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 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 4, 2008
This is an update e-mail I sent to my family last night: Mom, Family and Friends, I am on a different keyboard, so forgive me if i make a million mistakes.! I arrived today, Pablo picked me up from the airport and we took a bus directly to Viña del Mar. We spent some time with… [Read more…]
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