Tweet Just a quick note to say Bariloche was awesome, and we leave for Santiago tomorrow. This past week has flown by! We’ve been saying goodbye to everyone. The Alvarez had us over for dinner one last time, and this time we got some pictures. Then yesterday the office had breakfast (a cake and a [...]
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Tweet Wow it’s been a while. Sorry ‘bout that. I’ll try to fill in what happened in chronological order. This may make separate sections rather disjoint, so try to bear with me. —– Last weekend we didn’t end up going with Techo Para Chile, nor did we go to the Barquito. It was La Casona [...]
Tweet It’s Friday and it’s my first full day of work this week. My week has been short since I’ve been sick for most of my time here. You never truly start appreciating the day-to-day things until you lose them, like your health, for example. Being incapacitated and quarantined at home probably is not the [...]
Tweet I just wrote my first Excel macro! In fact, I just taught myself how to create and edit macros. I’m so proud of myself! ^_^ So our Excel database of companies, etc, kept making neighboring cells link to the same page as one containing a link. It made the whole page into a land-mine. [...]
Tweet Hey all. There’s really nothing to report right now. I sat on my bum watching TV at home for the past few days, and now I’m back at work. I’m not completely healed, but I’m feeling better. Mingi sounds like she’s getting sick though. I really hope it’s just a cold and I haven’t [...]
Tweet 10 weeks don’t seem to be enough time to do thorough market research to have accurate data and stastics to validate our business plan. I am currently doing competitor analysis which basically means I’m physically looking up companies in the 3 big cities, Temuco, Puerto Montt, and Osorno, that have anything to do with [...]
Tweet 7-3-06 Mapi, Mingi and I caught a bus Friday night and stayed at Ellenhous (in Puerto Varas) that night. It’s quite the building – originally it was two separate houses, and one of them (I think) put up soldiers for a while? I didn’t quite catch. In any case, there’s an old forge inside [...]
Tweet Pittsburghers, you think you got rain? You ain’t seen nothing yet unless you’ve been Puerto Montt in this time of the year. The rain showed no mercy. It didn’t come down too hard but what rendered my umbrella useless was the notorious wind that teamed up with the rain and bullied my umbrella. After [...]
Tweet I had the odd experience of feeling abnormally tall this weekend. The shower head in the room Mapi, Mingi and I shared in Chiloe this weekend was even with my nose. There were only about 4 or 5 inches between my head and the ceiling. Neither Mapi nor Mingi had any problem with this, [...]
Tweet Work-wise: In Chile, we work directly under Don Eugenio, the Director of Centro Informatico de Universidad Austral, which is essentially this university’s version of Computing Services. Since our earlier meeting with Don Eugenio and an econ professor called Cristian, where we ended up in an incoherent debate best summarized as the “chicken or the [...]
