You can access the original article here: http://www.estrellavalpo.cl today (March 25th) by scrolling down the page– or any other day for an indeterminate amount of time by doing a search for “Hannah Kelley”. I was interviewed on Saturday while sitting at a cafe near my house. At the top it says: The Gringa of the… [Read more…]
March 23, 2008
Fellow Rotary scholar Paul Goldberg held a get together at his residencia on Cerro Placeres (Pleasure Hill). His good friend and proprietor of the residencia, Miguel Angel, is a former chef–which didn’t hurt in preparing food for approx. 20 people. Friends from the university came and invited friends of their own, along with Rotaractors and… [Read more…]
March 22, 2008
Hills The Saturday of Easter Weekend I went wandering around the hills Cerro Alegre and Cerro Concepcion near my apartment with fellow scholar Paul Goldberg. We first went to a very unique cemetery, which is actually visible from the rear windows of my apartment. See more pictures of the cemetery here. Although I live at… [Read more…]
March 17, 2008
While walking around Casa Central (main campus for PUCV) on Monday, I noticed that some fellow students were using white paint to write on enormous strips of black plastic, then hanging them as banners all along the inside of the courtyard. Posters inside of Casa Central I stopped to ask one of the students what… [Read more…]
March 16, 2008
Announcing my home phone number: (011) (56) (32) 221-9305 Saturday was Beach Day. I didn’t bring my digital camera, but I took a lot of pictures with a small plastic 35 mm camera I brought. I am anxious to see what effect the camera gives to the pictures. I went with Matthieu by bus to… [Read more…]
March 16, 2008
I have taken most of my classes by now. I added another class, “Formulation of Latin American Culture” which meets on Thursday nights. The professor is an endearing older gentleman with curly hair and a penchant for “sh” sounds. He described South America and Latin America as a grand painting of Indigenous peoples, Africans, Europeans… [Read more…]
March 11, 2008
These poor guys are mechones, freshman. As a welcome to their new life as university students, upperclassmen dress them in dirty clothes and paint them colors–only to make them go beg for money on the street. Once they have enough money, I think they have to do something else that is just as humiliating! I… [Read more…]
March 9, 2008
Saturday I went with the Rotaracters I had met on Thursday to an activity in Olmué, about 40 minutes north of the Viña/Valparaíso area. We went to a boarding house for special needs children called Hogar Los Sauces. The home receives minimal funding from a government subsidy for youth. We played with the children, danced,… [Read more…]
March 8, 2008
Friday I signed up for my classes, which are as follows: Advanced Spanish Grammar, 4 credits Advanced Written Spanish, 3 credits History of Modern Chile, 4 credits Art and Society in Pre-Hispanic Chile, 3 credits Environmental Law, 2 credits These courses were the result of hours of drilling the “monitores”, students in charge of international… [Read more…]
March 7, 2008
Thursday I had the chance to attend a meeting with my host club, the Rotary Club of Valparaiso. I along with another scholar, Susan Owen, sat with some wonderful gentlemen and a few of the Rotaracters from the Rotaract Club of Valparaiso. On the agenda was a Bingo fund raiser that the club is planning… [Read more…]
March 25, 2008
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