Thursday, August 14, 2003
Chilling in the DRCLAS office, drinking orange juice like theres none tomorrow (there probably won{t be). I had a dream about a cupboard full of bread. and salads!
On a wooden wall by a construction site near the office, there are three stamped Bushes with Mickey Mouse ears, and underneath, "Disney War".
So tuesday after Uchile class, I was waiting for a bus when all the northboard traffic started turning left/ uturning. This caused one southbound taxi to blare his horn and try to ram through the stream kamikaze like, after which a carabinero popped up. Then a girl from my class (from MI) came ovre and said I wasn{t going to get my bus...apparently a couple blocks up guys with flaming tires had blocked traffic, and were throwing rocks and/or pamphlets.
A nice prelude for yesterday, when there was a Paro. Most of the micros weren{t running, and my host parents looked at my really skeptically when I said I need to go to school. Uchile apparently was really dangerous, rocks and protests and such. But San Joaquin (U Catolica) there was nary a thing. and I got to hear Miguel Littin speak (though I was exhausted from my host brother and his friends playing soccer on PS2 until 6 in the morning monday night).
Scott came to town for the day, and was walking around Alameda, and said there was pretty much no one, and remnents of tear gas near La Moneda.
Oh so, syllabi here are pretty vague things, causing a little bit of panic among us gringos (when do we have to read these 25 books by? in their entirety or no?). But very few books are bought- photocopying is the norm and copyright fees are non existent.
On a wooden wall by a construction site near the office, there are three stamped Bushes with Mickey Mouse ears, and underneath, "Disney War".
So tuesday after Uchile class, I was waiting for a bus when all the northboard traffic started turning left/ uturning. This caused one southbound taxi to blare his horn and try to ram through the stream kamikaze like, after which a carabinero popped up. Then a girl from my class (from MI) came ovre and said I wasn{t going to get my bus...apparently a couple blocks up guys with flaming tires had blocked traffic, and were throwing rocks and/or pamphlets.
A nice prelude for yesterday, when there was a Paro. Most of the micros weren{t running, and my host parents looked at my really skeptically when I said I need to go to school. Uchile apparently was really dangerous, rocks and protests and such. But San Joaquin (U Catolica) there was nary a thing. and I got to hear Miguel Littin speak (though I was exhausted from my host brother and his friends playing soccer on PS2 until 6 in the morning monday night).
Scott came to town for the day, and was walking around Alameda, and said there was pretty much no one, and remnents of tear gas near La Moneda.
Oh so, syllabi here are pretty vague things, causing a little bit of panic among us gringos (when do we have to read these 25 books by? in their entirety or no?). But very few books are bought- photocopying is the norm and copyright fees are non existent.
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