Category: Chile

  • To Say Goodbye After All This Time

    To Say Goodbye After All This Time

    At our last group gathering of the trip, just hours before some of us had to leave and just hours after some had already gone, Lukas gave a speech. Suddenly, everyone was standing up and saying how grateful they were, in a way that was so authentically them.  Lukas told us how we’d all meet…

  • Chile Reflection

    Chile Reflection

    I used to write reflections for each country I visited when I was traveling with Semester at Sea. This is something I wrote just a day or two after getting back to the states, but I never got around to posting it. It didn’t feel right, talking about my time in Chile as such a…

  • Pucón- A Mountain and a Mindset

    Pucón- A Mountain and a Mindset

    43. That’s how many days of living in Chile that it took me before I got truly overwhelmed. By the crowds on the metro and then in the bus station and with the heat and the constant busyness of it all.  These feelings could not have come at a more appropriate time it felt, after…