El volantine!

Kite flying is a big tradition for Fiestas Patrias (independence day) in Chile. They are small, square 15inx15in.tissue paper kites. And everyone flies them. They have kite-fighting competitions. If a kite´s string breaks it is race to see who can catch it first. The kite is fair game when that happens. Everyone comes running to try and catch is as it falls back to the ground. I don´t think I will ever really understand this tradition.

Fiestas Patrias,

September 27th 2007
In my classes we are reviewing and practicing past tense verbs. For an exercise I had them talk about what they did for Fiestas Patrias. This is how it went: ¨ I ate empanadas, I drank vino, I ate more empanadas, I drank chicha (a local sweet wine/alcohol), ate lots and lots of bbq meat, slept, ate anticucho (a kaboob with meat and veggies), drank more, etc...¨ You get the picture. And that i ... read more

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Prior to the coming of the Spanish in the 16th century, northern Chile was under Inca rule while Araucanian Indians inhabited central and southern Chile; the latter were not completely subjugated until the early 1880s. Although Chile declared its ind... ... read more

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