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 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…]
April 19, 2008
The students at my school are on strike right now, protesting bus prices which are set to be raised over 50%. Buses are the main means of transportation in Valparaíso. Some departments were on strike up until this past Friday, others are on strike indefinitely until the situation is resolved. Students are not going to… [Read more…]
April 3, 2008
This past week was Semana Novata, a week which celebrates freshman. Classes are suspended, and each evening boasts an event hosted by the university’s federación estudiantil, or student body. To take advantage of this week off school, I along with two other girls studying at PUCV on exchange went camping at the National Reserve Siete… [Read more…]
March 25, 2008
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 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…]
May 25, 2008
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