by Eileen | Apr 26, 2009 | Uncategorized
I suffer from an inescapable desire to compare this to that. Everywhere I go, I put under the subjective lens that it’s taken me all these years to painstakingly construct and send into orbit, like some kind of personal Hubble Telescope, but without blowing the...
by Eileen | Apr 13, 2009 | Uncategorized
Chileans already know where this is going, mas o menos (roughly). Yesterday I accompanied two intrepid gringos (actually, whose idea it was go out for a hike) up to Parque Mahuida in the comuna of La Reina for some steep walking up, and some steep walking down. See,...
by Eileen | Apr 10, 2009 | Uncategorized
Move to another country and never again be at a loss for a conversation starter. Well, you might be, but the people you meet will not! And here’s a list of the top seven questions you’ll be asked as an expat living in Chile (as of 2009, subject to change)....
by Eileen | Apr 8, 2009 | Uncategorized
In a recent guest blog post over at Travelojos in which I talk about the contrast between formal and informal morality in Chile, I mentioned that there are two economies here, the formal and informal. The formal economy is just what you’d expect. People busting...
by Eileen | Apr 7, 2009 | Uncategorized
About two years after I moved to Chile, a couple of friends and I set to subtitling a movie short that a friend was submitting to an international film festival. We were doing it as a favor, and for fun. The footage involved several hiphoperos (hip hop artists)...
by Eileen | Apr 6, 2009 | Uncategorized
It drives me batty when people imitate what they percieve to be an American accent in Spanish. If they did it well, or reliably, or if they actually sounded like what Americans sound like when they speak Spanish, or if I myself had a strong accent in Spanish, perhaps...
