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Elizabeth Potter

Student Blogger

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This spring, I leave a state sewn together by cornfields and my home university, Nebraska Wesleyan University, in Lincoln, Nebraska to make a new home at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso in Chile, a country with a spine spun from the Andes. As an English major with a passion for poems, Chile calls to me because of its rich tradition of authors who invent worlds that live between folktale and fact just as Chile, the 'Land of the Poets,' survives between the Andes and the sea, the Atacama and Antarctica. Through this blog, I hope to capture these contrasts.

Contributions

blog How to Be a Tourist Without Being a “Tourist”
blog Packing Tips for your Backpacking Trip One of the best opportunities to take advantage of while abroad is getting to know the natural assets of your host country but, wherever you go, there are several supplies you can’t forget.
blog Study Abroad Advice from the Art in Valparaíso, Chile Somehow in the whirlwind of the week that was my first in Valparaíso Chile, the famous “We are not Hippies, We are Happies” mural was whitewashed away. If that had been the most difficult discovery of my first few weeks abroad, I would have had fewer scars but fewer stories.
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