by Eileen | Dec 26, 2012 | chile, language, travel
¡Fuera! is what you shout at a dog (if you don’t shout ¡Sale!) when you want him to go outside. Fuera (no exclamation points) is also what we say when it turns out you aren’t, or won’t be where you normally are. BTW, this is about fuera, which is...
by Eileen | Dec 20, 2012 | photography, santiago
Here in Santiago, where we plan on celebrating the apocalypse with tacos and chocolate (and tequila for the drinkers), we’d been expecting a very unseasonable rain. Basically, it doesn’t rain from November to April. We occasionally get a heavy rainstorm in...
by Eileen | Dec 4, 2012 | chile
There used to be a bridge over the river in Talca (the Rio Claro), but it got old, and fell into disuse, though you can still find beer bottles and the occasional tombstone (no, I’m not kidding). After a while, a new bridge was built, shiny and with metal...
by Eileen | Nov 28, 2012 | chile, language
One of the things you can imagine about living on an island, or in a small community, is that you’d better watch what you say and do, because if you don’t, someone’s going to tell your momma. Or if not tell your momma, they’ll gossip about it...
by Eileen | Nov 22, 2012 | chile, train, travel
Sorry about the lack of posts, I went to Chile for a few days. What? Don’t I live in Chile? Well, kind of. I mean, I live in the largest city, within 100 miles of more half the population of the country. When I think of Chile, I think of Santiago. But it’s...
