I´m on a BIKE (and..)!

Hello all!
I am slightly tired because I got a bike yesterday (!) and just got back from an awesome ride up the coast (no big deal...). Ah, and I feeeel good. This is being written at the end of a really nice week. The weather has been so lovely (although today a little chilly with the wind), and I have just felt really good. I re-arranged my room so that my bed faces the Ocean. It is hard to have a bad day when you wake up with your feet at the Ocean and waves... I have been getting SO much more comfortable with the language (this has been happining for a while now), and no longer have to "turn on my Spanish brain". It just comes more naturally now, and I´m soooooo glad :). Also, I met up with my friend Connor (he is a fellow CU-er) and we have started planning a trip to Buenos Aires in November! I am SOOOO excited, and can´t wait to have my first out of the Country (Chile) experience. I have heard that the Spanish is very different there (duh) and am excited to be able to differenciate between different dialects now that I´m actually understanding this one!
I have met so many new people recently! It is amazing how things just happen so naturally. I had heard that the first few weeks or months are a little strange to ajust to, and then you reach sort of a climax with the language and everything, and that is totally where I am right now. Everything just has this really good rythm that I´m following and enjoying a lot. The Chilean people are just so nice and fun and welcoming. They are always so willing to share everything with everyone, and its really nice. Ha, last night we were at this bar, and I arrived a little late (I had met some friends on my way and chatted with them for a bit) to meet up with Amelie and her friend who is ALSO named Amelie AND, they were sitting with these two people (Chilean and Peruvian) who I assumed were friends of theirs. Turns out that they were total strangers that just offered to let them sit at their table. (side story- they were supposidly cousins, but were MAKING OUT a lot, like allllll night! Ha, que raro....)
But, yes... Chile is just great. I feel like my whole experience down here is like the life of a flower. Planted, beginning to grow, and continuing to grow and spread itself furthur. Ah, life...And I do miss everyone- my family, friends, Boulder and such, but its hard to be upset when I can just walk to the Ocean- or even just knowing that I am here and BEING here, its really tranquilo. And my host family is SO awesome. I really feel like I am a part of the family. Like we are of the same blood- and we are, in a sence... We All are. Yea, good time to just think. About everything, about nothing. My thoughts are constantly fluid, and mostly good. And my bike will set me free! No more paying for the Micro! :) Que buennnooo.
Anyway, thats where I´m at right now, and I hope you are all enjoying fall and life ingeneral. Remember "la vida es corta- disfrutala!" Life is short, enjoy it!
Chau! :)