{"id":926,"date":"2014-11-02T02:32:02","date_gmt":"2014-11-02T02:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/?p=926"},"modified":"2015-02-09T21:41:18","modified_gmt":"2015-02-09T21:41:18","slug":"en-resumen-ida-de-chile-vuelta-a-ups-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/2014\/11\/02\/en-resumen-ida-de-chile-vuelta-a-ups-2\/","title":{"rendered":"En resumen: Ida de Chile, vuelta a UPS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>* En castellano abajo<\/p>\n<p>A lot has happened since I left Chile early that Tuesday morning after unintentionally\/intentionally missing my flight back to the United States two days before. Prior to this, I had innocently woken up on Sunday morning thinking that day would be my last when my sister Monica texted me: &#8220;ANDY, WHERE ARE YOU??? Tita is waiting for you at LAX!!!.&#8221; In all my time flying across the Pacific ocean, I had never missed a flight before. I had been telling people that I was leaving on &#8220;August 10th&#8221; since the beginning of the semester when in reality it was the evening of August 9th. It seems like I had dreaded coming back so much that my eyes were blinded at the moment I checked the ticket for my time of departure. I didn&#8217;t have my things packed until the day before, hours before my new flight. My friend had to call in an airport shuttle for me only a few hours earlier. I allowed myself to be irresponsible because I would do anything to stay. Santiago de Chile was my home for a year. A return to gringolandia seemed like an ominous future of gray skies for eternity&#8230;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_911\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/files\/2014\/11\/IMG_6784.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-911\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-911\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/files\/2014\/11\/IMG_6784-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"View of Santiago from San Cristobal Hill \/ Vista de Santiago desde Cerro San Crist\u00f3bal \" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/files\/2014\/11\/IMG_6784-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/files\/2014\/11\/IMG_6784-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/files\/2014\/11\/IMG_6784-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-911\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">View of Santiago from San Cristobal Hill \/ Vista de Santiago desde el Cerro San Crist\u00f3bal<\/p><\/div>\n<p>But, I&#8217;ve been quite happy here so far. I always say &#8220;so far&#8221; like I&#8217;m doomed to reverse culture shock and homesickness, however that&#8217;s something I experience regularly in more intense and milder forms having lived in 4 countries until now (the perks of being a third culture kid!)\u00a0Being back,\u00a0I&#8217;m seeing UPS and Tacoma with fresh eyes. Some parts of campus were renovated. I had forgotten the names of buildings and Tacoma streets (and am still learning).\u00a0\u00a0I heard that school year 2013-14 was an exciting year with a lot of race talk happening, including the new diversity curriculum requirement (!!!). Kudos to the faculty, students, and staff who initiated it. This year&#8217;s freshman class is supposed to be the most ethnically diverse in this school&#8217;s history. UPS strives to be better.<\/p>\n<p>After a year of traveling,\u00a0<em>carrete<\/em>, adventuring, making mistakes, learning lessons (but also some serious academic work, of course!) my body wanted me to settle down for just a little while.\u00a0I have amazing professors this semester, all of whom are (or are partially) of color (!!!). I&#8217;m taking classes interesting classes: Central American Literature, Race &amp; Multiculturalism in the US context, The Business of Alleviating Poverty, and International Marketing. I also took an Intro to Hiking\/ Camping class for which I get activity credit. \u00a0I&#8217;m getting involved in immigration justice efforts, a cause that I care deeply about and that hits close to home. Because of all this I&#8217;m also more motivated than I&#8217;ve ever been in my time here.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve realized again that the core of UPS is truly our professors. When I find those connections with professors like I have this semester, I realize why I decided to go to school here and why I have decided to stay . Taking the right classes, it can be a personal education. A &#8220;liberal arts education.&#8221; This is where I&#8217;ve learned to think critically and make sense of how I move, and the space I occupy in this crazy microcosm of a world.<\/p>\n<p>There are little things I do to cope with homesickness. I have a latina friend on staff who I get coffee with sometimes. Two of my floor mates are exchange students from the University of Passau in Germany. One of them is half Spanish, and it&#8217;s so great to have someone I can regularly speak Spanish with. I live in a supportive environment with an awesome group of girls and a boy in the &#8220;Michel Rocchi International District&#8221;, an academic-residential floor housed in Commencement Hall that engages students in international issues and activities when they return from\/leave for study abroad. Through these things, I&#8217;ve found some sense of a &#8220;transnational&#8221; community.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_912\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/files\/2014\/11\/IMG_7473.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-912\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-912\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/files\/2014\/11\/IMG_7473-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Fireworks at Log Jam\/ Un show de fuegos artificiales durante 'Log Jam' (un evento de presentaci\u00f3n de las actividades y grupos estudiantiles de la universidad).\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/files\/2014\/11\/IMG_7473-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/files\/2014\/11\/IMG_7473-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/files\/2014\/11\/IMG_7473-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-912\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fireworks at Log Jam\/ Un show de fuegos artificiales durante &#8216;Log Jam&#8217; (un evento de presentaci\u00f3n de las actividades y grupos estudiantiles de la universidad).<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_913\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/files\/2014\/11\/IMG_7507.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-913\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-913\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/files\/2014\/11\/IMG_7507-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Pike's Place Market with my flatmates\/ El mercado 'Pike's Place' de Seattle con mis compa\u00f1eras de piso\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/files\/2014\/11\/IMG_7507-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/files\/2014\/11\/IMG_7507-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/files\/2014\/11\/IMG_7507-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-913\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pike&#8217;s Place Market with my flatmates\/ El mercado &#8216;Pike&#8217;s Place&#8217; de Seattle con mis compa\u00f1eras de piso<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This past fall break I finally got the chance to Skype with some of my best friends I met in Chile. We talked about how returning to our home countries, we aren&#8217;t the same people who left. \u00a0I&#8217;m not the same person I was as a sophomore here a year ago. Chile changed me in so many ways that I still continue to realize. \u00a0I became more myself in my time there, and the whole experience solidified my social identity, my way of life and way of being. It reinforced the affinity I have with Latin American cultures, which because of similarities with Filipino culture just feels like home to me.\u00a0I made the most amazing friends from Bolivia, Brazil, Taiwan, Germany, Peru, Mexico, Italy, France, El Salvador, Japan, Costa Rica, Colombia, Sweden, and from the Midwest\/East Coast of the United States and local Chilean friends. My friend Isabella and I have already talked about having our future children do an interchange, my kid to Brazil and her kid to the Philippines. At some point when I move back to South America the plan is to to crash at her place in Sao Paolo for a month to learn Portuguese. I&#8217;m young, the future looks bright, and I will be graduating next May&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I could write about all of this forever, which is why it&#8217;s so great that I now have a platform where I can do so!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>En Castellano:<\/p>\n<p>Mucho ha pasado despu\u00e9s de ese martes por la ma\u00f1ana cuando sal\u00ed de Chile, tras haber perdido mi vuelo de vuelta a Estados Unidos a prop\u00f3sito\/ sin querer, dos d\u00edas antes. Anteriormente, hab\u00eda despertado inocentemente el domingo por la ma\u00f1ana pensando que iba a ser mi \u00faltimo d\u00eda cuando de repente mi hermana me manda un mensaje. &#8220;\u00bfANDY, D\u00d3NDE EST\u00c1S??? TITA ESTA ESPERANDOTE EN LAX (aeropuerto de Los \u00c1ngeles)!!! En todo el tiempo que he pasado volando a trav\u00e9s de los oc\u00e9anos pac\u00edfico y atl\u00e1ntico, nunca he perdido un vuelo. Desde el principio, cuando me preguntaban sobre la fecha de mi salida dec\u00eda el 10 de agosto, cuando en realidad era el d\u00eda 9. Parece que tem\u00eda tanto volver que me qued\u00e9 ciega al momento de ver la hora del despegue en mi ticket. No hice las maletas hasta el d\u00eda antes previamente al vuelo nuevo. Mi amigo ten\u00eda que llamar al Transvip unas horas antes. Me permit\u00eda ser irresponsable porque har\u00eda cualquier cosa para quedarme. Santiago de Chile era mi casa por un a\u00f1o. Volver a gringolandia me pareci\u00f3 un futuro ominoso de cielos grises, para una eternidad&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Pero sinceramente, he estado bastante contenta hasta ahora. Siempre digo &#8220;hasta ahora&#8221; como si fuera condenada a una existencia de choque cultural inverso y nostalgia, pero ya estoy acostumbrada de pasar esto en formas m\u00e1s fuertes y apacibles despu\u00e9s de haber vivido en cuatro pa\u00edses hasta ahora. Ya que estoy ac\u00e1, veo a mi universidad y a Tacoma con una perspectiva distinta. Se renovaron al campus. Se me hab\u00eda olvidado los nombres de los edificios y las calles de la ciudad (sigo despistada, pero aprendiendo!) Hab\u00eda escuchado que el a\u00f1o escolar 2013-14 fue un a\u00f1o muy interesante en mi universidad, con mucho ruido del tema de la &#8216;raza&#8217; y incluso un nuevo requisito del curr\u00edculum de diversidad (como tenemos una facultad y alumnado poca diversa en comparaci\u00f3n con otras partes del pa\u00eds como California por ejemplo y no refleja la diversidad \u00e9tnica\u00a0que queda afuera de nuestra &#8220;burbuja&#8221;, realmente es un gran problema)\u00a0. El grupo de novatos de este a\u00f1o es supuestamente el m\u00e1s diverso en toda la historia de la universidad. La Universidad de Puget Sound se esfuerza por mejorar.<\/p>\n<p>Despu\u00e9s de un a\u00f1o de viaje, de carrete, de aventuras, de cometer errores y de aprender de ellos (<span style=\"color: #545454\">\u00a1<\/span>pero igual un serio estudio acad\u00e9mico en la PUC!) mi cuerpo quer\u00eda quedarse quieto por un momento y estudiar realmente en serio.\u00a0Tengo profesores incre\u00edbles. Fue todo un milagro y tal vez una muestra de progreso, que al volver todos mis profesores este semestre son extranjeros y de distintas etnias. Estoy tomando clases fascinantes: Literatura centroamericana, Raza y multi-culturalismo en el contexto de Estados Unidos, El negocio de aliviar a la pobreza, y Marketing internacional. Tambi\u00e9n tom\u00e9 un curso de camping \/ trekking, por lo que me dan cr\u00e9dito de educaci\u00f3n f\u00edsica. Estoy involucrada en esfuerzos de justicia para los inmigrantes, que es una causa que me importa profundamente y que personalmente me ha afectado la vida. Por lo tanto, estoy m\u00e1s motivada que nunca.<\/p>\n<p>Me he dado cuenta de nuevo que el coraz\u00f3n de esta universidad, lo que lo distingue de otras universidades, son los profesores. Cuando encuentro a esas conexiones y relaciones como ha pasado este semestre, entiendo por qu\u00e9 decid\u00ed asistir a esta universidad y por qu\u00e9 decid\u00ed en quedarme. Con las clases buenas, puede ser una educaci\u00f3n personalizada. Una educaci\u00f3n de &#8220;artes liberales.&#8221; Una que me ha hecho pensar cr\u00edticamente y dar sentido a como muevo, y el espacio que ocupo en este microcosmo loco del mundo en que vivimos.<\/p>\n<p>Hay unas cositas que hago para aguantar a la nostalgia. Tengo una amiga abuela latina, charlamos y tomamos caf\u00e9 juntas (Cuando me conoci\u00f3 ella pens\u00f3 que soy chilena!). Dos de mis compa\u00f1eras de piso son de la Universidad de Passau en Alemania. Una de ellas es media espa\u00f1ola as\u00ed que es genial poder conversar en espa\u00f1ol. Vivo en un ambiente acogedor con un grupo de chicas muy simp\u00e1ticas (y un chico) en el &#8220;Michel Rocchi International District&#8221;, una residencia-academica ubicada en Commencement Hall, que nos hace participar en cuestiones internacionales y actividades antes de que los alumnos se van\/ cuando se vuelvan de estudiar al extranjero.<\/p>\n<p>Durante el fin de semana largo por fin tuve la oportunidad de hablar por Skype con unos de mis mejores amigos que conoc\u00ed en Chile. Conversamos de como al volver a nuestros pa\u00edses, no somos las mismas personas que salieron. No soy la misma persona que yo era hace un a\u00f1o en esta universidad. Chile me ha cambiado en maneras tan distintas y de que sigo dando cuenta durante mi tiempo en Estados Unidos. (<span style=\"color: #545454\">\u00a1D<\/span>\u00e9jame ser un poco cursi!..), mi tiempo all\u00e1 me hizo sentirme m\u00e1s &#8216;yo&#8217; que antes, y la experiencia en total se solidific\u00f3 mi entendimiento de mi manera de vivir y de ser. Reforz\u00f3 la afinidad que tengo con las culturas latinoamericanas, que me siento en casa por las semejanzas que tiene con la cultura filipina. Hice los amigos m\u00e1s incre\u00edbles de Bolivia, Brazil, Alemania, Taiwan, Per\u00fa, M\u00e9xico, Italia, Francia, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Jap\u00f3n, Colombia, Sweden, del medio-oeste y costa del este de Estados Unidos, y mis amigos chilenos. Mi amiga Isabella y yo hemos hablado de que cuando tengamos hijos haremos con ellos un intercambio Brazil-Filipinas. Tengo el plan de quedarme en su casa en Sao Paolo por un tiempo y aprender portugu\u00e9s en unos a\u00f1os. Soy joven, el futuro me parece brillante, y ya voy a graduarme en Mayo.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #545454\">\u00a1<\/span>Podr\u00eda escribir sobre este tema sin parar, por eso que es tan genial que ya tengo una plataforma para compartir mis experiencias! (y que la U me pague a la vez\u2026)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* En castellano abajo A lot has happened since I left Chile early that Tuesday morning after unintentionally\/intentionally missing my flight back to the United States two days before. Prior to this, I had innocently woken up on Sunday morning &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/2014\/11\/02\/en-resumen-ida-de-chile-vuelta-a-ups-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":452,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/452"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=926"}],"version-history":[{"count":46,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1508,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926\/revisions\/1508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}