I have a friend who worked for the Peace Corps in Central Africa Republic. (She has negative things to say about the Peace Corps, by the way.) She said the toilets actually do swirl in a different direction. Because she was a few steps away from the equator, she said it didn't take many steps over that line for the change in direction to happen.
Happy Traveling! Those photos do resemble Melbourne a bit. We have been here in Brisbane(also Yeppoon), for a week and I am already missing Melbourne.
Santiago sounds lovely. Matt's sister is out there with her boyfriend right now and told us how the place completely shut down on Christmas Eve. They went to a pub for some drinks and everything was boarding up. We were thinking it was due to the major Catholic community over there.
I love traveling. The surprises and cultural differences. It really makes you stretch as a person and get out of your comfort zone. Wishing you warm experiences.
Yeah, I´m starting to really enjoy the challenges as well... it took a while... it always does.
Santiago´s pretty well shut down for New Year as well. I can´t even find a place to do laundry, which is a bit of a worry. I´m not sure if I want to test John Safran´s theory about underwear, that you can wear it four times: forwards, backwards, inside-out forwards and inside-out backwards. =/
I wish I´d known about Matt´s sister and boyfriend-it would´ve been fun to meet up. I head off to Mendoza tomorrow, though.
Laundry is being done as I type... I'll put it on the line in a moment. Argentine is civilised enough not to use dryers when it's thirty-something degress celcius outside. =)
I normally run into Aussies while travelling all the time, but I'm running into fewer travellers in general here in South America. This surprises me, because it's vibrant, beautiful and inexpensive. But I always meet as many Australians in my travel as Americans, even though there are 15 times as many Americans in the world as Australians. It's because at any time, 5% of Australians are overseas.
One thing I found strange is that advertisements featured almost exclusively white people, even though the population had mainly Latinos.
Ahh. Sí. Colorismo.(Colo(u)rism) It's very, very common globally. BTW, "Latino" in Chile would include the white people, I think perhaps you mean mestizos (the mixed heritage - European/"indio" - people), or perhaps even what Mexicans label "indios". (Indigenous/Native/etc. terms vary so much, and I have no idea what Chileans prefer.) There's a whole vocabulary for discussing this issue. Mestizaje is the one I know. (Even what little I know is a several hour discussion. I have friends who are much more in the know about South American cultural/"racial" issues, but in my up-too-early haze, I can't think of who they are. ;P)
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Santiago sounds lovely. Matt's sister is out there with her boyfriend right now and told us how the place completely shut down on Christmas Eve. They went to a pub for some drinks and everything was boarding up. We were thinking it was due to the major Catholic community over there.
I love traveling. The surprises and cultural differences. It really makes you stretch as a person and get out of your comfort zone. Wishing you warm experiences.
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Santiago´s pretty well shut down for New Year as well. I can´t even find a place to do laundry, which is a bit of a worry. I´m not sure if I want to test John Safran´s theory about underwear, that you can wear it four times: forwards, backwards, inside-out forwards and inside-out backwards. =/
I wish I´d known about Matt´s sister and boyfriend-it would´ve been fun to meet up. I head off to Mendoza tomorrow, though.
Happy noo year!
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I normally run into Aussies while travelling all the time, but I'm running into fewer travellers in general here in South America. This surprises me, because it's vibrant, beautiful and inexpensive. But I always meet as many Australians in my travel as Americans, even though there are 15 times as many Americans in the world as Australians. It's because at any time, 5% of Australians are overseas.
I recently read an article about Australians' attitudes towards Americans:
http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/how-we-love--and-hate--americans/2007/12/09/1197135289420.html But don't worry, no matter where you go in the world, the more interesting, educated people understand that not all Americans support U.S. policy and culture.
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Ahh. Sí. Colorismo.(Colo(u)rism) It's very, very common globally. BTW, "Latino" in Chile would include the white people, I think perhaps you mean mestizos (the mixed heritage - European/"indio" - people), or perhaps even what Mexicans label "indios". (Indigenous/Native/etc. terms vary so much, and I have no idea what Chileans prefer.) There's a whole vocabulary for discussing this issue. Mestizaje is the one I know. (Even what little I know is a several hour discussion. I have friends who are much more in the know about South American cultural/"racial" issues, but in my up-too-early haze, I can't think of who they are. ;P)
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