 | From Patios to Prost
2003-10-17, Cordoba, Argentina. By: chefortune | | Heading inland to the Argentine Oktoberfest, in a small German enclave in the province of Cordoba, my friends and I had a daylong stopover in the capital of the province, which has the same name. Name... |
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 | Counter Columbus
2003-10-12, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: chefortune | | The idea of making a "celebration" out of Columbus Day, the anniversary of the Italian sailor's arrival to the Carribbean archipelago island which he thought was actually part of Southeast Asia, has n... |
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 | Gracias Madres!
2003-10-02, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: chefortune | | Thanks to a contact one of the other Peace Scholars recently made, we were able to meet up this past week with the Madres de la Plaza de Mayo, one of the most momentous reunions we've had to date in A... |
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 | When the banks are like cathedrals
2003-09-12, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: chefortune | | I've been working one day a week at a soup kitchen run inside the hall of the national Anglican Cathedral in Buenos Aires, which is two blocks away from the Casa Rosada in the centre of the city. It i... |
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| Dis is a Discourse -- Hurricane Chavez
2003-08-19, Recoleta, Argentina. By: chefortune | | After having missed the historic Fidel Castro discourse on the steps of the University of Buenos Aires' Law School steps, I wasn't about to let the same thing occur when Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chav... |
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 | Homage to Recoleta
2003-07-01, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: chefortune | | I've only made passing references so far to the craziness that is my barrio of Recoleta in downtown Buenos Aires. Due to its schizophrenia, I believe it deserves an entire entry all of its own. Geogra... |
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| Celtic Argentina
2003-06-28, Martinez, Argentina. By: chefortune | | Finishing up my first term paper for the master's degree (which is, incidentally, my first term paper ever in Spanish, and so quite an achievement!) I decided to celebrate this weekend. And luckily th... |
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| Some egg-cellent observations
2003-05-15, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: chefortune | | One day, as I arrived at my faculty for class, I came across an interesting local custom that quite took me by surprise. A young Asian girl was being hosed down outside the building, a pile of splatte... |
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 | Livin’ la vida gaucha
2003-05-01, Cordoba, Argentina. By: chefortune | | For the May Day holiday, I decided to escape the hustle bustle of Buenos Aires for a bit and head out to the pampas in the Argentine countryside to spend the long weekend at an estancia (dude ranch). ... |
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| Festejón
2003-04-26, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: chefortune | | I try not to do things by halves. And my first Argentine party was certainly no exception. After spending the afternoon sailing out on the Río de la Plata, missing the train home because I snuck off t... |
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| President's Week
2003-05-25, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: chefortune | | This year’s 25 May (Day of the Republic) was quite special in Argentina since the new President, Nestor Kirchner, was sworn into office in the Congress building. All the heads of state of Latin Americ... |
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 | Dale Dale Boca
2003-06-01, La Boca, Argentina. By: chefortune | | I finally gave into temptation and headed out to experience one of the quintessential porteno experiences, a faceoff between deadly rivals (in football terms), Boca Juniors and River Plate.
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| Chorros
2003-04-17, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: chefortune | | Today I had my first "experience" with the growing social problem in Argentina...the exponential increase in robberies. After continuing in the perpetual task of flat-hunting in Palermo Viejo, a trend... |
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| Minding your P's and Q's
2003-04-15, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: chefortune | | P(iqueteros) and Q(ueues)
Two of the most quintessential Argentine experiences I've had to date are the piquetero demonstrations and going to a bank. Although the social climate is nowhere near as ... |
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| Re Feo
2003-04-17, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: chefortune | | Well it finally happened. All of the psychological terror we've had drilled into us since we arrived in Buenos Aires finally became a self-fulfilling prophecy (look at that, 3 weeks in Freudland and I... |
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| Lunfardo and loquacity
2003-04-13, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: chefortune | | Yesterday on my way back from Palermo Viejo and the ubiquitous task of flat-hunting, which requires hours of patience and trudging along the cobblestone streets of this much-sough-after district, I ca... |
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| Retreat to the weekend home
2003-04-09, Pilar, Argentina. By: chefortune | | Seeking a bit of respite from the big city, I headed out to my counselor´s weekend home in Pilar, north of Buenos Aires. There I spent a lovely day lounging in the sun, drinking Quilmes beer and Argen... |
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| Pomp and Circumstance
2003-04-07, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: chefortune | | This morning the Peace Studies programme officially kicked off, and it was with much ceremony that we were wheeled out as the inaugural class of Peace Scholars. After a couple of speeches from the Rec... |
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| The drinking of Mate
2003-04-10, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: chefortune | | This afternoon I sampled my first mate session since coming to Argentina, shared among three of the scholars in my programme. The drink is somewhat of an institution in Argentina and surrounding Riopl... |
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| Agora Eu falho o portugues!
2003-04-11, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: chefortune | | Classes began this week in the Master´s, but in our programme we´re also allowed to take a selection of whatever we like from the undergraduate offerings at the Universidad del Salvador. For my part, ... |
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| Househunting and "experiences"
2003-04-02, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: chefortune | | Although some of my Rotary programme classmates have spent quite some time househunting so far, I seem to have lucked out on my first attempt. I arranged an appointment to see a small departamento in ... |
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