by Eileen | Apr 22, 2010 | Uncategorized
It’s me again. With the language thing.The other night, I was at a friend’s apartment in Ñuñoa, a pretty residential neighborhood with probably the swankiest and most pleasant plaza in all of Santiago with a giant fountain and benches and places where you...
by Eileen | Apr 13, 2010 | Uncategorized
(photo explained below) No es muy Católico (it’s not very Catholic) is what you say in Chile (or what they say, I haven’t quite gotten my brain around this one), when you’re talking about something that’s not quite right. The last time I heard...
by Eileen | Apr 9, 2010 | Uncategorized
Quick quiz:Does the above expression refer toa) a person who paints monkeysb) a person who paints sloppily and with both hands and feetc) a person who insists on being the center of attentiond) a person who likes to paint, and uses monkeys as the subjectC, my friends,...
by Eileen | Apr 7, 2010 | Uncategorized
I could never tire of biking down roads like this one. Tire physically, sure, but tire mentally of having the world so open, so expansive, so cloudy and bluesky and mountains in the distance and fresh air and the hum of the occasional vehicle? Never.I don’t...
by Eileen | Apr 5, 2010 | Uncategorized
To travel in New Zealand for any period of time is to get a lecture on possums and rabbits. Possums and rabbits, I tell you. They are the scourge of the country’s native wildlife, and no kiwi conversation is complete without a serious talking-to on the ills of...
by Eileen | Apr 3, 2010 | Uncategorized
I am not sure what the people at the airport in Lima believe travelers might have secreted on their person (or in their carry on luggage) between the first time they were xrayed and metal-detected and arriving in the airport for their international connecting flight,...
