Blogs from Valparaíso Region, Chile, South America - page 79

Well I finally am finishing up my portfolio for my first internship with Propiedades Berdichevsky. Thank goodness that is almost over. I have created a 35-Page marketing plan which is currently being edited since Spanish isn't my first language. In addition to the 35 page marketing plan I have created 3 PowerPoint presentations, and 9 advertisement examples. YEAHHHHH!!! I will begin my new internship on Monday at UPLA working with Emi as well dealing with the marketing for the university. It's going to be a challenge to try to get it in Oscar's mind that miracles don't occur over the course of a few months. I hope I can handle the protests that will occur. I have heard some stories, so maybe it'll be exciting to see it for myself. I hope that all of you ... read more

This is just an note to notify those of you who knew that I had a free website message service for voice messages that I have purposely disconnected it for personal reasons. You may contact me through this travel blog or through email if you wish to contact me in any form or fashion. I hope that everything is going well for each and everyone of you. Love and miss you all. ... read more

Before sunshine there's always rain. It has been raining this week and today was the first day the sun came out. A simple day of sunshine has the ability to brighten your entire life and open the window for more light to shine threw. I never knew that it could clear your vision and make things easier to see that were never all that clear before. This day for me started out to be quite tranquil (a word I have the tendency to use these days instead of calm). I went to class learned about some pronombres and how they are placed in the structure of a sentence. I came home and chatted with family and friends for a brief moment before I headed to Emi's. Before getting to Emi's I really wanted to drink some ... read more

So I can't believe that we are in May already! Things have been going great here and Im sad that we only have 2 months left cause the time is going to fly by! On May 18th to the 23rd I will be at Easter Island, "Isla de Pascua" a.k.a. "El ombligo del mundo"--The belly button of the world!!!! which Im very excited about because its one of the most remote places in the world, 5 1/2 hours off the coast of Chile. We are going to be camping on the beach and renting a car so that we can check out the whole island. Im just excited cause they "lae" (spelling?!?) you when you get off the plane! But Im exstatic about being able to see the Moai statues. http://www.rapanui.cl/eng/index.html http://www.mysteriousplaces.com/Easter_Island/ http://www.southpacific.org/text/finding_easter.html So as for ... read more

So today was my first day teaching English (ingles)(profesora-teacher) at Ruben Castro Colegio--they even call me profesora which is pretty cool!!! I have a classroom of 15 students, ages 14-15 years old. A few of them speak conversation english, half the class speak more or less, a few words here or there. The rest not a word. So it was quite interesting to deal with those who could answer my questions and those who couldnt, as I tried to speak very little Spanish to them so that they can get used to hearing and speaking only in English. They all learn British english here so it was interesting to hear lil bits of the british english pop in every now and then. I have three tests this week, two I dont even really know what they ... read more