I started writing an entry, but apparently it got erased. I am sitting with my university hermana Karin, and i just finished my first day not too long ago. Classes were alright. My mapuche class was great. A mapuche man came and gave us a wonderful brief introduction to mapuche beliefs, including religion and culture. Its amazing how most religions ( Read more... )

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Joyce
Studys literature at UCSD

Jeremy
Studies something concerning ecology at UCB

Jimmy
Studies international relations at UCSD

Josh
Studies history of latin america at UCD

Gina
Studies Comp Lit at UCSB

Leslie
Studies Community Studies at UCSC

along with...

Nate
Studies History at UCI

and

Pamela
Studies business and psycology at UCR

My family consists of Cecilia Muñoz, a single mother of 3. The oldest, (nickname: Jany) works at the hospital and has a three year old daughter named Sol. Next in line is a son who no longer lives at the house but frequents periodically. He is a dentists and works in a building over looking the main plaza in the city. The youngest, at 25 is Juan ( Read more... )

Robert Sepeda
Freire 1730 2° piso
Concepción, VIII Región
Chile

The universidad de concepción was built in the mid 1900´s, modeled after the university of california-berkeley. A campanile stands at the center followed by a huge grass field with buildings close by in a 1 km radius. Last night, seeing the clock tower lit, reminded me dearly of the university i left behind, and upon first seeing it on our first ( Read more... )

Concepción is the capital of the VIII region, región bio bio, named after the countries largest river that seperates the city from its providence, san pedro. Boasted as being the countries second or third largest city Conce (its nickname) is extremely industrial, be it as it may, tourism is not concepcións strongest point. The lack of tourists adds ( Read more... )

While the internet is available, it doesnt look like i will be able to use it often nor for as long as i would like. it might change, but i am not expecting it too. This, along with the fact that my laptop lcd screen has decided to die. (along with my i-pod) makes me a little disappointed in macs, and with the fact that my goal to leave accurate ( Read more... )

The last day in Florence came and went ( Read more... )

well, i have been writing for more than half an hour about first real day in florence but apparently all of that seems to have been erased. instead of being terribly upset and swearing that i will never write another word of it again, instead i will calmly go over in much much briefer terms the events that occurred right before i stopped writing ( Read more... )