by Eileen | May 4, 2009 | Uncategorized
Today I’m going to tell a story that has nothing to do with Uruguay. It’s not that I won’t ever talk about Uruguay, it’s just that I haven’t downloaded the pictures yet and as a friend yesterday why I don’t upload pictures (oy!...
by Eileen | Apr 30, 2009 | Uncategorized
Last night the temperature dropped and the wind was so blowy and the trees whispered furiously as their leaves rustled against one another in the giant arch that they formed above the streets, that I knew it was fall. What’s funny about this fall is that...
by Eileen | Apr 26, 2009 | Uncategorized
I suffer from an inescapable desire to compare this to that. Everywhere I go, I put under the subjective lens that it’s taken me all these years to painstakingly construct and send into orbit, like some kind of personal Hubble Telescope, but without blowing the...
by Eileen | Apr 13, 2009 | Uncategorized
Chileans already know where this is going, mas o menos (roughly). Yesterday I accompanied two intrepid gringos (actually, whose idea it was go out for a hike) up to Parque Mahuida in the comuna of La Reina for some steep walking up, and some steep walking down. See,...
by Eileen | Apr 10, 2009 | Uncategorized
Move to another country and never again be at a loss for a conversation starter. Well, you might be, but the people you meet will not! And here’s a list of the top seven questions you’ll be asked as an expat living in Chile (as of 2009, subject to change)....
