by Eileen | Sep 23, 2011 | Uncategorized
Today’s great adventure in the public health system ended well for me. I did not limp in on a bandaged leg all the way from the street, nor did I have to have the nurse bribe me with a little set of pre-reading books packaged in a plastic bag in order for me to...
by Eileen | Sep 20, 2011 | Uncategorized
As you may guess from the title of this blog post, yesterday’s second foray into the big city on roller blades did not go exactly as planned. Which is how I find myself the proud owner of a multiply-punctured and torn pair of pants, a well-defined...
by Eileen | Sep 2, 2011 | Uncategorized
Yesterday I was on a mission. I had a meeting in the morning, followed by a purchasing spree at one of my favorite “Chinese import stores” whose owners, it turns out, are Vietnamese, and this mainly to buy a spicy chili paste I’d had at a...
by Eileen | Jul 5, 2011 | Uncategorized
No sabe para donde va la micro, said the short guy to the taller one. I know this because I was sitting in my living room, listening to their conversation, and they were standing on my balcony. I don’t know these guys, yet I know more about them than I ever...
by Eileen | Jun 30, 2011 | Uncategorized
I saw a kid tenderly wipe lemon juice across another kid’s eyelashes today. That’s crazy, all of it. Kids (teenage boys) being tender to each other, that’s just Chile (when they’re not beating the crap out of each other or hurling homophobic...
