My mother's classroom in St. Joseph's elementary school had Langston Hughes' poem "Motto" hanging from the wall; it was the first poem I memorized and the words have stayed with me.
I have been in Chile for around two and a half months now, and after cancelling classes for two bomb threats, being surrounded by student revolts and transportation strikes, and bombarded with a culture still perpetuating and recovering from a tumultuous and horrific history, I get along here by following Hughes' motto: play it cool, dig all jive, and as I live and learn, try to dig and be dug in return.
With this first post, salud! to Chile, writing, and getting lost....only in order to find ourselves again.
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