Lunes (monday) mi primer día en el Norte

Today we started our trip to the north, which took me all through the 3ª región, from the desert to the coast and from the far north of the región to the far south. Today we went from coquimbo (where i live) to vallenar, stopping for a few hours, and después passing through Copiapó, but not stopping until we ended up in Caldera, on the coast again, where we spent the night at a residencial where my host dad knows the owner.

A= Coquimbo

B= Vallenar

C= Copiapó

D= Caldera

Martes (tuesday) en el Norte

Today we went from Caldera up north to Diego de Almagro, and on the way back we stopped in Chañaral, sorry about the lack of and the poor quality of today's fotos, my camera was in macro mode in the morning, and after i figured out it was in macro mode, it started running out of bateries. Diego de Almagro is a little mining town, of about 1500 people, which I fell in love with, its nice and quiet. Chañaral used to be a big port, but for the last 20 years or so, ships have been stopping in other, bigger, easier to access ports, and Chañaral has fallen into disarray since then, although i dont have fotos, Chañaral is full of old buildings that havent been kept up very well, which are interesting, but sad, because you can see that they were beautiful at one time.

A= Chañaral

B= Caldera

c= Diego de Almagro

Miércoles (wednesday) en el Norte

Today we got up nice and early, and went to Copiapó, the biggest city in the 3ª región where I spent all day exploring and taking pictures. We stayed the 2 nights in Copiapó at the house of a friend of my host dad's, she was pretty cool xD

A= Caldera

B= Copiapó

Jueves (thursday) en el Norte

Today we stayed in copiapó most of the day, but after lunch we made a side trip to Tierra Amarilla and Los Loros, little farming towns to the south, down the valley made by the Copiapó river. That night, we went to the house of a friend of my host dad's, and had a great party, with chinese take out, and kareoke (which was horrible, but fun)we got back to the house where we were staying around 4 in the morning.

B= Tierra Amarilla

C= Los Loros

D= Copiapó

Viernes (friday) en el Norte

Today we got up (a little late after last night's party) and hit the road, stopping again in vallenar for a little while, and eating lunch in the same place as lunes. After, we went to the town of Huasco, about an hour away, on the coast, which didnt have too much, but i met some cool people there. After Huasco, we started back on the way home, and arrived home around 22:30.

A= Copiapó

C= Huasco

D= Vallenar

E= Coquimbo

new pics (parties)

been a while xD

wow, its ben a while since i last put something up... I'm doing great, I've been on summer break since late december, and will be till early march. I'm having a great time here, we opened up the hardware store the other day, and it's going well, people keep telling us that we needed one in my barrio. the fotos i put up recently are from 2 parties i had ( a bbq and a b day party) last night and the night before, and there are a few fotos from the orientation in december (with me and some friends up on stage, and playing psychic) as always, theres alot to tell but i have no clue what to wright, send me a comment, and i'm sure ill think of more.

--dave

some pics from las compañias, sindempart, and the new floor i helped put in in the backyard..