by Eileen | Jun 11, 2008 | Uncategorized
I’ve spoken before about Chile’s wild contrasts, old and new. There’s this overarching feeling of retroness to alot of my life here, in spite of how modern Santiago is. Not necessarily retro in my own life, but perhaps harkening back to my...
by Eileen | Jun 6, 2008 | Uncategorized
Santiago is a modern city. Six million inhabitants, more malls than you can shake a stick at, a debatably good public transportation system, a beautiful and gleaming metro. It’s heavily wi-fied, everyone has electricity and potable water, things generally work...
by Eileen | Jun 4, 2008 | Uncategorized
Years ago, just having barely moved to Chile, I was enjoying what was to be the first of many rainstorms. It had rained in the morning, the mountains were out, and I, along with every other santiaguino, old and new, was craning my neck to the east to stunning views....
by Eileen | Jun 1, 2008 | Uncategorized
a man and his zapallo Cargado originalmente por bearshapedsphereWhen you go to buy squash in Chile, most of the time you will buy squash. Not a squash, mind you, just some. A chunk, or corte, if you will. People eat quite a bit of it, usually in cazuela, Chile’s...
by Eileen | May 23, 2008 | Uncategorized
If you walk the streets in Brazil for long enough, surely you will get hungry. And eventually you might get so hungry that it will occur to you that you should eat vast quantities, in what in Argentina is known as a tenedor libre (lit: free fork) and what we call in...
by Eileen | May 17, 2008 | Uncategorized
torta chilena? Cargado originalmente por bearshapedsphereBefore I moved to Chile, I read the classified ads for apartments because I wanted to know what I was getting myself into, financially, and spacewise and any other way I could before transplanting myself. One...
