So how was my first day of classes here in Chile.....GREAT seeing as how they were all cancelled!!!! i dont even know why..i showed up for my first class..a history one and it was cancelled. I asked a chilean student and they said that all classes were cancelled. So really I´m off to a great start. One of my friends has an ex-exchange student at her house and she told us today that classes probably wouldnt realy start for another two weeks or so. The once april gets going apparently school is scarce as students are always striking.....I love it!!! Tomorrow [View Full Entry]

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Okay- so its been awhile and a lot has happened. I arrived here in Viña on the 20th and have been busy ever since. I life in a beautiful house in Viña del Mar and attend the Universidad Catolica in Valparaiso. The two cities are different but next to each other so are considered as one. It takes only 10/15 mins for me to get from my house to the University. I am only a few blocks away from the beach--where i have been spending all my free time of course- and only 3 blocks from one of the most popular [View Full Entry]

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soo what can i say..i absolutely love chile and i looveeee all the students from the us. we´ll maybe not all but at least 75 percent of them. everyone is soo much fun and all about having a good time. we´re all makin travel plans and its like we´ve been friends forever...we´ve all been out the past two nites partying it up...here the drink is pisco and you can get it a variety of ways..it reminds me of ...the smell of tequila....smoothness of rum and the after taste of vodka..its soo good though. we ate last nite and a 5 star [View Full Entry]

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Okay so im here in Puerto Montt, Chile. I have been here before so its nice that I can spend the day without feeling lost. Thank god I was able to leave my luggage at the bus station...i really did bring way too much..oh well! Caro and I went out last nite to Wilkenny...the hot spot now in Bariloche. It is an irish pub but its great cause everyone..and i mean everyone goes! We were quite the hit on the dance floor. By the time we got home I had just enough time to shower, dress, finish the last minute packing [View Full Entry]

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in other words..happy valentines day to everyone. so im off to chile tomorrow..i wasnt going to write until i arrived but the most amazing thing happened last nite..caro"s dog had puppies..10 of them ..she was in labor from 10 at nite til 3 am..and we watched them all come out..it was quite gross as well..but they{re soooo cute! again my cell starts workin tomorrow! give me a call! love D [View Full Entry]

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Okay so this will be my last entry from Argentina. I am heading back to Bariloche in a few hours, where I will be until Tuesday. I will be in Chile on Tuesday afternoon and in Santiago on Wednesday. Hopefully my phone will be working when I enter into Chile. I should be in Valparaiso by the 19th or 20th but I will email once I am in Santiago to complain of course about my bus ride. hopefully when i get to valparaiso i will be able to hook up my camera to a comp so i can load all my [View Full Entry]

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ok. so i just arrived a few hours ago in El Calafate...way down south in the patagonia. im staying at a youth hostel..my first...seems really nice though..and clean! tomorrow i am off to the glaciers. http://www.patagonia-argentina.com/i/andina/glaciares/perito.htm ..im totally stoked..the plane ride here was breath-taking. i am here until thurs. then back to bariloche. im staying with friends and on tuesday the 15th i will be off on the bus ride..oh yes..a long bus ride..but hey..umm...it only cost about 25 bucks!!!!to santiago...so that means that on tuesdy-the 15th-in the afternoon my cell [View Full Entry]

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hey ya´ll. i hope everyone is doing well! thanks for all the emails they´re great to read and always make me smile and laugh. if you check out the map of argentina you will all see where i am..san carlos de bariloche..but always referred to bariloche or just bari. so what have i been doing since i arrived....dancing..hey its your fault..you wanted to know what i´ve been up to. i have been out every nite since i´ve been here.. here is an example. maira (my host sis) and i make dinner between 10 and 12..hey thats how they do it here...we [View Full Entry]

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Here is my tentative itinterary for the next month and a half so far........Happy New Year! January 4, 2005: Leave home from Burlington, Vermont and fly to NYC (JFK). 2 Hours later fly from JFK to Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic (POP). Enjoy 3 weeks tanning, swimming and my internship with Ambassadors for Children! January 25, 2005: Fly from Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic to Miami. Stay the night in a hotel. January 26, 2005: 8pm Fly from Miami on Tam Airlines to Sao Paulo, Brazil arriving on the morning of the 27th. After an hour lay-over fly from Sao Paulo to Buenos [View Full Entry]

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Of course you do! So you can either leave a message for me when you check out my travel diary or you can email me at danielle@lclark.edu. Another way to contact me would be to call my cell (thanks to my cousin Meg who just got back from Chile) 011-56-9-756-1485 (if it doesnt work then you may need to add in a 0 in front of the 9)or at the following address... Danielle Renee Beasley (Johnston) Attn: Marcia Vera CIEE-Programa Internacoinal de Intercambio Av. Brasil 2950 Valparaiso, CHILE [View Full Entry]

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