by Eileen | Oct 28, 2013 | chile, haha, spanish
One day, you may be asked to play Cranium in a language/culture that is not your own. You should heed this tale, and consider yourself mas que advertido (strongly warned). So one day, I was at a party at a friend-of-a-friend’s house. The host is a hilarious,...
by Eileen | Apr 3, 2013 | chile, haha, language
You may recall that not that long ago, I went to Suriname. I was thinking about this today because I really want to go to French Guiana. If you know your geography, that’s not a free-association, so much as it is a geographic connection. But despite the capital...
by Eileen | Jan 12, 2013 | bicycle, food and drink, haha, travel
There’s a funny story about a day and all of the various ways it did not go right. Worry not, this post ends well. A few days ago, I had to schlep bags hither and yon from the satellite hostel house I was staying at in Managua. I had a cold, but despite...
by Eileen | Jun 28, 2012 | haha, travel
Before I start this post, you should know that not only am I a terrible navigator (rendering me nearly useless as a copilot, though I will keep you supplied with snacks), I am also not a particularly good artist. There’s a funny aside here about how when someone...
by Eileen | Jun 21, 2012 | art, chile, food, haha
Illustration: Manuela Montero, used with permission. It is impossible not to notice many differences between there and here. In my case, there is the United States, and here is Chile. More specifically, I’m going to compare San Francisco and Santiago, and our...
by Eileen | May 28, 2012 | bicycle, chile, haha
Some time, ago, I’m guessing about five years, they redid the “bandejón central” (kind of like a long traffic island) that goes down the length of the Alameda, or the main street in Santiago from about the Moneda Palace down to Pajaritos, a distance...
