by Eileen | Apr 8, 2009 | Uncategorized
In a recent guest blog post over at Travelojos in which I talk about the contrast between formal and informal morality in Chile, I mentioned that there are two economies here, the formal and informal. The formal economy is just what you’d expect. People busting...
by Eileen | Apr 7, 2009 | Uncategorized
About two years after I moved to Chile, a couple of friends and I set to subtitling a movie short that a friend was submitting to an international film festival. We were doing it as a favor, and for fun. The footage involved several hiphoperos (hip hop artists)...
by Eileen | Apr 6, 2009 | Uncategorized
It drives me batty when people imitate what they percieve to be an American accent in Spanish. If they did it well, or reliably, or if they actually sounded like what Americans sound like when they speak Spanish, or if I myself had a strong accent in Spanish, perhaps...
by Eileen | Apr 1, 2009 | Uncategorized
A while ago (maybe a year or so), a friend of mine and I were talking about how much she hates going to the grocery store. Part of this is just the way she’s wired, part of it is that she goes seldom, and by car, thereby having to fight traffic, parking and...
by Eileen | Mar 25, 2009 | Uncategorized
My mother says that when I was a child she used to have to go through my pockets before doing the laundry to find the rocks I’d secreted there and forgotten about. It doesn’t surprise me, kids do all kinds of silly things and on our recent family vacation...
