by Eileen | Dec 19, 2011 | Uncategorized
I know I talk not a small amount of negative smack re: Chile’s campaigns. There’s the campaign that urges men not to be violent with their partners that leverages the word maricón. Despite Chilean assurances to the contrary, I feel the campaign is both...
by Eileen | Jul 20, 2011 | Uncategorized
They didn’t tell me there would be cows in salt ponds. Oh! What I might have missed. On a recent trip to the coastal (and later, mountain) regions of Región de Maule and BíoBío here in Chile, during which we experienced a kind of dubious signage (photo evidence...
by Eileen | May 27, 2011 | Uncategorized
One of the most charades-prone and elaborate hand gesture-filled explanations of my early ESL/EFL teaching life was the difference between fun and funny. Fun, I would explain, is when you have a good time, like going on a roller coaster (roller coaster haters aside)....
