I’m an English teacher and film student in Uruguay.
During quarantine, we have been separate but part of the global phenomenon — epidemic in pandemic, like every country.
Perhaps what makes Uruguay different is its preciseness. Its specificity. If you read an English-language publication about COVID-19 in Uruguay, it’s probably — unlike Japan, or Spain, or the US — the only one you find.
So here’s your second story on Uruguay — a human one: While giving a remote English lesson to my students, I witnessed my first couples’ fight through Zoom.
What a strange intimacy to be jerked into — you’re not even there. You don’t even know them, really. You’re like, the English teacher on the screen.
What happened
Now, I was contracted to give English lessons to members of a coding company in Montevideo (the capital of Uruguay. You knew that, right?).
When they gave me the name of the company, I thought that someone had to be mistaken; its headquarters were in Kansas…
