Have spent the weekend in Rancagua. On Saturday, as I mentioned we went up into the mountains, up passed the El Teniente mine. That is one of the biggest in Chile and my brother in law is actually one of the jefes (bosses) there. 2IC I believe. He got offered a job in Perth but he decided not to take it. They have five kids so it is hard to ( Read more... )

We are down in Rancagua for the weekend. We had a very nice day today - went for a bit of a walk in a national park about an hour's drive from here. You could see snow and some incredible mountains (ie, the Andes). I took some pictures, I will get them up online later ( Read more... )

So all the family have headed home- it's time to begin the real Chilean experience. So I got in touch with this English language news org- I Love Chile- they make a paper, have a website, an online radio and are talking about doing a TV show also, and I read they take internships so I got in touch with them about that.

I will begin my internship ( Read more... )

So I started writing for BMA recently....I haven't actually had anything in there yet, but my debut is going to contain 2 stories that I wrote (Shihad and Despised Icon ( Read more... )

It feels strange having been at home a while, just before 8pm, plenty of time before going to sleep, nothing to do, not much to worry about ( Read more... )

I seriously can't wait to not be at work on the weekend. That will be such a nice change ( Read more... )