Protests, terremotos, and beaches in the winter

¡Hola todos! The past few days in/near Santiago have been exciting! Here’s what I’ve been up to since my last post: I went on a three-day retreat with my study abroad group to a beach town near Santiago learned more about Monica and Sergio’s family started to do some preliminary research on my honors thesis…

It’s only Tuesday?

(Edited 26-6-12: added food and chilenismos) But I feel like I’ve been here for ages! Nope. Just finished my second day in Chile! Huzzah! On the plane ride over here I had a lot (a lot) of time to think about how I want to structure my posts. Ideally, they would 1) not be too lengthy,…