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A summary of recent news and events and planned events:

We’ve enjoyed two cultural events provided free by different competing municipalities in Santiago- firstly, a live jazz concert on friday night (Poncho Sanchez and band) and then, on Sunday night, Don Quixote, in a park outdoors!

Our sea freight arrived yesterday!

We missed another earthquake only 120 miles away, Richter scale 4.7! 8am. We were awake. But didn’t notice. No comment!

We met a lovely couple, with new baby who have moved here to work with Campus Missions for Christ.

Rachel is working on PhD corrections this week while Doug attends a conference- please pray for her work and for her. The work required for the corrections has taken longer than expected and they are more difficult/complex than anticipated. They are troubling and depressing her because they are dragging on. She longs for it to be finished.

We’re meeting with Chilean friends Michael and Veronica later this week to celebrate him passing his PhD last week! Well done to him! We look forward to trying our local English Bar (yes… its just 300 metres away from our house!).

Doug has done over 3 hours of solo paragliding now. Had two flights last week each lasting an hour! He’s really enjoying practicing and is considering going for a tandem or instructor level licence. He flies again on friday.

Timbo is keeping well. He is glad for the company of Bauer, Doug’s bear, which arrived in the sea freight. Although he is anxious that he’ll be ignored during the unpacking process!

Now that we’ve got our sea freight, we are going to get down to writing to you all! So watch this space… literally… we won’t blog so much for the next few days!

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