The majority of my time here has been spent volunteering in the shany-towns round here. The next few entries will be about that... VILLA LA CRUZ On saturday mornings I go up to VIlla la Cruz, a campamento an hour or so´s micro ride away. ´Campamento´is a squatter´s shanty-town, a campment, a collection of about 1.000 people living in tin, wood, plastic, cardboard, or old-political-billboard shacks on the outskirts of Viña and Valparaiso. Villa la Cruz is up in ´Reñaca Alto,´ which is a politely-termed euphemism: Reñaca is the swank, rich summer beach resort of the Chilean wealthy. The ´alto´of Reñaca Alto is several planets away from that. Where I teach is at the very end of the settlements - after that it´s pure open country-side. The view is spectacular: behind the green hills are mountains,
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