Yeah. . .it's been months since my last post

Well, it's been such a long time now since I last blogged that I'm not too sure where to begin. Since then, my family has come to visit, I traveled with Caryn to Argentina and Uruguay, we went camping (like for real camping, the no bathrooms no showers way), we traveled to the south of Chile and hung out with the penguins, I moved into a house with a family, traveled home for a few weeks, and returned to Chile to the craziness that awaited.

Right now, Caryn and I have made ourselves pretty busy, leaving me exhausted at the end of each day and only wanting to hang out with the kitty at my family's house. Basically, we're teaching English to four grades at a school, teaching an English class to young girls at the Casa Ursulina, leading a class called Reflection and Art, helping out with pregnant teens, entertaining senior citizens, and beginning a youth group. Today was a big day for me, as I made my first public announcement in Spanish at the end of Mass to introduce our youth group which will begin meeting next week. I have to say, normally I'm not too nervous about public speaking, but today was a bit nerve-wrecking. In the end it turned out fine, and I'm glad that I could finally feel comfortable enough in Spanish to get up in front of a few hundred people to make an understandable announcement. For those of you who helped me collect cameras, this youth group is the group that will be benefiting from your donations!

The weather is still decent here, but you can certainly tell that it's getting cooler now and it's getting darker earlier at night. I'm glad to still have some warm weather left, but the cold weather is creeping in and making me dread it all the more.

Alright, hopefully I'll start doing a better job blogging again from here on out. Peace!