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May 12th, 2011 - 5:23 am § in Culture, Day in the Life, Venezuela

Culture Shock: Moving from Acceptance to Understanding

...We were introduced to the concept of Monochronic and Polychronic time and how they influence priorities. Monochronic people – those raised in the United States, for example – see time as a line with concrete progressions. Agendas mean more, as do appointments and tangible plans. Latin America[...]

September 17th, 2010 - 10:51 am § in Around Town, Costa Rica, Culture, Day in the Life, Volunteer

Office-Errr, House Hours

I live in the country.  So I don’t wake up to things that people in the city typically wake up to – horns, motors, people yelling, etc.  The three things I normally wake up to, which infallibly I can count on as my alarm clock, are the following: 1.  The rooster.  The nearby neighbor[...]

September 9th, 2010 - 1:47 pm § in Around Town, Culture, Day in the Life, In the Field, Uruguay

Likes

As I mentioned a few weeks ago, one question I field frequently is “Is Uruguay what you expected?” The other, not surprisingly, is “Do you like it here?” It’s easy to provide an unequivocal “Yes!” (exaggerated head nod, bright smile) but then I get asked: “What do you lik[...]

May 20th, 2010 - 7:01 am § in Culture, Day in the Life, Uruguay

Do You Mean Now or Really Now?

Many years ago I had a date in Santiago, Chile. Despite taking a long detour on the wrong bus, I sprinted up to our meeting point only five minutes behind schedule – not bad by Chilean standards nor in light of my own chronic lateness. My erstwhile Chilean date took one disapproving look at me. [.[...]

March 30th, 2010 - 5:33 pm § in Argentina, Around Town, In the Field, Volunteer

Balancing Your Life

Reading the recent posts Living in Two Worlds at Once and Living a Double Life got me thinking about a challenge I feel like I’ve been working on for most of my life. How do you balance your time among all those parts of your life that you want the most? During my time in [...][...]

January 22nd, 2010 - 10:29 am § in Argentina

Arriving Just In Time

I left home days before the calendar changed from 2009 to 2010. A date I vacillated upon for weeks, finally ticketing my flight three weeks before departure (despite daily ridicule from friends and colleagues). I couldn’t decide whether to give myself more time to finish projects at home where I [...]





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