Hi everyone

Hey hey, just wanted to let you all know that I am alive and well in Vina del Mar, Chile. I'm looking into additional language lessons, because I had some other video project ideas but decided that they would just be too hard without better Spanish. So I wound up in Vina del Mar for a month with a furnished apartment. Vina is a beach resort town (although out of season, it being winter here and all) with a pleasant atmosphere, and is a short bus away from Valparaiso, a large port town and UN World Heritage site (it's pretty much one of the cutest damn cities I've ever seen). I am still trying to work on getting my interview with Omar Bello, CEPAL's in-house Bolivia expert. Santiago is only an hour by bus, so once I have something scheduled getting there will be no big deal. In the meantime, I just chalk everything up to "Spanish practice."