At the beginning of this trip I made a list of must-try Chilean foods (using the internet and recommendations from friends who have...

So, most people know more about the outdoor gear brand Patagonia than the namesake region itself. Fun fact: the place we hiked to on...

Flash back to our first day here. We had just gotten off of an overnight flight during which we hadn't really managed to sleep, and we...

Today was our final day of teaching. It was a bittersweet ending. We're really proud of our students, but we will miss them! We shared...

Three weeks fly by quite quickly! It's sad that we'll be leaving our wonderful students after this week. While our time teaching them was...

La Vega is an enormous open-air market located at the southern tip of the district of Recoleta, Santiago. Think Costco but bigger,...

Our first weekend here, I was really intrigued by the floods of people biking in the street along the river. Yes, in the street. It turns...

TLDR: In this post, I write a bunch about our 24 hours in Valparaíso. Skip to the end if you’d rather just see the gallery of pictures!...

(this tour occurred in the San Pedro last weekend, I have just taken a while to write about it) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

The Atacama is known as one of the best places in the world to see the stars. In fact, it is home to ALMA (Atacama Large...

I've always wanted to go to the moon, but without 20/20 vision and with less than 1,000 hours of jet pilot experience, it seems unlikely....

One of my favorite things about traveling is the chance to realize what you don't realize in your day to day life regarding what is...

Our weekend trip to the Atacama was so jam-packed that we are breaking the days into pieces and each taking parts to write about....

I love traveling and organization, so combining those two is always quite a thrill. Packing my tiny 13L daypack (normal school backpacks...

On Tuesday, Alex, Andrea and I had the day off. We spent the morning collaborating with the graduate students assisting our class to plan...

We have eaten some good stuff so far, most of it not authentically Chilean but all delicious! Some of the pictures below are of homemade...

So many people asked me before I left "Are you teaching in English or Spanish?" to which I laughed and said "Oh English, thank goodness"...

Today was everyone's first day of teaching; however, Kate and An had a much more real start than I (one will hopefully discuss in a...

Well it feels like we've already learned a lot in the few hours we've been in Santiago. None of us really slept on the overnight plane...