It’s been a week since we left Santiago, and I’ve felt many different emotions. You would assume a week is enough time to process one’s feelings and return to everyday life, but it is not. I’m feeling blessed, joyful, sad, and overwhelmed, all conflicting emotions to bundle together. I remember writing in my first blog…Continue Reading Agradecida
We started off the final week in Chile with a workshop looking at interculturality and creating our own diagrams on what different aspects make up interculturality. It was a good activity to help collate all the skills and topics that we’ve learned throughout the programme. After this workshop, I went on a trip to a…Continue Reading PMSLA: A Series of Life-Changing Experiences in Chile
We have now been home for just under a week. It has been a chance to catch up with family and friends, swim in the awa, and return to the garden. It has also been a chance to begin reflecting on what can only be described as a month of challenges, new learnings and memorable…Continue Reading Chile: Reflecting on a life-changing month
Kia ora! Although this is my final blog in the Prime Minister’s Scholarship schedule, nothing about writing this feels ‘final’. Over the past week back in my tūrangawaewae, I have missed the sites, atmosphere and experiences I had in Chile; however, I have the solace of knowing that more journeys in Latin America are on…Continue Reading Ka kite… ano.
Hola chicas y chicos! Last week was full of emotions as we finished our Intercultural Approaches to Public Health course at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Below are highlights from our final days. Highlights Friday: This morning, we had a seminar about ethnicity and healthcare in Chile from a Mapuche perspective. We had the most incredible…Continue Reading Intercultural Learnings: Remembrance and Resilience
I’ve experienced way too many ‘lasts’ these past couple of weeks: last classes, last visits to my favorite neighborhood, last salsa clubs, last meals of al pastor tacos, and last memories with exchange students that I see as family. It has not been a walk in the park. Every goodbye is not easier than the…Continue Reading Not A Goodbye; But See You Later
It’s been a long week. Maybe the longest so far, but all for good reasons. As I try to make sense of the abundance of experiences, emotions, and relationalities that have been held within this week, the theme of negotiation is woven into many of them. The week started with lectures on Mapuche and Aymara…Continue Reading Negotiation and Reflection
“Mari Mari” means “Hello” in Mapuzungun, the Mapuche indigenous language This week has been a rollercoaster of unexpected emotions. I have cried and laughed in spaces I never imagined and connected with people I would have never met without this opportunity. This week has been a rollercoaster of unexpected emotions. I have cried and laughed in…Continue Reading ‘Mari Mari’
Our third week in Santiago, Chile, began with an amazing set of lectures on Indigenous worldviews and healthcare. These lectures gave us an important overview of the historical and current contexts of the different indigenous groups in Chile, mainly focusing on the two largest groups, the Mapuche and Aymara peoples. On Tuesday, we visited the Museum…Continue Reading Understanding, Education, and Worldviews
