We would like to introduce... Some of our Chilean Friends
The people in Chile are very warm and friendly. We have already made some good friends.	Mónica, our Spanish tutor, has become a dear friend. She and her family are our extended family in Chile. María-José, her daughter, and Gustavo, her husband, are at the right.
Evelyn is a warm and caring person who took me under her wing right from the start. She invited us to her daughter's wedding the first night we met. She and her husband sponsored us for membership in the Prince of Wales Country Club. She encourages me to speak Spanish with her, even though her English is very good, so I will get practice	Find Alejandro, her son, on our skiing, holidays and at home pages.
	I met Edith at the Menorca Apart Hotel when we first came to Chile to live. Although she speaks very little English, she has great patience and expression. We have gotten together for shopping and just to talk. She even had her niece, who works in a bank and speaks some English, call to offer her help if I needed anything.

Felipe is our favorite waiter at our favorite restaurant, DaDino's. He has waited on us from the beginning. He is delighted at the progress that we have been making in Spanish. He is very good at explaining things to us, even with very limited English. His smiling face is a delight.

Orlando and Isabella own the apartment where we are living. They are becoming good friends and have graciously invited us to spend time with them at their beautiful 200 year old country house. Isabella is a fine cook and baker and got started in the food business when they were in the US where they spent 3 years while Orlando studied at MIT. Orlando is a city planner who is starting a new venture with a partner in 2000. The company which Isabella started and runs, supplies delicious baked goods to most of the area grocery stores, including the individually wrapped brownies that I had been buying from the the first week we were here.

María Elena and Franz are delightful, energetic, warm and trilingual. When Artie met Franz, a customer of Oxy's chlorine, he invited us to come and see their farm. What a delightful experience it has been to get to know these people and their family. From them we have learned a lot about the cultivation of fruits and nuts in Chile. Here they are standing in one of their vinyards. You can also see some scenes of their farm and some of the sculptures done by Franz's father.

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									December 17, 1999