http://hannahkelley.org Academic Ambassadorial Scholar to Valparaíso Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:16:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If you have been in touch with me other than through my blog, you may already know about a project I have developed with three other Rotary Scholars in Valparaíso called Scholars for Schools. In a nutshell, this project is helping to bridge the gap between public and private education ... http://hannahkelley.org/2008/06/10/scholars-for-schools 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 ... http://hannahkelley.org/2008/05/25/santiago-trip-with-california-rotary-gse-team --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 ... http://hannahkelley.org/2008/05/18/condell-street 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 ... http://hannahkelley.org/2008/05/10/20th-anniversary-of-the-rotary-club-of-valparaiso-bellavista 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 ... http://hannahkelley.org/2008/05/08/100 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 ... http://hannahkelley.org/2008/05/08/why-you-should-use-delicious-blogs-and-other-web-tools 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 ... http://hannahkelley.org/2008/05/07/pucv-still-in-paro 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 ... http://hannahkelley.org/2008/04/19/pucv-valparaiso-student-strike