Jimmy and I had our second meeting regarding development of the magazine. We went into some more details about how to gain readership & advertising revenues. I met his friend, Manuel, who is the director of marketing. We postulated some ideas before laying out concrete next steps on my end. I am charged with development of the business plan, and with Jimmy’s help will hopefully be able to put together a document that highlights the strengths of the magazine while detailing the financial outlook and costs to be incurred. Hopefully, this project in addition to the work already done on Patagon Journal will provide incentive to financiers to give money and business to buy advertising space. If nothing less it will be a great learning experience.
After the meeting I met with Lily to schedule an additional English lesson with her friend Felipe. We met him at the birthday asado a couple of days ago when he approached us for English lessons. Our English tutoring business seems to be growing…hopefully we can get the discussion group concept off the ground.

Later we made our way into el centro to book our flights for Torres del Paine. Our team for the trip had grown to 4 with the additions of my brother and our friend Pearl from Harvard. Pearl had been working in hospitals in Santiago for the past couple of months and is coming down to live with us for a couple of weeks to gain some medical experience in a less urban setting. We are very excited for her arrival and couldn’t be happier that she will be joining us in Torres del Paine.
After a quick empanada dinner I made my way to the front desk in our apartment building to start my second lesson with Jaime. The lesson went well, but I feel like we are spending too much time on pronounciation than on practicing the vocab & verbs. It will be something I can monitor over the next couple of weeks, but I think it’s important to stress proper pronunciation in the beginning.
During our lesson, Lily was making a panqueque cake with layers of manjar between the panqueques. It was partly an experiement, but turned into an excellent congratulations gift for her co-worker Nati who just found out she is pregnant with her fourth child. People down here are always preganant and have so many babies….it’s incredible. With the extra panqueques Lily brought apples with manjar rolled up in the panqueque as a snack for me and Jaime. What a treat! Lily is turning into quite an accomplished chef in the kitchen.
Chile Trivia: Puerto Williams is the southern most city in the world.
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