I have one essay left for my Administrative Environmental Law class and then I am done with the semester. I passed (so far) the majority of my classes with flying colors. I have picked out ten classes that I want to take for the next term. Once the semester starts I will be able to drop and add to make the number more manageable.
Among them:
Ethnomusic: overview of Chilean ethnic dances and their respective regions and meaning
Fundamentals of Literary Lingüistics
Oratoria 1: speech giving in Spanish
Paul has been making significant progress building shelving for the library at Escuela David Ben Gurion; I was there yesterday helping him move around desks and sort through speakers and other cachureo. Our hope is that today an organization will be coming by the school to pick up all of the dysfunctional electronics to be recycled. Over the break I will be working on a video explaining Scholars for Schools. I am also working on getting scholarsforschools.cl up and running, but it is taking longer than expected.
I feel like I have been in Valparaíso for awhile now, more than ever because the majority of my amigos from last semester have already head home. My buddies from my trip to Siete Tazas are gone–Gretchen and Emily. Gretchen left late last month, and Emily left yesterday. Before Emily went we got together at her house with some other friends, and I had the chance to meet the owner of where she was living, Elena Gallegos.
Elena is a textile artist who lived in Australia for over 35 years. She has an enormous loom in the house, and she works with metals and fabrics to express different themes. It was really a pleasure to talk with her and see her art up close. I hope to keep in touch with her and hopefully pick up some new hobbies from the experience.
One of Elena’s pieces
Elena’s loom
For more photos of Elena’s weaving collections and artwork click here: http://gallery.hannahkelley.org/Chile/elenagallegos
On another note, a friend here, Meredith, is trying to put together a bilingual event listing for Valparaíso called Atenea. She is teaching English in the area. The future website is http://www.atenea-valparaiso.org.
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