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Bouncing Balls. Since his student days in his native Chile, Castro-Cid's art has thrived on unpredictable influences. While he lived in tropical Central America he painted in hot Fauve colors: "Nature made me get out of myself," he says, "it opened my pores." In Mexico City, he wandered into the anthropological museum. "Suddenly I had pre-Columbian memories that, of course, were impossible for me to have." A series of Fauve paintings of Quetzalcoatl, the brightly plumed serpent god, was the result...
...CHILE Volunteers and Chilean Specialists will work in teams under the newly formed Ministry of Urban Affairs in provincial cities throughout the country. Team members will serve as trainers and advisors to local governmental officers in all aspects of public and municipal administration...
...CHILE Volunteer nurses will teach formally and on the wards, at hospitals in Valdivia and Tesmuca. Lab technicians will train co-workers in their field hospitals in Valdivia and Antofagesta. Community health educators will work in Valdivia and Temuco and in rural areas doing community development. Hospital administrators will train Chileans to administer new hosptials being built Therapists will teach the clinical practice segment of the OT school at the Rehabilitation Center of the Health Service...
...CHILE Volunteers will work with specific fishing co-ops along the Chilean coast in their area of specialty. Home economists will work with fishermen's wives in nutrition, general extension and community development work, complementing the work of the men in the program...
Volunteers whose assignments overseas call for strenuous physical conditioning are given additional training for outdoor living which may include hiking, rock-climbing, swimming and map reading. Proficiency in these activities, however, is not required. While such training was recommended for future community development workers in the mountains of Chile, for example, it would not necessarily be required for someone planning to teach English in an urban setting...