It's been a month

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It's been a month since I've updated this. Wow. It doesn't seem like a lot of time, but I've been busy. I hope I can remember it all.



To beging, Yesterday I went to Cobquecura. It's a little ocean town about 2 hours away from here. It's really beautiful and you can still see the destruction from the earthquake from 2 years ago. For lunch I had REinton or some odd fish like that, and it was really delicious. My sister joked that it was taking so long because they had to fish it up. After lunch some of us went and walked around the town and the others stayed for desert. I walked around the town, and followed the tsunami evactuation route to the highest point in the town, along which told some bible stories, leading to a giant cross at the top. After that we went to the beach, to a place called Iglesia de Piedra, or stone church. They are some huge caverns right there, and you can climb to the top. It's really beautiful and big. When I was in the cavern it was so dark, and so big, It was a little bit different. After that we headed home.

I also went to Temuco, it's a town about 3 hours to the south. It's, if i remember, the "final" frontier of the Mapuches, the native indians here. It was in reality a giant town. With a huge casino. They had some interesting souvieners, but I didn't buy one but I wish I did now. But I'm not worried about it.

There was also the harvest of the corn here. Btw, I live on a giant corn field basically. It's still going on, but it's really different without the giant fields of corn to look at it. Of course it's still beautiful, but the dogs won't have rabbits to chase through the corn now. It's amazing how fast the machines can harvest the corn.

I'm also missing my family and my life in the US of A. It's really obvious that I don't belong here, and people stare, because they don't normally see gringos I guess. It really bothered me, but a couple days ago when I was in a major town with my sister, there were a lot of people trying to talk to me in english, and a group of chicks screamed gringo, and roughly translated walk closer to him. It doesn't bother me, and while I don't love it, I don't hate it and it doesn't bother me.

The life here is great, the country is great, and the people are wonderful.

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