by Eileen | Oct 28, 2008 | Uncategorized
Something that I’ve been waiting for for a long, long time finally happened today. As I was walking down the street in downtown Santiago, one of those flyer-people approached me and pressed a small piece of paper into my hand.I’m not a big fan of the...
by Eileen | Oct 27, 2008 | Uncategorized
Spring in Santiago is heralded by the arrival of fruit. Real fruit. Fruit that stains your hands and makes you jump up and down and think about juice and borgoña (wine plus fruit combo). Trade in apples and watery pears, bananas imported from Ecuador, tangerines and...
by Eileen | Oct 22, 2008 | Uncategorized
The other day I was talking to my sister, and she pulled out an Eileenism. I’ve been known to contaige (sorry, I also neologize frequently) people around me with expressions. This one is “something shiny.” You use it to refer to why you have lost your train of...
by Eileen | Oct 20, 2008 | Uncategorized
The carnet, that tiny yellow plastic card with your picture on the front and a copihue (national flower of chile) in relief strung across the card like a choker, is essential to your life. Well really, most of the time you only need your national ID number (RUT), but...
by Eileen | Oct 16, 2008 | Uncategorized
To be fair, the competition here is kitty vs. vaca. What I’m talking about is what you call it when you put a bunch of money into the communal pot, to be used equitably for whatever is in store.In the states, we call it putting money in the kitty. I think I even...
by Eileen | Oct 10, 2008 | Uncategorized
Yesterday in my mock yoga (is that moga?) class, the profe didn’t finish the balance portion, because we ran out of music. Everyone started joking around with him (except me, executing a perfect (to my mind) left-footed aeroplano so I wouldn’t feel all...
