At the end of May I went to Santiago with two other Rotary Ambassadorial Scholars to visit a Rotary Group Study Exchange (GSE) team. True to my informative spirit, I will provide some useful information about GSE teams taken from rotary.org: What is Group Study Exchange (GSE)? The Group Study Exchange program is a unique… [Read more…]
May 18, 2008
–The official wake-Hannah-up-on-days-she-gets-to-sleep-in-street. Perhaps it is in retaliation to the student protests, maybe they felt left out of the limelight, but whatever the motive a slew of military people went blasting down the street this morning, starting at 8:30 (today is Sunday…). Nothing was left out: horns, loud drum lines, people stomping around, peanuts, stray… [Read more…]
May 10, 2008
Today I had the pleasure of attending a reunion celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Rotary Club of Valparaíso, Bellavista, which is Paul Goldberg‘s host club. The event took place on a small parcela (ranch house), in the outskirts of Quilpué. On the menú was a feast of seafood stew called curanto. I filmed the… [Read more…]
May 8, 2008
Thursday, May 8th Students from various universities marched down Calle Condell, I suppose to Parque Italia or Parque O’Higgins*, dressed in black. There were also elementary school children and high school aged youth marching in the protest. They woke me out of bed, I went to the balcony of our apartment to watch hundreds of… [Read more…]
May 8, 2008
I couldn’t help posting about this wonderful site I came across that explains all of my favorite web things in “plain english”. Click here to find out what a blog is, and why you should get one! Click here to find out why you should be using del.icio.us bookmarking. Click here to find out what… [Read more…]
May 7, 2008
In light of all of the extreme events that have been happening here in Valparaíso, I thought I would make a partial time line for those of you on the outside. Start by reading my first post on the paro. Four universities have been collaborating with one another to make the impact of the paro… [Read more…]
May 25, 2008
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