Archive for October, 2006
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Saturday, October 21st, 2006
Chile Soccer vs. Argentine Soccer
Featured Audio: Soccer Match in Chile (1min 128kbps MP3)
I spent an evening watching soccer at a grease joint on the main drag in downtown Santiago. Have a listen:
Listen to Audio of Soccer Match in Chile
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Friday, October 20th, 2006
Santiago de Chile, buying an electrical adaptor
Within the first hour in the spacious accomodations of Hotel Plaza Londres, I realized that my computer batteries wouldn’t keep a charge for the next 10 weeks, and so I needed to plug in. Ordinarily, this wouldn’t be a problem in any hotel, but after searching high and low for an outlet in my room, I realized that the television was plugged into a receptacle that looked something like this:
This is where four years of university training as an electical engineer come in handy. In a flash of unmitigated brilliance, I recognized immediately that my three-prong-genie from the U.S.
needed some serious modification to fit into that three-hole-in-a-row contraption. After several hours of focused measurement,
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Tuesday, October 17th, 2006
Santiago de Chile, Day 1 First Impressions
The dawning sunlight shot straight across the expanse empty space, through the outer and nearer atmospheres, into the left-hand side window, across the airplane and straight into my sleep-deprived eyes. We had just witnessed sunrise from 30,000 feet, and with the windowshades open and a meager American Airlines croissant and yogurt breakfast in our stomachs, we began to make the descent into my new home for the next 10 weeks, Santiago de Chile, the capital of the string-bean country on the western shores of South America.
Santiago rests in a wide bowl, my starboard-side window revealed the low chain of mountaintops that separates the capital from the port city of Valparaiso, and by peering across the Boing 767,
