Back in Santiago for a few days before flying to New York, I’ve had plenty of time to ponder the differences between Aysén and this sprawling capital city where I lived for a year. After the tranquility of Patagonia, where wood fires are still being kindled to fight the cold, returning to San[...]
Posts Tagged ‘cultural differences’
Lessons of Working in Another Culture
Long-term international development work is a unique experience. It’s quite different than just moving to a new city in your own culture to start a job. Not only do you know no one, but you also don’t know the culture and how they work. Can they work as a team? Can they not? Are they effici[...]
Living the High Life (and not even knowing it)
I don’t know why I hate the idea of me being rich. Maybe its because I don’t like people who flaunt money, or because I’m jealous I never will be rich, or because I’m a good-old America-hating socialist. Whatever it is, that label was put upon me recently. It made me really u[...]
