From: Santiago
To: Magdeburg

Last week i returned to Magdeburg from Santiago de Chile where i have spent six months to do an internship at the Web Research Center of the Universidad de Chile and also to improve my Spanish. While almost everybody told me that Chile wouldn’t necessarily be considered the best place to learn proper Spanish i was delighted by the patience i was granted with my poor pronounciation – still don’t get the r’s right – as well as my limited comprehension. I have made quite a few very good friends among them: Carolina, mosaic artist and cyclist comrade, José Ricardo, intellectual and tandem friend, Carla and Daniel, actor couple and flatmates, Claudio, computer graphics pro and temporary office peer, Javier, information architect and supervisor. Furthermore i had the chance to travel in Chile up north with the Ente and to the south with my brother and his girlfriend. Thanks to anybody who has helped making it a very cool half-year – including my family and girlfriend who have always supported me in that endeavor.