Santiago's children : what I learned about life at an orphanage in Chile /
Unclear about his future career path, Steve Reifenberg found himself in the early 1980's working at a small orphanage in a poor neighborhood in Santiago, Chile, where a determined single woman was trying to create a stable home for a dozen or so children who had been abandoned or abused. With l...
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| Language: | English |
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Austin :
University of Texas Press,
2008.
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| ISBN: | 9780292794382 029279438X 0292717415 9780292717411 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Visions of a family farm
- The arrival
- Spanish lessons
- Olga and the Hogar
- Not as imagined
- Summer
- More Spanish and other lessons about Chile
- Politics
- The Pacific coast
- The end of summer
- A new school year
- Professional conversations
- On being a teacher
- Noisy and complicated
- The farm revisited
- Donors, demons, and dentists
- Marcelo
- An unexpected journey
- A home on Tupungato Street
- Catholics, Mormons, and evangelicals
- Boys, babies, and biters
- The University
- Winter in a new neighborhood
- Sebastián
- Explaining a few things
- You're going to do what?
- Groping in the dark
- God will see us through
- The end of the road
- The days of waiting
- The visit of the gringos
- Searching for something
- Taking leave.