Comments on: Cold Weather http://fellowsblog.kiva.org/2008/03/14/cold-weather-2/ Kiva Fellows share their experiences from the field Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:13:14 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Maren http://fellowsblog.kiva.org/2008/03/14/cold-weather-2/#comment-1220 Maren Wed, 16 Apr 2008 23:52:42 +0000 http://fellowsblog.kiva.org/2008/03/14/cold-weather-2/#comment-1220 Teo, thank you for sharing your memories from the Iron Range and Chile. A good warning message and encouragement to keep fighting for awareness. Nicole, I'd love to answer your questions, but there is no contact info included in your post, I'm sorry I haven't been able to write! You can email me at maren@kiva.org. Hope it's not too late! Good luck! Teo, thank you for sharing your memories from the Iron Range and Chile. A good warning message and encouragement to keep fighting for awareness.
Nicole, I’d love to answer your questions, but there is no contact info included in your post, I’m sorry I haven’t been able to write! You can email me at maren@kiva.org. Hope it’s not too late! Good luck!

]]> By: Teo http://fellowsblog.kiva.org/2008/03/14/cold-weather-2/#comment-1187 Teo Tue, 08 Apr 2008 04:37:52 +0000 http://fellowsblog.kiva.org/2008/03/14/cold-weather-2/#comment-1187 I suffered -48ºF once in Mountain Iron, Minnesota in Winter 1974-75. I lived way up on the Iron Range, in a small beautiful town called Mountain Iron, close to Virginia. I arrived there as an exchange student trough a wonderful organization called AFS from the South of Chile where I was raised. Your intercultural memories remind me also of an experience I didn't share with may mates then, but I want to share it with you now. We had this very demanding American Literature teacher, who read with us "Grapes of Wrath " of John Steinbeck. It is a vivid description of the Great Depression of years 1929-32. What no one of the class could imagine, was the fact that many of the facts, tools, home appliances, stoves, 1929 cars, were actually part of my daily life in Chile. The only car my dad could afford to buy then was a 1929 Ford, it means, our home car was more than 40 years outdated in 1974. For my mates, they were reading "Grapes of Wrath" as literature. For me such book was a just a recall of my daily life, that had just a break for a year while taking my Senior Year in Minnesota. A warning message to do not forget my origins. Today, I am 50 (2008) and keep fighting to raise the cultural, social and economical gap of people born at the same time in mankind, but some still live on their own Great Depresion. A lot of success to narrow such gap, dear friend. I suffered -48ºF once in Mountain Iron, Minnesota in Winter 1974-75. I lived way up on the Iron Range, in a small beautiful town called Mountain Iron, close to Virginia. I arrived there as an exchange student trough a wonderful organization called AFS from the South of Chile where I was raised.

Your intercultural memories remind me also of an experience I didn’t share with may mates then, but I want to share it with you now. We had this very demanding American Literature teacher, who read with us “Grapes of Wrath ” of John Steinbeck. It is a vivid description of the Great Depression of years 1929-32. What no one of the class could imagine, was the fact that many of the facts, tools, home appliances, stoves, 1929 cars, were actually part of my daily life in Chile. The only car my dad could afford to buy then was a 1929 Ford, it means, our home car was more than 40 years outdated in 1974. For my mates, they were reading “Grapes of Wrath” as literature. For me such book was a just a recall of my daily life, that had just a break for a year while taking my Senior Year in Minnesota. A warning message to do not forget my origins.

Today, I am 50 (2008) and keep fighting to raise the cultural, social and economical gap of people born at the same time in mankind, but some still live on their own Great Depresion.

A lot of success to narrow such gap, dear friend.

]]> By: Nicole http://fellowsblog.kiva.org/2008/03/14/cold-weather-2/#comment-1158 Nicole Sun, 30 Mar 2008 17:58:22 +0000 http://fellowsblog.kiva.org/2008/03/14/cold-weather-2/#comment-1158 Hi Maren, I have been reading your posts and keeping up with your travels. I'm interested in becoming a fellow this year in South America and I'm about to send in my application. I have a few questions for you about your travels, the people you've been working with and your overall feelings about being a fellow. Please shoot me an Email when you get a moment. Thanks, Nicole Hi Maren,
I have been reading your posts and keeping up with your travels. I’m interested in becoming a fellow this year in South America and I’m about to send in my application. I have a few questions for you about your travels, the people you’ve been working with and your overall feelings about being a fellow. Please shoot me an Email when you get a moment.

Thanks,
Nicole

]]> By: drew http://fellowsblog.kiva.org/2008/03/14/cold-weather-2/#comment-1066 drew Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:48:39 +0000 http://fellowsblog.kiva.org/2008/03/14/cold-weather-2/#comment-1066 Great post Maren, but I wouldn't be too tough on yourself. Joking about the weather is universal. Humor helps us deal with it. I'm sure you were sensitive in your joking and I suspect the people who were curious about Minnesota in wintertime found comfort learning there is a harsher climate than their location high in the Andes or in the mountains of Guatemala. We all need to believe there is worse weather than ours. I know this because I live in Buffalo NY, where no one wants to be in the winter. Keep up the good work and great reporting. Great post Maren, but I wouldn’t be too tough on yourself.
Joking about the weather is universal. Humor helps us deal with it.
I’m sure you were sensitive in your joking and I suspect the people who were curious about Minnesota in wintertime found comfort learning there is a harsher climate than their location high in the Andes or in the mountains of Guatemala.
We all need to believe there is worse weather than ours.
I know this because I live in Buffalo NY, where no one wants to be in the winter.
Keep up the good work and great reporting.

]]> By: Galena Alyson Canada http://fellowsblog.kiva.org/2008/03/14/cold-weather-2/#comment-1061 Galena Alyson Canada Sat, 15 Mar 2008 18:04:30 +0000 http://fellowsblog.kiva.org/2008/03/14/cold-weather-2/#comment-1061 Oh, and another way to find me: The travelogues blog is at http://thetwogringas.blogspot.com and my personal blog is at http://galenaalysoncanada.blogspot.com I hope to hear from you soon! 'Lena Oh, and another way to find me:

The travelogues blog is at http://thetwogringas.blogspot.com

and my personal blog is at http://galenaalysoncanada.blogspot.com

I hope to hear from you soon!

‘Lena

]]> By: Galena Alyson Canada http://fellowsblog.kiva.org/2008/03/14/cold-weather-2/#comment-1060 Galena Alyson Canada Sat, 15 Mar 2008 18:00:02 +0000 http://fellowsblog.kiva.org/2008/03/14/cold-weather-2/#comment-1060 Maren, I have just invested in two more FriendshipBridge loans, the descriptions of which can only be your prose! I will soon be quite near to you. Where will you be the last week of March? Please email me: themisslena at gmail punto com Great to read you again! 'Lena Maren, I have just invested in two more FriendshipBridge loans, the descriptions of which can only be your prose!

I will soon be quite near to you. Where will you be the last week of March?

Please email me: themisslena at gmail punto com

Great to read you again!

‘Lena

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