Traveling at an Odd Time

Stories are coming faster than I can write them down. I hate that feeling. Time is cheating me here.
Truthfully, until about a week and a half ago, I was unaware of time passing. Or at least only vaguely so. It was only at Isla Negra, while I was feeling like I had died and gone [...]

20 Questions

Great moment at breakfast today. My host family loves to ask overly direct questions. Especially at meals, preferably when I’m dead tired. I think this is more amusing than rude. I’m not sure if this is a Chilean cultural thing or just something my family saves for their Stanford students. But I know they’re just [...]

Amazing Grace in Patagonia

I have every right to be a little bit tacky when I see something this incredible. Took me a week to write about it, I know. But now that I’ve plowed through a tedious set of final papers and Spanish vocabulary words I’m ready to take a look at my journal and tell you the [...]

Thank you notes

Yes, I know Thanksgiving was last week, but I was too behind on homework to write a long blog entry.
I wrote a few thank you notes to various people in the past week and a half, and it felt right to share them. I’m also writing thank-you’s to a few others who never got [...]

Regressed to age 15

Hello my name is Annie and I have had a celebrity crush for 5 days. I am not proud of this. It’s like my inner middle schooler is making a comeback.

This is Juanes. He’s Colombian pop/rock star who writes incredibly catchy songs with lots of loud guitar. He’s also probably the most famous [...]

The Dancing Issue

Last week, I went out dancing without any fellow English speakers.
I went with a Chilean friend and a few of his friends up to Avenida Vitacura, a nicer part of town rumored to have a good nightlife. I hadn’t been before since I heard it was expensive, but the place we went to was [...]

Architecture School

 

This has to be the most original, off the wall thing I’ve seen in Chile. Guidebooks don’t talk about it since it’s out of the way and not particularly touristy. I only found it through a wikipedia article I read for Spanish class.
La Ciudad Abierta de Ritoque (Open City of Ritoque) is a project developed [...]

BEST Picture I’ve Taken Here

Someone decided to “mess with Texas” now that we’re electing a new President. Way to have a sense of humor Chile.

The Halloween Dilemma

Imagine: 10 pm. Friday night. It’s Halloween and I have conveniently forgotten to buy anything close to a costume. Being the one person to not wear a costume feels worse than being the only one wearing one– as if I’m really boring or something. So I am staring at my closet wondering what I can [...]

The Beauty of Travel Songs

At some odd moment tonight, I realized that songs about traveling make an incredibly strong impression on me. Not just because I’m living abroad and all that– they always have, and I doubt this is just a personal quirk. After a little searching in my itunes library, I realized that some of the most classic, [...]