by Sally Rose | Feb 18, 2018 | Chile, Expat, Teaching, Travel
The Chilean school year will be starting soon, so I’m taking this opportunity to post an excerpt from my memoir, A Million Sticky Kisses. It’s about my first day at school in Santiago, Chile. From A Million Sticky Kisses: “Peter, who had picked me up...
by Sally Rose | Oct 22, 2017 | Chile, Expat, Teaching, Travel
“¿Cómo aprendiste tu inglés?” I turned to look at the small boy standing next to me on the Metro train. How did you learn English? He had obviously been listening to me and my friends speaking in English. “Just like you learned Spanish,” I told...
by Sally Rose | Aug 6, 2017 | Chile, Expat, Teaching, Traditions, Travel
Last week, one of my Chilean acquaintances posted on Facebook. She has a six-month old baby and she is a nursing mom. In her post, she said that she went to the fería, the farmer’s market, and an elderly man approached her and begged her for some breast milk....
by Sally Rose | Aug 28, 2016 | #friendship, Chile, Expat, Family, Teaching
This week, my “Chilean daughter” turned 21. It seems like only yesterday that I walked into her 8th grade classroom for the first time, but that was back in 2009. Francisca would have been 14 then. A quiet teenager, she came to the front of the classroom...
