Imagine that in an emergency situation, you have to charter a boat, cross a lake, and travel up a mountainside to reach the nearest hospital. Now imagine that when you reach this hospital, no one speaks your language. Before Hospitalito Atitlán existed, this is exactly what the residents of Santiag[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Santiago’
December 14th, 2010 - 5:22 pm § in Tips & Resources
Book Review: The Road Less Traveled
Travelers are always seeking a road less traveled. Sometimes you travel to embrace new challenges. Other times you travel to escape current ones. Either way, the act of journeying to another place lends itself to finding truth. It takes you away from your day-to-day routine, and forces you to ask [...]
November 16th, 2010 - 11:22 am § in Chile
Life is Good
I returned to Chile after a marvelous month at home with my dear family and friends. I had nothing but a one-way ticket in hand, some luggage, no place to live and no job. But I’m blessed with a wonderfully kind friend, Maria Jesu, whom I stayed with when I first arrived while I searched for [[...]
Life and Death
9:34 a.m. I’m sitting in a cafe in downtown Minneapolis, eating breakfast with my dear friends Rachael and Jarvi hours before I board my flight back to Santiago. I get a call from my mom and I silence it, trying to give my undivided attention. 9:38 a.m. I receive a second call from my mom an[...]
Those Odds Are Stacked: A Bit About Puerto Aisén, Chile
“You’re from the United States? Why did you come to Puerto Aisén?” has been a common theme in my conversations for the last six months. Folks are, understandably, fairly incredulous that I’ve rejected the Land of Plenty in favor of this rather dirty and depressed town known to locals as Mue[...]
September 14th, 2010 - 8:41 am § in Around Town, Chile, In the Field, Looking for Opportunity, Tips & Resources, Volunteer
“Follow Your Bliss”
It’s an odd sensation going through the same orientation I went through three months ago as a new volunteer, only this time as an “antigua” rather than a “newbie,” as VE Global likes to refer to their respective volunteers. Being on the side of preparation and serving r[...]
