Quiz night

A couple of weeks ago my church held a quiz night for me. Now you can share in our fun. Some of the answers might be wrong (especially 5 & 14). Please let me know if you know!

1. Which country was Chile conquered by?
2.  In what century was Chile conquered?
3. Which Australia capital city is on the same latitude as Santiago?
4. What do you have to do when you meet a group of people?
5. What percentage of students are the first in their family to attend university?
6. What does 'middle class' in Chile equate to in Australia?
7. What products are not available in Chile?
8. What form of government does Chile have?
9. What is Chile's most important export?
10. How many years have passed since the dictator Augusto Pinochet lost power?
11. What proportion of Chileans are Catholic?
12. Of those, what proportion attend mass regularly?
13. What proportion of children are born outside of marriage?
14. If you were on your way to meeting someone and bumped into someone you knew, what would you do?
15. How many years has Fiona's new church, Cristo Redentor, been around for?

  

 Answers:   1. The Spanish 2. In the 16th century 3. Sydney 4. Greet each person individually and kiss them on one cheek. 5. 70% 6. Working class 7. Fresh milk and good milk chocolate 8. Republic 9. Copper 10. 20 11. Over 60% 12. Over 10% 13. 60% 14. Chat to them for as long as it takes, not worrying that you may be an hour or two late for your previous appointment. 15. 1 1/2

Stickers and soap

Here are some gifts for kids (lots of stickers!) and grown-ups in Chile. There'll also be some Tassie fudge and three photo frames made from beautiful Tasmanian wood. The kangaroo and echidna are for little Samuel and Pablo, the children of the couple I'll be living with.

Words and webs

Moving overseas there's a few things I'm not looking forward to - feeling like an idiot when everyone laughs at a joke you don't get, feeling like an idiot when you can't say what's on your mind, feeling like an idiot when you don't know how to buy a train ticket or where to dry your clothes... you get the idea. Then there's the heartbreak of leaving behind all the people you love, and the disappointment of being unable to be productive. And there are a couple more things on my mind...

I love the English language, love choosing a word only narrowly different to another and answering peoples' questions exactly. And I'm afraid that the loss of these things will be traumatic for me, and will make me feel I have lost my creativity.

I also worry that I'm going to miss the web of relationships here in Hobart. The other day I joined 3000 people at the opening night of MONA FOMA. I'm pretty sure a lot of them had flown down from Melbourne (a bit too funky-beautiful to be from here), but I still saw eight or so people I know. And as I walk down the street, I'll always bump into friends and friends-of-friends and see people I don't exactly know but could still tell you something about. And when two strangers meet, it's pretty rare not to discover a friend in common. All this makes me feel deeply connected and at home. It won't be like that in a city of eight million.

So much for the yucky stuff, but, boy, is there going to be a lot of good!

Chile is good for you

Here's an awesome video of Chile! Now everyone will visit me!