Please send your recommendations for various goods and services you have discovered in and around Santiago, so that others can benefit from your 'find'. These include restaurants, cafes, medical services and personnel, shops, tradespeople, taxi drivers, to name a few.

The recommendation MUST be made by a member and your name MUST appear at the end of the recommendation. Your contact details will not be given, as, if members wish to find out more from you, they can contact you via the 'member contact list'.

Help us to help all our members by sharing your favourite 'finds'.

Megan Szymanski
Website Apprentice

Quilting Classes
As many of you know, in my free time I am an avid quilter. I think some of you may be future addicts too.

I am going to teach a beginners quilting class on Friday mornings in my home starting in September. The class is 8-10 weeks. The format is that each student makes their own crib size or lap size Sampler quilt. Each week we learn a new block which teaches a new technique. No previous experience is needed. You do not even need to know how to sew. If you can thread a needle and use scissors, you have the basic skills required. The class can be done by machine or by hand.

The cost of the class will be $50,000 plus your fabrics. It can be paid monthly in two cuotas of $25,000. All proceeds (probably 95% of the fee) will be donated to Taller Esperanza, a workshop for developmentally disabled adults. (By the way, some of the participants of the workshop are also learning simple patchwork - If they can do it, you can too!)

The class will be taught in English and probably Spanish too. Every time I have taught it, there have been some Chileans, so usually I teach in English with simultaneous Spanish translations, making it an interesting intercultural exchange.

Summary-
Start Date: Friday, September 5
Class Dates: Sept. 5, 12, 26, October 3, 10, 17, 24, 31 (skipping Sept 19)
Time: 10-12
Location: my house in Los Dominicos
Cost: $50,000 plus fabric

Please email me or call 08-827-1068 with questions or to sign up. Email: kathleenskog@yahoo.com

Thanks,
Kathleen Skog


Need Ski Gear for Growing Kids?
Second hand ski gear for kids and adults is available at OrangeBlue. This shop is located on Av Providencia 2453, between Los Leones and Holanda, in Providencia. Phone 6573147 or their website is www.orangeblue.cl. I bought a full overall (which looks new - except for the first owner's name written inside!) for my 6 year old for $13 000. They also sell lots of other great second hand gear.

Megan Szymanski (CAC member)
Posted June 08

Medical Resources
DoctorsList02062006[1]

Megan Szymanski
Posted: Jun 2008


SPANISH TEACHER
I have been having lessons with Nancy Garcia since I arrived in Santiago two years ago (Recommended by Tracey Corbishley). I have supplimented these with other teachers/lessons to get some variety of teaching styles, accents and content, but have continued with Nancy as she is a so friendly and informative, well prepared and punctual. Her contact details are: Ph 326 1072 Cell 9085 3475.

Megan Szymanski
Posted: Jan 2008


TEA HOUSE
Providenica

If you are craving a lovely pot of tea and scones with fresh whipped cream and jam then this is the place for you!! I went with a group of ladies one afternoon in January and it was wonderful!!

Le Flaubert is a restaurant and Salon de Te. It serves lunch and dinner too and is open Monday to Sunday

Paseo Orrego Luco 125 Providencia, Santiago
(take the Metro to Pedro de Valdivia and walk back along Av Providencia crossing Av Pedro de Valdivia and it is the next street on your left. The café is on your right about half way along.)

ph 231 9424
www.leflaubert.cl

Megan Szymanski
Posted: Jan 2008


HAIRDRESSER
Peluqueria V&V is a great hairdressing salon.
Ph. 2466757

Veronica was trained in the US and speaks great English (as does her daughter Veronica, who works with her), making it very easy for newcomers to get their hair cut and coloured well. I have been going to her for nearly two years, after she was recommended to me by Kirstine Smith and Wendy Watson (former CAC members), after a couple of very ordinary hair cuts!

Address: Centro Comercial Lo Castillo, Candelaria Goyenechea 3820, Local 158, Vitacura. (Cnr Av Vitacura and Candelaria Goyenechea. Centro Comercial Lo Castillo is the name of the building - it also has 'The Platinum CLub' in it - a men's club!, and most taxi driver's know it. When you get to the building. V&V is on the right hand side and down the side of the building, on the ground floor.)

Megan Szymanski
Posted: Jan 2008

Dried fruits and Organic Stuff
For those of you who live close to Providencia - or who like to travel down that part of town, I wanted to let you know about a great little shop I stumbled upon yesterday. Its called La Chakra and it is a vegetarian cafe/restaurant/shop and stocks natural beauty products and dried fruits (bananas, strawberries, tomatoes) and organic vegetables and fruit and teas. They even stock dates and (while out of stock yesterday!) the thick dark brown sugar a few of us have been looking for. They also have a cranberry juice concentrate - great for when it hurts to pee! I had a coffee and a muffin. Both were realy yummy.

They are located on Mariano Sanchez Fontecilla 534 Las Condes. This is near the corner of Tobalaba and Presidente Erraruriz and near the Stadio France. Website is www.lachakra.cl and the phone number is 234 2138. They will home deliver. They are open 7 days a week.

They stock products for diabetics, those with coeliac disease and vegans. Check the website.

Megan
Posted 16.6.08