Even though I blog about every week, its so impossible to capture everything that has been happening in my life in Chile! Today was amazing, this will sound really cheesy but I just felt so alive! Being here in Chile, with my photography and journalism friends has made me so certain and so passionate about [...]
So many things to catch up on, I don’t even know where to start! I’m happy to say that I now finally feel a little bit more at home here, I have my group of friends at school that I go to lunch with instead of solo all the time, to go out with on [...]
I am now a 20 year old Chilean… well at least half of that statement is true! Thank goodness for Easter break, while a lot of the other gringas here have their family from the USA visiting, or took an overly priced bus ticket up to the north for a weekend getaway Teresa and I [...]
So, I’m suppose to be reading a huge article right now for my Poverty and Development class that I have in about an hour, but I thought it would be more productive just to blog. (: This last week has gone by really fast! I can’t believe that it is going to be April in [...]
This past weekend the other girls and I from the U.S.A took a trip down to the coast to a little beach surf town called Pichilemu, it is where Jack Johnson filmed one of his music videos, no joke. We took a bus down after our classes on friday, it was about a 4 hour [...]
I came across one of the best quotes that I’ve seen in a long time, and I decided that I really want to try and make it theme of this journey for me. It goes a little something like this- “The best thing for being sad is to learn something. That is the only thing [...]
Yesterday I had my first real day of meeting the other college students here at Alberto Hurtado! My university is very different than Loyola for a lot of reasons, first off there is actually an equal ratio of sexes, if not even more boys than girls.. my life feels more like it is at an [...]
Wow, so here I am- back to home sweet home Santiago after 3 weeks backpacking throughout the south of Chile! I could literally probably write a novel about all of our experiences in the past few weeks, but to sum it up, we were so so so lucky. We had amazing weather almost the whole [...]
Ah fresh starts, you have to love them. So, as a few of you may know I was having issues with my old host family..I won’t get into because es el pasado, but today after a lot of packing, more tears (when my host mother was being mean again) and finally new contracts signed- here [...]
Buenos Noches! Ah it is finally my favorite time of the day, when you can finally relax and lay in bed after a long day. Today was just another long, tiring Monday in Santiago consisting of waking up around 8 am to the construction 10 feet from my apartment, stray dogs yelping, fighting and mating [...]