by Eileen | Oct 9, 2008 | Uncategorized
Chile has all the indicators to make it a healthy country. Wide open spaces, good economic growth, excellent access to technology, a strong agricultural market, and good infrastructure. (indicators chosen by me). The people here should be healthy. They should be hale...
by Eileen | Oct 8, 2008 | Uncategorized
Whenever I hear someone shout “Señora Barbara,” I know it’s my turn. It’s my turn to go sit in the box for my hora, which is usually approximately 13 minutes. You may ask yourself, “Why Barbara?” I ask myself the same thing. It’s not a name that I have a great love...
by Eileen | Oct 3, 2008 | Uncategorized
Veintiun milliones, seis ocho dos etc… This is my chant. It’s not the winning lottery number, it’s not my phone number. It’s my RUT. It’s how I’m known in Chile. It’s how I’d be entered in DICOM (for bad credit), which...
by Eileen | Oct 2, 2008 | Uncategorized
I’ve always wanted to write a sweet little sympathetic entry about the fun furry four-legged creatures that populate the street here in Santiago. Dogs are pretty much everywhere. For example, there’s Fred (that’s what I call him) a kind of black...
by Eileen | Sep 30, 2008 | Uncategorized
Sometimes when I’m standing on a corner or at the appointed location outside the national symphony at Plaza Italia, waiting, waiting, waiting for my person to show up, I start thinking to myself that if my person doesn’t show up, and that person over there’s person...
by Eileen | Sep 29, 2008 | Uncategorized
aka: the great shoelace dilemma, with a shout-out to La Cumbre in Las Condes.This past (southern) summer I spent a couple of months in and around Patagonia, hitting some great hotspots, including the park at the end of the world (Parque Nacional Tierra del Fuego)...
