Author Archives: acs17
“Los Dos Lados de La Moneda”
I saw this show, “El Año en que Nací,” at the Centro Cultural Gabriela Mistral on Sunday, June 17th. According to this website, the summary of the show is “Jóvenes nacidos durante la dictadura reconstruyen la juventud de sus padres … Continue reading
San Pedro de Atacama
“Antes que nada,” can we just marvel at the fact that I managed to go from the world’s most remote inhabited island to the world’s driest desert in a matter of four days? CHILE, YOU ARE SO INCREDIBLY INTERESTING AND … Continue reading
Isla de Pascua
In the past two weeks, I have managed to travel from one end of Chile to the other! I’m not going to count this past weekend since it mostly involved me sitting in my room, playing Jewelquest on my phone, … Continue reading
A Room With A View
This is just the view from the bathroom…absolutely incredible. I am going to miss looking at the mountains every day. PS: Easter Island/Atacama/life updates coming up very soon!
Mi Primer Partido de Fútbol!
“Vamos la U!” La U = La Universidad de Chile. Though one might think that this soccer team is just the Universidad de Chile’s soccer time, the name is very deceiving. Students from La Chile DID form the team in … Continue reading
La Cuarta Region and Santiago Adventures
We left Wednesday night from Santiago by bus and arrived in La Serena at around 2am…yikes. We went on a boat ride on Thursday in Punta Choros and went to the Reserva Pinguino in Humbolt, which was cool. Sea lions, … Continue reading
La Marcha, Viña, Cementerio y Villa Grimaldi
Hey all! Apologies (as always) for my lack of updates. I’ve been super busy and I cannot believe how the time is flying. The first big student protest of the semester (La Marcha Por La Educación) was on April 25th, … Continue reading
La Quinta Region
I traveled to the 5th Region of Chile (Valparaiso and Viña del Mar) with CIEE the weekend of April 13th-15th. The week of the trip was fairly normal. I made brownies with a friend from my program on the 11th, … Continue reading
Semana Santa: Mendoza
Better known as the weekend that I traveled alone via bus to Argentina and the people at border control almost barred me from entering the country. Whoops! More on that later. I went to Mendoza with three other friends…another friend … Continue reading
How is it already April?
At the request of a certain blonde South African friend (and because this has been on my to-do list for almost two weeks), it’s time for another blog update! My first test was on March 22nd in my Antropologia Chilena … Continue reading
A Chilanga in Chile 