With the end of the semester comes the official end of my
internship. In case you may have wondered what I’ve been doing other than
running around the country and going out every night, I also wrote for an
online magazine geared towards gringo ex-pats in Santiago.
While there’s a lot to do in this city, it’s hard to really
find the good stuff unless you’re from here or hang out with the locals, who
you would be unlikely to meet without knowing about these places anyway. Enter Revista
Revolver. Writers (all volunteers) create articles about local things, from
music and theater to food to general culture in order to help foreigners break
out of the gringo bubble. I was fortunate enough to get credit for writing for
them, while most others in my program were stuck in offices, usually just doing
their homework.
Here are my final products thus far (I’m hoping to keep
writing for them if I can find something that’s possible to do from afar):
In the end, I should have gotten more articles out, but at
least this is a start in a field I never would have expected to try. It’s a fun
way to explore a new place and to think about the differences of the culture
that you’re living in. Hopefully I’ll be able to keep doing something like this
in the coming years.
For now, enjoy (or laugh at) even more of my writing!
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