2.1: Off to Talca

This morning I am off to Marlen's farm in Talca with the other Duke students and Antonio for the weekend. During the course of this week, I will work on the following series of posts drawing from weeks 1 and 2, before I return to posting in "real time."

• Geotermia and the Chilean energy system
• El sistema de educación
• Palta, picante como pimienta, and other aspects of Chilean food
• Evolution of the projects at CEPA
• Culture shock progression: feeling "stage 2" about "stage 1".
• Tertulia with Manuel Valdes and Miguel Rogers
• Grant has done a great job of chronicling a wide variety of the experiences we’ve been having; I’d recommend all his posts, but I've found the entries on Transantiago, First week impressions, and Vamos vamos chilenos to be especially insightful.
• Jordan has most recently posted about the game and about huevón, the epitome of Chilean slang. I intend to do my own entry on some chilenismos eventually, but his post is a great place to start.