by Eileen | Jul 8, 2013 | border crossing, travel
In my continued quest to get to know my neighbors, I decided to visit Paraguay. It helped that a friend of mine was going to study Guaraní for a month, and so, as doesn’t often happen, I was going to get to travel with someone, as opposed to going it alone. I...
by Eileen | Jul 4, 2013 | chile, language
Nosotros. You learn it early on in Spanish class, the first person plural, what happens when you add someone to your self. I plus you is we. Right? Not so fast. As you may or may not know, I just got back from Paraguay. So, Paraguay. There are many reasons why...
by Eileen | Jun 26, 2013 | chile, food, food and drink, memoir, santiago
If you spend any time at all in Santiago, chances are that you will spend some time downtown. I think of this as the more “traditional” part of Santiago, where traces of the past are more than that. Many of them have not yet been erased or paved over,...
by Eileen | Jun 10, 2013 | bicycle, chile, feria, food, language, travel
Sometimes you will be walking around in the feria, and you will see bags of pale green something in a bag. it will be double-knotted on top, and flattened into a squared-off brick inside its bag, as though you were going to make sandbags out of it to stem an...
by Eileen | Jun 1, 2013 | Uncategorized
