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My senior year of college was a time marked by both incredible growth as well as a period of brokenness. Much like my junior year, I had relatively few “posts” in the first semester. While junior year posts in the fall were replaced by my Chile Updates, senior year was almost a period of silence. [...]

The first part of junior year was spent abroad. While this section contains a handful of updates during that time, the majority of my thoughts and photos are found in my Chile Updates. =) My thoughts and experiences through the second half of junior year during 2004 are below:

8/11/03, 1945 EST – Considering that I’m [...]

Just like I got sucked into theFacebook , it looks like I’ve been sucked into Xanga as well… but just like I hardly ever use Facebook, I doubt I’ll use this much… the only reason I signed up was that I’ve been pestered to join so that my faithful few who visit [...]

Location: Los Angeles, California

Dear Friends and Family,
My five months of “study abroad” in Chile have come to an end, and I’ve just arrived back home in Los Angeles… It’s different to be back and I don’t know whether to miss being abroad or to be happy to be home. =)
Anyway, I just wanted to [...]

Location: Santiago, Chile

Dear Friends and Family,
After two weeks of traveling throughout the region of Patagonia, I finally returned to Santiago to rest for a few days before I’ll be heading back to Mexico City, Los Angeles, and eventually, Philadelphia. My study abroad experience is nearly over and I can finally say that I’ve done [...]

Location: Puerto Natales, Chile

Dear Friends and Family,
After four exhausting, but very worthwhile days trekking through PN Torres del Paine, I’ve returned to civilization and am finishing up my Patagonian adventure. In another three days, I’ll be back in Santiago and another three days after that, back home to Mexico City.
Anyway, I thought I’d share [...]

Location: Campamento Italiano, PN Torres del Paine, Chile

Dear Friends and Family,
I had originally planned to summarize my trip to PN Torres del Paine in one update but after two full days of spectacular sights, there was no way that I was going to be able to share everything at one go. So, I figured [...]

Location: Ushuaia, Argentina

Dear Friends and Family,
After two days of sailing across the stormy Drake Passage to return through the Beagle Channel, I found myself in the Argentinean city of Ushuaia which prides itself as being “The End of the World, The Beginning of Everything.” Anyway, I wanted to quickly share about the events of [...]

Location: Punta Arenas, Chile

Dear Friends and Family,
As the official semester down here approaches its end, I’ve already begun my final “adventure” to the extreme south after a brief 24 hour break in Santiago after my Peru experience. In the past two years that I’ve been flying back and forth between Los Angeles and Philadelphia, [...]

Location: Lima, Peru

Dear Friends and Family,
December is already here and it’s hard to believe that I’ll be heading home in about 3 weeks. By the time I got to this update, I was supposed to be done with school but somehow, I still have one final paper to get done in these next three [...]