-Every night I sleep in a room 7x9 feet with 5 other girls (1 German, 2 Bolivians, 1 Brazilian, and 1 rocking chick from the Bahamas)
-I am living in a government office building without heat or running water
-I get a 3 minute shower an average of every 3 days (when one of my new neighbors down the street invites me into their home to use their personal shower)
-Wet wipes are my new best friends
-The daily temperatures here average between 40-60 degrees (slightly different than in Bolivia)

-The air is cool and damp and frequently holds the horrid odor or rotting fish that were swept ashore and into the streets by the Tsunami

-The streets are strewn with litter, rubble, mud, old shoes, clothing, everything imaginable

-I eat three meals a day in a Salvation Army Shelter (which actually doubles as the living room of a local family, the family has been gracious to loan their space to feed humanitarian aid volunteers)

-My daily food intake normally consists of 5 rolls, some rice, and a potato dish

-The past few days I have been working with 100 Chilean Marines- they are incredible. They are working 7 days a week, 12 hours a day, to construct houses for the estimated 6,000 people left homeless in this area because of the earthquake and tsunami destruction

-There are shipping containers in the middle of my neighborhood even though it is 1.5 miles from the ocean. The containers were thrust onto land by the tsunami
-I am armed with an incredible pile of medicines and have been distrubting medicine to many in my group
-I am healthy, happy, well, and strong serving under the precious wonderful name of Jesus in the Earthquake- Tsunami zone in Talcahuano, Chile!