Just got an email from the Spanish House, and I'm not in. Pooh.

Latin American Visual Culture
Latin American Dialectology
Translation Theory
Cultural Anthropology

Hmmmm...you think I'm a humanities student?
Drop me a line if you're signing up for one of these classes!
-Sam

Well, I hate to admit it,but I'm reaching the beginning of the end of my semester here. Patrick went home Monday after a big send-off party (I made a spinach salad that was well-recieved by all! Nobody got sick!) He's planning on coming up to visit the NY area in January, so Lindsay (from Elmira, NY) and I are happy about that. Yuji's gone to ( Read more... )

...Oh, yes, my weekend. Went to Applebee´s (gringo restaurants aren't my normal idea of fun in Latin America, but it wasn't my idea), met Joe, a friend of Lindsay's, who's a Marine from Washington State stationed at the Embassy as a guard (he's actually taking Lindsay to the Marine Ball sometime next month). Hung out there for a while, then went ( Read more... )

I don't think I post enough about my general life outside of my excursions out of Santiago, and I've had a pretty good weekend, so what the heck, I'll talk about my general social life ( Read more... )

wow, after spending an incredible long weekend in the world´s driest desert, coming back to classes and typing in a sweltering hot computer lab is less than exciting. Just thought I'd get that off my chest ( Read more... )

Who would have thought that in the span of a week and a half, I would have spent a total of over 70 hours in buses? (20 hours to Pucon and back, 48 hours to San Pedro de Atacama and back, and 3 hours from San Pedro to Calama and back). I'm actually beginning to find them enjoyable ( Read more... )

For the sake of compactness, I will be using the famed "LJ Cut" for this entry. Be afraid. Be very afraid. Let's start with...
( Buenos Aires, October 7-10 )

What the hell does that huaso ahuevonado in the White House think he's doing?!?!! First, he puts a non-Supreme Court judge in as Chief Justice, which is bad enough. Then he puts a woman with NO EXPERIENCE AS A JUDGE WHATSOEVER in for Sandra Day O'Connor. (There must be a sexual favor in there somewhere ( Read more... )

Documental "Chasing the law ( Read more... )