(Allie typing about her experience in general up to this point......)

Yo no sé. Se me olvidó. Confundida.

(I don´t know. I forgot. Confused.)

This is the Orthodox Church we are going to every Sunday. Today we stayed for a community lunch. There is a nice sized group of people our age which has been nice. Everyone has been very hospitable.

The first Sunday we met a couple Carlos and Paulina who are expecting in December. They just started writing Father (now Bishop) Joshua Beecham about the EOC. For those of you who dont know anything about the EOC or of Father Joshua Beecham - Allie and I were part of the EOC (Evangelical Orthodox Church) for most of our lives and converted about 6 years ago to the canonical Orthodox Church. We´ve known Fr. Joshua all of our lives. What a coincidence that we meet a couple in Chile who just started corresponding with a dear friend of ours in Indianopolis!

Here is Allie, Mauricio and Miguel planting peanuts. Notice the mountain (what they call a hill behind them). We are surrounded by hills-mountains like this. When Miguel started guiding the horse to cover the planted peanuts, the horse let out a big fart - it was hilarious!!

Miguel (on the right) invited Allie and I to have `Cazuela' a Chilean soup at their house. Miguel and his family have lived on the farm where Allie and I are working for the past 22 years. They eat outside on this patio when it´s cold, raining, hot, etc. The people in the pictures are his two sons, mother and wife. (Allie typing now) right before this picture was taken Anna was getting up to set up the camera and stepped on the 14-year old dog!!!! The whole family burst into laughter. I think that was the first time I really laughed hard becuase it was the only humor I could understand. Poor dog!

Yummy!

For some reason the pictures arent downloading. But, I wanted to post a picture of some oranges that I just picked from a tree outside the kitchen window and then a picture of the juice we made with the oranges. About 90 percent of what we have been eating is this fresh.

Today while we were working next to Miguels house (Andreas righ hand guy who has been farming since he was 9 years old) cutting onions his wife and mother made us some coffee. So, we took a break and had some coffee with them. Allie did a good job with her Spanish. She asked the grandmother ¨¿Cuántos hijos tiene usted?¨ She replied ¨Tengo 10 hijos.¨ Ay, ay, ay. ¡Muchos!

Allie and I made it safely to Chile. However, we experienced some rough turbulance. It was so bad that we are still finding little pieces of rice stuck in our clothes from the drinks and food flying everywhere. I almost pooped my pants and Allie was the good calm sister even though she admitted later that she was indeed pretty darn scared for her life.

We are headed to a wonderful orthodox church tomorrow. We saw their icon class and a lot of people attend. After church we plan to go to our first farm about 2 hours from the capital. We are staying in a little hotel-hostal where the people are soo nice and speak only Spanish. :) I am trying to speak only Spanish to Allie to her surprise and shes already understanding so much Spanish. However, that does come with frustration and a headache. Lots more to say, but we have to get off the internet. Lots of love from Chile and missing home!