About a year and a half ago, I visited a friend in New York who works for a hedge fund. “And what do you do?” her friends asked me, as we lazed in Central Park. The answer – volunteer programs management at an NGO – elicited a quite surprising amount of admiration, albeit tinged with schaden[...]
Posts Tagged ‘vidauruguaya’
Have a Happy (anti) Halloween
I didn’t like Halloween when I was a kid. I was too self-conscious for the school parade part, and too shy for the knocking on strangers’ doors part. It was a relief to move to Chile in 2003 and more or less ignore the day. Many people didn’t like the concept of Halloween because[...]
Street Art from the Southern Cone
Urban space as a live canvas. I can be a difficult person to travel with down here in the Southern Cone: walk two feet, stop, fish out camera, narrowly avoid traffic, squirrel away camera again. I once wandered Buenos Aires with a classmate who was working with graffiti artists. They told her (I va[...]
Why I’m Like a Potato Chip, and Other Adventures in Advertising
I’ve been watching a lot of soccer over the past few weeks, and that means I’ve been watching quite a few television commercials for the first time since my arrival. Although Uruguay’s World Cup adverts can’t compete with, say, the robust absurdity of Kia’s Soul driving[...]
