thousand miles away from good ol’ Rice Lake. Hmm…I suppose I oughta update you on what’s happened since my last blog, huh?* *Note: Just a warning that I am an extremely long-winded person when it comes to writing. So now you’ve been warned for this and subsequent blogs :P SO, I last I got a call last week saying that my visa was finally ready, and I had to pick it up from the Chilean Consulate in Chicago at 9:30 Friday morning. My parents and I drove down to Chicago Thursday night and picked the visa up the next morning. I found out shortly thereafter that I would be leaving at 4:00 PM on Thursday, August 19th. I spent the ... read more