Made contact with the Bahaí community and even found some creatures of a similar size to Indiara Hero.
On the 25th July we set off 40 mins by bus south of the centre of Santiago to a organic farm near the town of Talagante. The family running the farm have two kids, Paco, aged 10, and Manuela, aged 5.... so Hero is happy!
Delia specialises in sorting and packing produce called 'porotos negros'!
Daniel specialises in weeding the carrot field with the other ´trabajadores´.
The farm is incredibly self sufficient. Here we are making gnocci. Food is vegan and very good!
Hero helping with the bi-weekly ´cosecha´ or harvest. She is picking edible Calendula flowers to put in the expensive organic salads to take up to Santiago.
Of course, most of the time is spent amusing herself.
After a week we came up to Santiago on the 1st of August to take part in the reflection meeting for the Bahaís in the Santiago cluster. The property where the event was held has these views of the mountains.
One of the local friends, who is also a well known musician and producer, invited us to stay with his family. The next day they took us up to look for snow!
Javier Duhart.
This was Hero´s first experience of snow.
With Sophia and Sol using car foot mats as sleds!
So after two weeks here, we can say that all is well..! We are very cold but happy and learning much, especially spanish (though Chile spanish is pretty hard to follow as it is spoken quickly with the ends of words missed and with lots of slang..!). Over to Delia for more musings soon!
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