Day 623 – South America – Chile [Hualqui to Concepcion]

04/01/22

38km

  From Hualqui (Chile) to Concepcion (Chile)

South America

Sunny run towards the Pacific coast – and a massive THANK YOU! to the students of Vesoul for their amazing efforts in support of Lootie Run and Women for Women…

Back to the Pacific Coast

Today the sun was out again. James drove me to my re-start point and the run started with the 400m ascent over the hill that leads back to the coast on the Pacific side. It went well, the weather was just perfect and I was looking forward to seeing the ocean again. As I reached the top of the hill and started the way down, it suddenly appeared before my eyes. Fabulous! We are going to try and stay near the coastline all the way north to Valparaiso.

Visio with the Belin Lycee Students

Today I want to dedicate the blog post to the students of the Belin Lycee in Vesoul. Their teacher heard about the journey last year, when I ran through Vesoul in France (Blog # 309 & 310). Local journalist Etienne Colin wrote a very nice article in the “Presse de Vesoul” and it caught Delphine’s eye, the English teacher. Early December we had a 1 hour visio-conference with the students, all in English, where they all asked questions in turn. I enjoyed it a lot, especially seeing how they were all well versed about the journey and their questions were very relevant and interesting. They showed a lot of interest in the NGO I am running for, Women for Women International (WFWI).

The Xmas cake sale event

After the visio, they organised a 1-week event at the school, baking and selling christmas cakes to the benefit of WFWI. They managed to collect over 500 Euro! I am really thrilled. This is such a generous contribution. In addition to this, they also worked on awareness of women’s condition. They shared the “It’s not ok” hashtag from WFWI and for a week, every student presented a situation of something that “is not ok” towards a girl or a woman. These students are teenagers and I think it is brilliant that they work on it and are aware of the inequalities that still persist. Change goes through them, to the education of both girls and boys.

So: I am sending them a massive thank you, kudos and I want them to know it put a spring in my footsteps! Thank you to all the students of the Belin Lycee who took part and initiated this, under the guidance of Delphine, their English teacher. I hope we get to meet again by Visio before the year ends!

Enjoy the video of today’s run: https://www.relive.cc/view/v1Ow3r9mmXO

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Here is the map of today’s run: