Posted by Carly Lyddiard on Aug 23rd, 2009
I indulge in two types of creative activity aside from designing solutions to software problems
: music – I play the mandolin and violin and sing a little; and I sketch. Both music and sketching are for my own amusement and I have no intention of that ever being otherwise (so before you tell me I’m crap, lol@you – I knew that already!). (continued)
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Posted by Carly Lyddiard on May 30th, 2008
Sunday the 25th May was Chile’s National Day of Patrimony, where all (or most) of the national monuments are open to the public. There are so many national monuments here – in my first week in Santiago I recall a tourguide on a bus boredly repeating every 2 minutes “That is the blah building. Its [...]
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Posted by Carly Lyddiard on May 29th, 2008
Pomaire is a village about an hour and a half bus ride from Santiago (more or less – it depends on whether you take a direct bus or one that wanders around a bit first). It is famous for its pottery – both the clay from which it is made as well as the skill [...]
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Posted by Carly Lyddiard on May 12th, 2008
Hola chicos y chicas. Well this week I am not taking Spanish classes, so I am left to my own devices and able to wander the streets of Santiago terrorising innocent people with my terrible Spanish. Muahahahah! Last week my German friends from my first week of classes left – Burkhard went home, Beatrize started [...]
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Posted by Carly Lyddiard on Apr 23rd, 2008
On the first afternoon I arrived in Chile, while my cousin Dane and I were walking the dog, we passed two young men putting up a sign in Spanish. I tried to read it – “The freedom to decide. Protest against the dictatorship of the Constitutional Tribunal”. Dane started telling me about how common protests [...]
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