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NYE lessons from Ecuador

  • 29 December 2019
Australian New Year’s Eve traditions mostly involve drinking hard, watching fireworks and calling it a party. This is…
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My biography, as told by my booze

  • 6 September 2016
A personal atlas of alcohol. Before you get the wrong impression, this post is not about booze-filled nights from my backpacking days. It's an anthology of anecdotes and memories, linked by a common theme: alcoholic beverages. My discovery of different drinks parallels some important memories. These are what I'd like to share with you. So let me take you from my childhood, all around the world and back home again. In this brief autobiography, I'll let the alcohol do the talking.
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How South America messed me up good

  • 12 January 2016
People always ask me about my time in South America. Some are genuinely interested, while for others it's the polite and logical thing to ask. In either case, the truth is that these conversations have started to get a bit repetitive and I'm often left wishing I could say more than: that Latinos are warmer; that Andean dishes contain too many carbs; that working with survivors of child sexual abuse was hard as you'd imagine but so rewarding; that I'm not sure how to answer your question about how good my Spanish is. The worst thing is that I can't seem to do Bolivia and Ecuador justice - not in a brief conversation that could turn to a different topic at any given moment. So below are a few noteworthy things I don't generally get to share about the impact that my time in South America has had on me as a person and who I am now.