On our third night in Patagonia, while we were eating dinner, a little girl came up to us and asked “Would you like a paper boat that I made?” She handed us three tiny, origami boats that she made at her table with her dad. As she left to gift the boats to other diners …
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The Rival
Chile and Peru and big-time rivals. There is definitely some bad blood there…see the War of the Pacific 1888, where Chile basically took a bunch of Peru and Bolivia’s territory to make their country longer than it already is… ok Chile. The Chileans and Peruvians are both convinced that their shared national liquor, pisco, originates …
Portugese?
My favorite movie for the longest time as a kid was “Rio,” the Disney about a blue parrot from Minnesota who goes to Rio de Janeiro because he is the last of his kind and needs to mate with this other parrot. The soundtrack is amazing, the colors are amazing; 10-year-old Cecilia was hooked. My …
One Month In, One Month Out
Today, November 14th, is an important day. It has been exactly one month since the protests started and our lives here turned upside down, but it is also one month from the day that I leave Chile. One month into protests, one month out from departure. A quick update about the current situation here is …
“Just Buy the Plane Ticket”
That was what my Colombian friend, Juan Pablo, told me when I expressed interest in coming to visit him in Colombia this fall. He told me that he was going to plan the whole trip and the only thing I had to do was tell him the dates that I was coming. As a person …
“It’s Not About 30 Pesos, It’s About 30 Years”
I have tried to start this post many times over the past week. I want to give a clear picture, an explanation, a justification to what is happening here in my beloved Chile. There are still so many questions, so many moving parts, so much in the unknown… hence my hesitation. Yet I want to …
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Exploring Another Planet
I cannot emphasize enough 1) how LONG Chile is as a country and 2) how many different landscapes it has. I honestly am still in shock from experiencing them basically back to back (see my last post for Chiloé in addition to this one). The Atacama Desert is the most arid desert in the world, …
Chiloé: An Island Paradise
Hola everyone! As I left off on the blog with Fiestas Patrias, I figured I would continue the adventures from that point forward. Since we get Fiestas Patrias as a vacation from school (Wednesday-Friday), my friends Kelsey, Erin, Marietta and I knew we wanted to take a trip somewhere else in Chile. Now during our …
¡Feliz Fiestas Patrias!
Hola everyone! Apologies that it has been so long since my last post, but a lot of stuff has been going on down here in South America! September is an incredibly important month for Chile. If you look at their history, a ton of really important events happen during this time. Everyone (from my host …
Colonialism
Does Spain come to terms with its colonial history? Is that something that they talk about and grapple with? Because dealing with the aftermath of colonialism is the way of life here – there would be no Chile without it, after all. Even being in Chile for just 3 weeks, the “coming-to-terms” with colonization is …
Cecilia in Chile - Fall 2019 