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Etcetera, and Such
The last few months have been a bit crazy, which would be an excellent excuse to account for my lack of blogging, but the truth lies somewhere between inertia, laziness and malaise, though I’m only about 2/3 confident about the definitions of 2/3 of those words, so who really knows?
School is long over, though I haven’t the slightest idea how I fared, considering the generally disorganized nature of the University of Chile. I legitimately really enjoyed each of my classes in their own way, and learned a lot, but I find myself complaining about the dysfunctional nature of its administration and habits of its faculty more than lauding the classes, which is too bad, but it’s interesting that that’s really what stuck with me. I’ll do my best in the future to acknowledge the good with the bad the next time an anecdotal discussion of the comparative merits of Latin American public higher education comes up which, knowing the crowd I tend to run with, will probably be pretty soon.
Zarchy: First Month Part II
This basically describes my first month perfectly
For those few intrepid souls who made it to the end of the last post, I question your sanity as much as I value your readership, so thank you.
The last few days have been really interesting working for the Santiago Times, because they serve a really interesting niche. Their readership is mainly made up of government and business-people, and a lot of what we do is actually more of a news filter than an actual news-generating service. We do the odd interview, gather research and such, but a lot of the task before us simply lies in finding the news that would matter to English-speakers and re-presenting it to them.
This in general means a lot of reading the Spanish-language dailies, supplementing it with new research and facts, and a lot of translating to English. While I didn’t really have any idea what to expect, coming in, I’ve been able to tap into the news of the area, which is actually what I really wanted more than anything.
My first day, Monday, I went in for the staff meeting, which is pretty reminiscent of CHP’s meetings in Santa Cruz, though this is made up of the writers rather than editors, so it’s just us. We went over the main stories of the day that we deemed worth writing about, and each writer claimed one or two stories for their own for the day. I ended up with a blurb about promising trends in swine flu and, finishing that, I worked on a piece about the dollar’s downward slide with relation to the peso. Both of these were pretty interesting, in my econ/politics nerd sort of way, so it was quite fun.
The structure of the Santiago Times is pretty interesting, › Continue reading
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