And the fat lady sang...but it was in español so I didn´t get it...

Well that Okay there was no fat lady, just a lovely Chilean woman who sang to us with the students some classic Chilean songs (see photo). And I also taught some students to sing "You Are My Sunshine" for the end of the program in front of the whole group of parents. My mom would have been proud...the rest of the United States would have said "why are they singing about Jews (you) and what is Essensheen (sunshine)"...oh prounouncing english...so comico! The kids have been great and we had the final ceremony today to show everything they learned and it was so great. We have great pictures and a bunch of little kids are probably going to be emailing me in español even though they promised to do it in english...we´ll see. But it was a great day and now I have to quickly post before we leave. Okay one more picture of me with the principal of our school (Maru on the left) and mi mamá.

We are hopefully leaving tonight on a bus for Santiago that is paid for by the Education Department who brought us here, but like going to San Pedro, we´re not sure if its going to happen on Gringo time or Chilean Time. When we get to Santiago, I think we are either going to take a 1-2 hour bus ride to Valparaiso (one of the best tourist beaches in Chile I guess) or into wine country for a day or two. It will pretty much be a turn around from the bus station, but we are ready to celebrate the end of our trip and just relax without having to over eat.

On that note of overeating, I would also like to clear up the record on eating. Any perceived ungratefulness is merely the presence of the actual gratefulness, and I was so blessed to be in a place where I was taken care of and worried about even though we generally couldn´t understand the spoken expression of her care. She quickly discovered that we responded to her kindness of giving, and she ran with it. Sharing with us her house, her city, her food, and her family (who we met the last of her sisters last night at about 11:30 at night leaving the house on a whim so that we could squeeze the last little bit in!). Speaking of squeezing in...I think we are headed to the family´s favorite beach spot after school, and then sometime we will be packing to leave, but I guess we have time for one more family moment at the beach. We are so blessed.

I hope this is sufficient for not seeing me for a month, and be sure to enjoy Doss´ linked "Juan blog" from yesterday, and the Chilean Moment of the Day (the other CMD). Look for more posts in the next few days, but we´re not sure when we´ll have internet again. Stay warm in the blizzard (we´ve even heard about all your snow down here in the other hemisphere!)