by Eileen | Aug 24, 2009 | Uncategorized
Even I, amateur linguist, translator and pun maker extraordinaire can have a joke fall flat. Apropos of nothing, except I was baby wrangling for the sweetest mama and baby pair today, and so I had some time to think when I wasn’t swirling from side to side or...
by Eileen | Aug 19, 2009 | Uncategorized
It all started last night when I came home around midnight, and noticed the lobby suspiciously dark and the elevator out of order. The elevator is frequently out of order, so I dutifully trudged up the ten flights of stairs to my apartment, secretly thanking the gods...
by Eileen | Aug 17, 2009 | Uncategorized
Caution: You may spit out whatever you are eating somewhere around photo four. You have been warned. Four countries and seventeen hours later, I arrived to Santiago’s spiffy airport and followed the usual hamster wheel to International Police, through the duty...
by Eileen | Aug 15, 2009 | Uncategorized
When people ask me what languages I speak, I try to be fair, and say, just two, English and Spanish. But I can’t help sometimes throwing in that I also speak Chilean. Chilean bears a striking resemblance to Spanish, but there is a point of departure after which...
by Eileen | Aug 12, 2009 | Uncategorized
In which I report the following things which I have learned since last we spoke:Bathroom scales routinely underweigh luggage, by as much as six pounds according to the Taca check-in guy, who also assured me I would really like the airline (and if not, then what? Jump...
