I can’t believe it. The day has finally come. Today, after being home for the past 3 weeks, I have finally updated my current city on Facebook from Santiago, Chile to Madison, WI. I am …
Heather Smaby
Backpacker
You know that game ‘two truths and a lie’? Just in case the self-explanatory title wasn’t enough, I will give you a brief summary here: Basically, two truths and a lie is the classic get-to-know-you …
The Green Inferno
So it is quite possible that The Green Inferno will be my favorite movie of all time. Why, might you ask? Is it such an action-packed story that you can’t help but be sucked in …
The Final Countdown
Less than 3 weeks remain until I leave my Santiago summer dreamland and return to the winter wonderland of Wisconsin. What does this mean for my blog post writing? It has pretty much taken the …
The Acknowledgements Page
Today is Thanksgiving Day and it is HOT outside. No, it is not the Wisconsin version of a ‘warm’ Thanksgiving, it is an honest-to-goodness hot, lay-in-the-sun and don´t-forget-your-sunscreen type of day. My body is officially …
The middle of nowhere
Do you remember how I said that it takes me almost 2 hours to get to the colegio where I teach English classes if I use public transportation? The first couple of weeks, I didn’t …
Hooray, Hooray, it’s Election Day!
So I meant to write this blog post over a week ago, when there were elections going on here in Chile, but things got too crazy and I ran out of time. But guess what?!? …
My Gringa Life
So for my class called ‘Nonverbal and Oral Communication’, today we had to give a 2 minute speech. That isn’t too difficult, but here’s the catch: we had absolutely no limitations on what we could …
Catch Up
My entire organizational system in Chile revolves around a ton of yellow sticky notes on my computer that have reminders, due dates, trip plans, etc. written all over them. I have one sticky note that …
Celebrity Or Alien?
I am beginning to feel like my entire semester studying abroad is actually just one super long vacation. In the past few weeks, I have literally been traveling more days than I have actually been …