Far and Away

Featured image: It is ridiculous that nature creates things this beautiful: Laguna Verde @ Cerro Castillo. In eight days, I will have lived in Chile for five months. FIVE ENTIRE MONTHS! I think part of what makes living in a different country so special is how quickly the things you believed about yourself can shift. For example, before leaving for Chile, I could not imagine going abroad for an entire year. I had a couple of friends who were, and…

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Featured image: The greatest photo of all time: My uncle and aunt from the states, my friends Mason, Sidra, Benji, and Kat, and Omar and his entire family all united for breakfast! Today, I was walking home and I saw a kid who could not have been older than seven ask his mom, “What is the relationship to what is happening right now to the Dictatorship? Is it because people want a better life but can’t have it?” His mom…

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Featured image: Kat, Omar, and me in front of the lookout at the Sebastiana in Valparaíso, one of Pablo Neruda’s famous homes. So… this was technically due a week ago and believe me, it was my intention to get it turned in on time. However, this was made less possible by the current political unrest going on in Chile that started more or less this past Friday, October 18 and that spread to the region of Valparaíso (where I live)…

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Featured image: I am IN LOVE with las puestas de sol (sunsets) in Viña del Mar. Do you know how earth-shattering it is to realize you have been washing your hands incorrectly for the last 20 years? The correct technique to wash my hands—let me tell you, it is a complicated series of movements and twists and paper towels—is just one of the many things I have learned during the last two (!) months of living in Viña del Mar,…

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