Skype

Hey ladies! Just wanted to inform those of you who haven't heard, Skype has a new unlimited international calling plan for $9.95 a month. It's a pretty awesome deal, so I just signed up. Unfortunately it's only unlimited calling to landlines in Chile, not cell phones, but in the U.S. you can call unlimited to cells and home phones.

Just finished a two hour convo with my mom, gotta love it :)

I have a blog!

Hi ladies,
I just wanted to let you know I now have my own blog and am super excited about now being a serious participant in cyber world! Dorky, I know. But whatever, I figured you'd all get it, and perhaps even read it! I am still trying to figure out how to all the nitty gritty, like tagging and also how to put favorites or whatever. If you have any tips, pass them my way!
We gotta all plan another outing, and soon!

carinyo from an american keyboard

Tagging game

Hi guys (Thanks Emily for reminding me to tell you I'd tagged you!) just wanted to let you know that I tagged Kyle, Emily and Heather in a tagging game on my blog!

Hope you all had fabulous weekends! We got back from Viña last night and let me just tell you, it is FREEEEEZING there. About 10 degrees less than Santiago, so if any of you are planning to visit Viña soon, do wrap up nice and warm! :)

P.s: I'd appreciate any ideas for my blog title photo!

good ice cream in Viña?

Hey everyone, I was wondering if anyone knows of any good ice cream places in Viña, like of the home-made sort, along the lines of the heladerías El emporio la rosa or Il Maestrale that are here in Santiago. Any suggestions?

Books and Booze

I had so much fun with everyone last weekend! We definitely need to repitir sooner rather than later.

So Heather and I were talking today and we thought it would be fun to do a book exchange. I have lots of good stuff to loan out and I'm dying for new material to read...

Maybe we could do a books and booze partay. If we all bring wine and literature I think that would make everyone pretty happy :) This time it could be just us, no parejas, what do you guys think?

WordReference.com

Heyya gringas,

It just occurred to me that you guys may be interested in this online dictionary (WordReference.com), if you haven't already come across it. I found it about a year and a half ago and have pretty much been living there ever since. For example, I just found "dientes de dragón" on it. This is a common stirfry ingredient in Chile but not in the States (as far as I am aware of) so I didn't know how to translate it to English. Turns out it translates as "soybean sprouts". The beauty of the dictionary is that if the word or expression you are looking for isn't in the dictionary than you can post the expression in English or Spanish (or other languages) and people will tell you what it means. There are few words the other members haven't been able to translate for me, one of them is "voguing". But I've had hundreds of words and expressions translated there. And since there are thousands of people logged on during the day, the translations generally are pretty quick.

Also, here are a few chilenismos dictionaries, just in case. This is my personal fave, though it's all in Chilean spanish: http://www.mainframe.cl/diccionario/diccionario.php?palabra=maca&accion=Buscar

Here is another, but in Chileno and English: http://www.quewea.com/slang.php

Here's a list of some phrases and an endorsment for a book: http://www.joeskitchen.com/chile/culture/slang.htm

Feel free to add any other resources you guys have found that help.

Saludos!