by Eileen | Feb 24, 2017 | chile, haha, language, santiago
When I was living in DC, I worked at a publishing company, writing business-to-business compliance manuals and newsy bits about environmental law. It was a pretty big office, maybe 60-80 people, and there was a core group of folks that I would make coffee-machine...
by Eileen | Sep 20, 2012 | chile, language, santiago
I have been unfair. Often, I make fun of strange English I see here in Chile. There are apostrophes from space, misspellings-a-million, Starbucks name-writing fails, and this gorgeous set of errors contained in one word that still makes one of my (Chilean) friends...
by Eileen | Aug 27, 2012 | art, chile, santiago, travel
For reasons I’ll divulge sometime, but not now, I’ve recently been thinking a lot about places tourists don’t go, but should, in Santiago. Should in the sense that they’d see a part of Santiago that’s not packaged and presented and...
by Eileen | Mar 18, 2012 | chile, haha, santiago
If you give a two year old a camera, she will take this picture of you. Because you are legs and arms and squatting and apparently, you don’t even have a head. The photographer is a towheaded two year old that I walked around with, pointing and oohing and aahing...
