Every Christmas my family and I take a trip to Chile’s capital Santiago to visit my mom’s side of the family. But this year’s trip was different. With the pandemic at its peak, my family and I were nervous to make the trip, but desperately wanted to visit my family especially since it had been...
I’m exceptionally good at being late. Chile was my home for seven days over Christmas break, and I realized my South American family is a lot more like me than I thought, for which I’ll always be thankful. Flexibility is every Chilean’s best friend. Time goes by, and sometimes they show up late — or...
Every once in a while, I disappear to a place none of my friends have visited: Chile. Twenty-five years ago my dad, an American man named Tim, started working as a mining engineer in Tucson, Arizona. One weekend, he decided to vacation in Prague, in the Czech Republic A Chilean woman — Rosario — who...