by Eileen | Jan 9, 2010 | Uncategorized
If you are not, at this very second eating a hearty earthenware bowl full of the homey creamy Chilean potage, porotos granados, well then, I weep for you. Unless you are drinking a glass (yes, a glass, they’re bigger) of iced coffee with cold-frothed milk, in...
by Eileen | Jan 4, 2010 | Uncategorized
A friend of mine, a podcaster, recently asked me to record a piece for her. I was alternately flattered and freaked out, overly confident and very nervous. I still haven’t done it, so I guess now I’m just procrastinating a bit. The topic of the podcast is...
by Eileen | Dec 28, 2009 | Uncategorized
Oh my God! is what someone shouted to me when I was leaping over a calf-high pile of discarded lettuce leaves today at the Vega. Except due to the Chilean vowel range, it sounded more like oh my Gott! in some kind of approximation of German. This is a term most...
by Eileen | Dec 22, 2009 | Uncategorized
The first several weeks I spent in Chile were an exercise in figuring out just what was going on. It wasn’t so much the language as the culture, in that I couldn’t get why I had to go to a notary to rent an apartment (all contracts are legalized here,...
by Eileen | Dec 12, 2009 | Uncategorized
The best part of the overnight bikeride to the coast is seeing the red blinkie-lights stretching into the black night start to disappear. It means you’re reaching the crest of the hill, the end of the cuesta, the up, the incline. Soon your breath will still,...
by Eileen | Dec 9, 2009 | Uncategorized
Hey kids, put your grammar hats on, because it’s time to talk about verb endings in Chilean Spanish (and friends beseeching male friends to not have that baby right then and there, but that comes at the end, skip ahead if you have a short attention span).Sure,...
