Anthropologist by undergraduate degree, journalist by hobby, photographer by nomadic tendencies and English teacher because she loves phonemes (geek! geek!), Lisa is passing through many a country in search of story ideas, local wine, dangerous bus rides...and maybe love?
For two years in Spain, she worked as a translator and teacher, sharpening her research skills for never-published articles, humbly discovering that when you interview the Imam from the local mosque, you don't attempt to shake his hand.
She's now back in Canada after living in Buenos Aires, where she completed her Cambridge-CELTA. Thinking about her volunteer work, she finds herself often thinking about Ciudad Oculta, where she was drilling multiplication tables and colouring pictures of penguins.
She is currently working on an article about the exoticism of poverty and the ugly side of social tourism. She is not being paid for this either. A generous tax refund is helping her along nicely.
She likes to do many things at once, and yet, is inherently lazy. Why was she in Buenos Aires? Well, inner-reflection and constant loneliness seemed, quite frankly, easier than working a regular job. But sometimes she felt homesick: only in Vancouver do you bump into someone on the street and *they* apologize to *you*.
She hated it when foreigners living in B.A. 'dissed her barrio of San Telmo: there is no such thing as an authentic Argentina!! she wanted to shout. There were never any anthropologists to hear her and understand.
She is not afraid to say that Buenos Aires is sometimes a difficult place to make friends. But the ones she has made are very sweet and she has wonderful memories of maté and poetry.
Plans include: making a fortune teaching English in Dubai, learning how to prepare the perfect tagine, and falling in love with a South American- after taking a look at housing prices in Canada, her future home will be wherever they sell empanadas on the street. She is currently working and preparing picnics in Vancouver, her hometown. Current obsession: her Olympus 410 and photo-editing, and eating Nutella on toast while reading up on Che Guevara and other revolutionaries. She is deciding whether or not to adopt the black beret. She now appreciates a simple yerba mate with friends.
Contact her at:
lisapamela@gmail.com
She currently sleeps in Vancouver,
drinks tea on Main street,
and wonders about the this whole blogging thing. Her article about tourism is still unfinished.
She has a personal website she is working on.
www.petiteguerriere.blogspot.com
It is refreshingly absent of self-referrals in the third person.
Her resume is here.
