FOREIGN TRAVEL, WEIRD FOOD
"I'm not a fan of lamb testes. Or testes of any sort."
-Sloanie over lunch at Vina Sta. Rita, outside of Santiago

LOOKING AT THE WORLD THROUGH LATIN AMERICAN EYES
"I can't remember what women wore before hip-huggers."
-Gautam at Avenue Sueca

DEFINITIONS CHANGE PER COUNTRY
"See, in the States, nylons are the things you wear to work. Stockings are the things you wear to play."
-a male Sloanie on the finer points of womens wear

ON SETTING UP FRIENDS
"Before I do, I need to know - are you single?"
"I'm single enough."

TEAM DYNAMICS
"I'm willing to accommodate my teammates' every need."
"Well, in that case..."
"Uhm, I take that back."
-Michelle and Chike over lunch

The only reason we don't want to be in South America right now with its great summer weather. PATS at the SUPERBOWL on Feb. 1 - it would have been amazing to see Boston go crazy when the Pats win.

Random quotes
... are we psychoanalyzing the Flintstones here?
... I've heard more Roxette in this country than I've heard in the past 10 years!

Random musings from Chile

..."you know what you call that? bait."...
...a street full of people at 4 am...
..."so what exactly do you mean by full service?"...
...giant plums on the sidewalk...
...a juggler in the middle of the street...
...best way to approach Chike - "are you from Brazil?"
...the meaning of cerveza negra
..."the club may be cheesy but the music's still good"
..."wow, i'm so glad to be here [meaning, not freezing Boston] right now"

QUOTES. We interrupt our self-imposed hiatus to post a number of interesting overheard conversations from Chile:

"Why does he get all the fucking attention?"
"Uhm, do we really have to answer that question?"
-Aaron and Michelle
After Marcus gets some young Chilean women calling after him on the street

"All you got to do is boom, boom, boom and it's done."
-Aaron again
We're letting you guess what context this was said in

But really, a picture is worth a thousand words. Here's a novel from our friends in Taipei.

Be it Taiwan or Iceland, you got to watch out for our man Tolu!