by Eileen | Mar 11, 2009 | Uncategorized
The other night I was sitting outside one of my local cafés, one that used to have slices of cake and such for a little over a dollar, but the prices of which have recently gone up to the scandalous price of nearly $1.50 (900 pesos!), enjoying the cool evening breeze...
by Eileen | Mar 9, 2009 | Uncategorized
Yesterday was International Women’s Day, here there and everywhere. If you’re like me, and live in the United States, you have only recently become aware of this celebratory event. I have a vague recollection of hearing about it in 1996ish, when the Dalai...
by Eileen | Mar 2, 2009 | Uncategorized
Chile in general is pretty straighforward. You’re not going to arrive and notice that everything is exactly upside down and opposite from how your expected. This, in fact, leads to something I like to call cultural seasickness. Everything is just a few degrees...
by Eileen | Feb 27, 2009 | Uncategorized
Every city has its own walking rhythm, it’s own choreographed set of steps that let you get from point A to point B without obstructing traffic, or getting mashed by your fellow pedestrians.In Copenhagen, as a friend and I strolled down the Strøget, or pedestrian...
by Eileen | Feb 25, 2009 | Uncategorized
“More news from Santiago” they clamor. Less navel gazing! More nuts-and-bolts. This is what I like to pretend is happening, and I run the show here, so here goes.The other day I went to take out the trash, to the tiny room in the hallway where we all...
by Eileen | Feb 24, 2009 | Uncategorized
I’ve been asked not a few times how I find myself in Latin America, how I find myself in Chile, how it all started, this interest in a part of the world to which I have no real claim other than that I’ve adopted it.I was twenty-one years old, with multiple...
