by Eileen | Jan 13, 2010 | Uncategorized
Sometimes you will invite people over to dinner, and during the course of the meal, you will unroll a giant, unweildy map you have on the country, and this will happen.And then, when you’re least expecting it, someone will call you on the phone, and say, hey,...
by Eileen | Jan 9, 2010 | Uncategorized
If you are not, at this very second eating a hearty earthenware bowl full of the homey creamy Chilean potage, porotos granados, well then, I weep for you. Unless you are drinking a glass (yes, a glass, they’re bigger) of iced coffee with cold-frothed milk, in...
by Eileen | Jan 4, 2010 | Uncategorized
A friend of mine, a podcaster, recently asked me to record a piece for her. I was alternately flattered and freaked out, overly confident and very nervous. I still haven’t done it, so I guess now I’m just procrastinating a bit. The topic of the podcast is...
by Eileen | Dec 28, 2009 | Uncategorized
Oh my God! is what someone shouted to me when I was leaping over a calf-high pile of discarded lettuce leaves today at the Vega. Except due to the Chilean vowel range, it sounded more like oh my Gott! in some kind of approximation of German. This is a term most...
by Eileen | Dec 22, 2009 | Uncategorized
The first several weeks I spent in Chile were an exercise in figuring out just what was going on. It wasn’t so much the language as the culture, in that I couldn’t get why I had to go to a notary to rent an apartment (all contracts are legalized here,...
