Arriving in Santiago
Hola de Santiago de Chile! After a few bumps in the road I have finally arrived in Chile. The day my flight was supposed to leave, there was a blizzard in Denver and all the flights out of the city...
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I am no longer convinced I work at the Gymnasium. On Monday, I was feeling sick, so I stayed home and rested. I mostly slept and drank tea. On Tuesday, I was needed in neither the 8C, or the 7B. I...
View ArticleUna Buena Primera Semana
I’ve successfully completed my first week in Chile! I don’t know where to even begin. Orientation has been extremely overwhelming with tons of information. It’s been easier to understand and talk in...
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Oxford Blues
A couple weekends ago, I went on a day-trip to Oxford and the Cotswolds. One two hour bus ride later and my friends and I arrived in Bourton-on-the-Water, a charmingly small town in the Cotswolds....
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All My Ireland Missions COMPLETE
When I came to Ireland, I had two VERY IMPORTANT things I wanted to do/see. I shall explain both of them. The first one is related to the book The Wish List by Eoin Colfer (of Artemis Fowl fame). In...
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Belfast
I didn’t know a lot about modern Irish history when I came over here. I taught myself about the Easter Rising because I loved Yeats and I knew he loved a woman who was involved in it, but it was so...
View ArticlePlease Take the Next Number, It Will be About 4 Hours
This week has basically been my first week by myself in the city. When I say this, I mean that I wasn’t in a classroom for orientation all day and had to navigate the city by myself. With this new...
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Lesson Learned…or Not. In which our heroine has multiple unfortunate...
According the the Ostsee Zeitung, last month was unprecedentedly cold, dark, and sunless. We were granted about 27 hours of sunlight in 28 days. Ugh. No wonder there is a plethora of sun lamps up...
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The Perfect Pair — Hiking and Salsa
Last weekend I decided to stay in Santiago rather than traveling out of the city. With orientation just ended, it was our first time to really relax and have some substantial time to explore our...
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Newgrange and Tara
This has been a busy week and since it’s not yet St Paddy’s Day, I’ll catch people up on a couple of tours I took. First off: Newgrange! Lovely, isn’t she? Newgrange is a mass burial mound and one of...
View ArticleTwenty-four hours
Within the first twenty-four hours of living in the greater Tokyo area, I was overjoyed to quickly find my place amid the Chiba prefecture’s serene, though hardly idle, urban culture. After an...
View ArticleBrief revelation
Tonight, I had nothing short of a revelation—one that thankfully applies to other people. I finally discovered a hint toward the inexplicable feeling I keep having here in Japan; a certain sense of...
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Finally Feeling Like a Chilean
I haven’t posted in a while, and I must give an explanation. Last week I went to the bottom of the earth—Patagonia. I spent 4 glorious days hiking around the national park Torres del Paine, seeing some...
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The perks of being a foreigner
Recently, I’ve been having trouble navigating the foliage of Makuhari’s sprawling concrete jungle. I’ve been getting lost and quite frequently, I might add. But in a place like Makuhari, with no...
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Kilkenny, Drocheda, and Dingle
It’s been a while, but I have been doing things! I visited a bunch of smaller towns recently. It was a bit strange comparing those towns to Dublin. First off, I dropped by Kilkenny. They have a...
View ArticleNature of Friendship
I’ve been thinking a lot about the nature of friendship. The combination of 1) graduating college and 2) moving to another country has had consequences. New friends entering my life, new friendships...
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Somos Famosos
While I am living with a host family, attending a Chilean school, speaking the Spanish language, and overall very immersed in the culture of Chile there will always be one thing holding me back from...
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Tidbits and Sundries
Germans do not understand the difference between cupcakes and muffins. I have tried to explain, several times, and I have even baked both, as examples, but they do not understand. This completely...
View ArticleMy Fútbol Debut
This last week has been so busy and I’ve done so many amazing and culturally enriching things. I went to a winery and sampled typical Chilean wine. I went to a festival celebrating the Mapuche people...
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Phoenix Park
It has been… well, I won’t say it’s been nice weather lately, but it’s been in the 50s and sunny more often than not, and that means we need to leave the house and enjoy what little Vitamin D we can...
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