by Eileen | Sep 30, 2008 | Uncategorized
Sometimes when I’m standing on a corner or at the appointed location outside the national symphony at Plaza Italia, waiting, waiting, waiting for my person to show up, I start thinking to myself that if my person doesn’t show up, and that person over there’s person...
by Eileen | Sep 29, 2008 | Uncategorized
aka: the great shoelace dilemma, with a shout-out to La Cumbre in Las Condes.This past (southern) summer I spent a couple of months in and around Patagonia, hitting some great hotspots, including the park at the end of the world (Parque Nacional Tierra del Fuego)...
by Eileen | Sep 23, 2008 | Uncategorized
Bah. This is what a Chilean says when he misspeaks. It’s not an oops, or an ooof, or even a whoa. It’s just bah. Not baaahh, like a sheep, more like you started to say the English word but and it got confused with the sheep sound. A sharper b, a shorter a....
by Eileen | Sep 19, 2008 | Uncategorized
This was the neon sign that greeted us at the entrance of Parque Iñes de Suarez in Providencia (not exactly the cheap seats) at the fonda. The neon sign depicts a man and woman dancing the cueca, which is the national dance. The whole dieciocho holiday is steeped in...
by Eileen | Sep 18, 2008 | Uncategorized
This morning when I clicked on Google.cl, as one is wont to do here in this stringbean of a country, I noticed that the L in google had transformed itself into the Chilean flag. The Chilean flag bears a striking resemblance to the state flag of Texas, but be ye not...
