We are sitting in one of the empty classrooms on the second floor of the university's largest academic building. The professor, who goes by Paulina, smiles at me across the desk as she tries to answer my questions in Spanish as clearly as possible. In a few minutes, people will start filtering in for her next class, but Chilean students are notoriously late, so we have a bit more time as she rephrases her last response, choosing words I'm more likely to recognize. Then the first students begin to wander into the classroom, so I thank Paulina for her time and hurry off to my next class.
The interview was conducted entirely in Spanish, so I have translated Paulina's answers into English, with clarifying notes in [brackets].
"Paulina" has asked that I not use her full name.
I live in an apartment building in Providencia [a central region of the city]. My apartment is on the fourth floor. The building has a patio with a pool behind it and a parking garage underneath it, and my apartment has a small balcony.
