by Eileen | Jul 2, 2008 | Uncategorized
Grocery prices here in Chile, like everywhere else, are going up, up, up. I mostly buy food from the fresh market, but the things I routinely buy at my local grocery store (the Santa Isabel on Huerfanos, though there are three within a six block radius, all of them...
by Eileen | Jun 30, 2008 | Uncategorized
Since I often travel alone and am seldom sans camera, I have learned to take pictures of myself. I’ve mastered the self-shot with arm extended, have triumphed over precipitious camera-balancings and am even the proud owner of not one, but three tripods. (two...
by Eileen | Jun 27, 2008 | Uncategorized
When I had been in Chile barely a month in May, 2004, the students were out in full force, protesting the lack of availability of student bus passes, which meant that the bus drivers were not allowing them on the bus for a reduced fare, leaving students no choice but...
by Eileen | Jun 26, 2008 | Uncategorized
So one day, not long after I moved into this building, I got a note, telling me I had something at the post office, and that I should come get it. Visions of sugarplums or at least a care package danced in my head, and off I went. Not to the post office, per se, but...
by Eileen | Jun 25, 2008 | Uncategorized
Every now and then I run around waxing ecstatic about a product or an object that has somehow improved my life. Most of my consumer tendencies run towards photography, communication or outdoorsy whatnot. Today I’m putting Smartwool under the microscope.Smartwool...
