Working in Chile

Hola
Arrived safely in Santiago and spent the first 28 Chile hours checking out the city...We went to a very touristy dinner place and then were escorted home by a gang of homeless dogs...(Ramona wasn´t kidding when she said there are more dogs here then people!)
On Sunday we flew to Temuco where we´re staying in a Baptist School for girls. The girls are very shy so we´ve only seen a couple of them so far. The accomodations are great and remind me a lot of my university days....

Our build is in Nuveo Imperial, a small town about 45 minutes from Temuco...The first two days of work have been great...my favourite part of any build is framing and our group has been assigned to that...the other groups are jealous as they are rotating through digging hole, mixing cement and getting covered in tar. (the tar is used to coat the joists...) We´re hoping to put all the walls up tomorrow....

Our team is such a great crew....and from the picture, you can see that we´re having a lot of fun together....We seem to be having a Canada - US rivalry....(and since all but two are sporting Canada pins...I´d say we´re winning....)

I´ll hopefully post more pictures soon....

Take care amigos

Michelle

Truffleitis....

Only 22 more sleeps until Chile....

I hope everyone had a Safe and Happy Holiday season....from the picture on the left, you can see how I spent my holidays. Good thing I was loving every minute of it.... What you don't see in the picture is my wonderful sister Danielle who was responsible for organizing and packing up over 400 dozen truffles....Her "strange" sense of humor is probably what got us through those many late, late nights....And just when Dan thought we were done, I've had quite a few requests for Valentine's Day Truffles....We'll see if blood is thicker then water...or at least chocolate....

Anyways....I have now become addicted to truffle making so unless I can come up with a new obsession, I will be forced to either buy a couple of extra fridges or take to the streets to give out truffles to the homeless....