i´m in valparaiso with evelyn, ola, and carolina. it´s amazing, i love this city. it makes me love being in chile again. aside from being the most beautiful there are also probably 2 million young people here for new years and you don´t even have to go out to bars, everyone just sits in the streets on the cerros singing and smoking cigarrettes and selling soy burgers and six packs until morning. there are so many people that all of the stores are out of alcohol. it´s weird not to have new years at home with friends but i think this one is going to be exceptional anyway with an hour of fireworks over the harbor that we watch from the top of a hill with millions of other people. so, it´s good. and after this i go to the airport at 4am on tuesday and meet beth and begin lots of new things. i´m going to be pretty m.i.a. for the next two months, so sorry if i don´t answer e'mails or update this at all. in case you are curious the farm is in vilcabamba which is near lagos in the very south of ecuador almost on the border with peru. ok. that´s all.