 | My 3rd World Hospital Experience
2008-03-06, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: lmae613 | | No I didn't get sick! lol, My teacher set up for me to go to a hospital for a couple of hours. I toured the hospital and spoke to the nurses and doctors. Everyone was very receptive and friendly. My l... |
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| Goodbye to Buenos Aires
2008-03-09, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: lmae613 | | Wow, I can't believe my time here in BA is ending. It's been absolutely amazing and I don't want to leave.
I had an awesome week. Class was a disaster for our teacher because she couldn't really p... |
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| Back in Buenos Aires after an amazing long weekend
2008-03-03, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: lmae613 | | Sorry, I have been silent, I will write more later. Since I last wrote, I finished out the week here in Buenos Aires with classes, hanging out, etc., nothing super eventful.
I had gotten a Brazili... |
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| Things Very Argentine
2008-02-25, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: lmae613 | | - Mate – Their version of tea, it has this “herb or whatever?” called Yerba in it filled to the brim and you drink it through a straw that’s only open at the top, but it has holes so that you can drin... |
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| Things I Miss
2008-02-25, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: lmae613 | | Things I miss most from back home
- My Family and Friends
- Being able to understand menus/ knowing all the foods
- Being able to cook with the ingredients I’m used to
- IHOP - Pancakes and Fre... |
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| Man can’t live on bread alone
2008-02-25, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: lmae613 | | I am worried that I am going to gain so much weight here. I am having a little trouble getting adjusted to the food. I feel like I eat nothing but empanadas, bread, soda, and ice cream, and meat. The ... |
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 | Eternal Spottiness of a Confused Mind
2008-02-12, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: sauntering | | It feels like a dream, waking up in Buenos Aires. I walk down the city streets not fully grasping how the buildings lead only to more buildings. No beach, no mountains, no vines and orchids hanging ... |
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| Skype is Amazing
2008-02-08, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: lmae613 | | The students here introduced me to skype. It's a pretty sweet program. You can download it onto your computer for free (google: Skype). It's a program that with a headset, you can talk to other skye m... |
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| I am not from Brazil!
2008-02-10, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: lmae613 | | You can live a pretty sweet life here in Beunos Aires. It's fairly cheap to get by here, considering the conversion. It's 1 USD : 3 Pesos, which is prett awesome, but when you buy anything American, i... |
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| Oh how I love the Spanish Language
2008-02-11, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: lmae613 | | Class is going well. I'm slowly adjusting to the different spanish pronunciation of words. Calle - instead of pronouncing 'll' as a 'y' as in spain and most of latin america and how I learned, they pr... |
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 | Last Days in Buenos Aires
2007-12-20, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: sauntering | | After I received my visa to Brazil (and you can bet that I’m omitting plenty of tedious details in the statement), it really began to sink in that Argentina would no longer be my home.
I had to ask... |
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 | Pushes and Pulls
2007-12-15, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: sauntering | | Jacey, gone. Stanley, gone. Just when I made peace, a new wave crashed its crest full of shit over me. At least, that’s how it felt. I had seven days left in my apartment before the lease ran out.... |
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 | The Strategy (Or Stratagem)
2007-12-03, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: sauntering | | Mechanism for survival: Try something new every day. Whether it’s strolling into an unfamiliar neighborhood (shoddy La Boca), or eating a different kind of empanada (carrot in whole wheat), the novel... |
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 | Reevaluation
2007-11-31, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: sauntering | | Let me get this straight. I’m “stranded” in Argentina…without a serious job…without anybody to answer to… with a bit of savings and the sympathy (thus potential for monetary support) of my parents… I... |
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 | Significant Departure
2007-11-29, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: sauntering | | She’s gone. She left me. Let the sappy violin music start to swell, for I am now alone in this gigantic city. Jacey was supposed to leave in December or January, but on Monday she told me that she ... |
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 | Thanksgiving in Argentina
2007-11-22, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: sauntering | | Honestly, most days I feel pretty smug about being in Argentina; sifting through the news to discover another moronic thing Bush has done to fuck over the USA, and how Britney has escalated into a new... |
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 | Springing Forward, Limping Away
2007-11-19, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: sauntering | | I can't find Stanley a home. I have put ads on websites, posters in shops, I even attached a sign to his back that says, "Necesito Una Casa" and paraded him down the city streets for a live public sh... |
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 | Updates
2007-11-15, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: sauntering | | I returned from Rosario to find myself floating like flotsam and jetsam in a new circumstance. Jacey stayed in Buenos Aires to care for Stanley and to host her Chilean Beau, who had come to woo her fo... |
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 | Tango y tombs....
2007-11-02, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: clair2amy | | What a city...Wow..huge!!! Excited about catching up with a friend of a friend. Marta picked us up and took us out for steak - which Amy loved!! Then had crazy drive out into the beautiful country to ... |
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 | Sleeping Patterns
2007-11-09, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: sauntering | | Though I still can’t sleep, now I at least have some company. (For those who didn’t read the previous entry, I don’t mean some hot Latin guy, I mean a furry animal I picked up off the street. Classy... |
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 | An Argentine B-Day
2007-11-02, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: sauntering | | The celebration merrily began at 12:01am, in a convent. (Perhaps my mom, who once overlooked the slight fact that she was Jewish in her aspirations to be a nun, would be pleased. Hi Mom.) Once a mo... |
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 | Progessing Through The Years
2007-11-01, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: sauntering | | Isn’t it difficult to gauge progress? Oftentimes the circumstances in life don’t offer like foundations for comparison, for there is always a variable that shifts one’s judgment. Perhaps Birthdays mi... |
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 | The Show Must Go On
2007-10-29, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: sauntering | | The benefit to having neighbors who want to sodomize you? There’s no better time to get out and about! Why hasn’t the USA’s dieting industry exploited this tactic yet?
I went to my first Argent... |
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 | Call Me Paranoid
2007-10-26, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: sauntering | | But being asked out by one of the druggy, porn-producing neighbors, and then opening up my email to receive a naughty video-clip from him, is enough to make me want to move out. When his two roommate... |
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 | Porn And The City
2007-10-24, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: sauntering | | Always thought our neighbors, tattooed Norwegian folk in “computers,” were a little off. When we were first acquainted, they were murmuring from the depths of their drugs trips. Want a postcard? Ev... |
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 | Small Comforts
2007-10-20, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: sauntering | | My sister peppered me with nicknames throughout our childhood, and I concede that “Wrong Way Ingber” could still be accurate. I am not particularly savvy with streets or maps of streets (and I actual... |
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 | Contagion
2007-10-18, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: sauntering | | Back in Buenos Aires. The air feels warmer and the trees look fuller than when I left. The mosquitoes are soaring, but it is not because of them that I’ve got this sudden irritation. I’m calling it... |
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 | Preparations For A Side Trip
2007-10-10, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: sauntering | | Well, Jacey and I are off to Chile in a few hours. No, no, we aren't moving again. My flimsy arms couldn’t take it. But we are trying to take advantage of the moment and relative proximity.
So ... |
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 | La Noche De Los Museos
2007-10-06, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: sauntering | | Always was a life long learner. (Reading nonfiction books at the movie theater before the documentary started.) So when I was invited to museum hop on Saturday night, how could I say no?
Once a... |
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 | Interlude with God
2007-10-05, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: sauntering | | Dear God,
It’s been some time since we last opened up a dialogue, since I lost Sweetie I think? I guess I can let that one slide.
Just wanted to say hey. I do appreciate my lack of lactose in... |
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 | Quantifying The Glamour
2007-10-03, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: sauntering | | I am brimming with information and passion, and I am going to bestow all of it in this terrific little ex-pat magazine (www.BAInsiderMag.com).
Eg, Did you ever notice all of the poetic, inspiring... |
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 | First Rainy Day
2007-10-01, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: sauntering | | This thunderstorm will not cease, and I refuse to acknowledge it from anywhere but my window.
I light some candles and put on some music. I take out my book and spend a few hours in a fictional ... |
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 | Exhanges in the Cemetery
2007-09-30, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: sauntering | | My social life is not exactly booming. I know I have only been here ten days, but to be entirely honest, I sometimes worry that my Castilian speaking self is not as likable as the English counterpart... |
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 | Apartment Search Part II
2007-09-28, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: sauntering | | Through a Kevin Bacon-esque string of people, we were put in touch with BA Planet ([url]http://www.baplanet.com/english/[/url]), which in actuality is just two cute guys with laptops and a leggy, coff... |
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 | Apartment Search Part I
2007-09-27, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: sauntering | | After exploring a few neighborhoods, Jace and I have decided that we like Buenos Aires enough to stay. But perhaps that’s easier said than done. Nothing can be taken for granted here. Even opening ... |
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 | Bearings in Buenos Aires
2007-09-25, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: sauntering | | Buenos Aires is home to 13 million. Yet the neighborhoods that have formed as a result are much more diverse than the actual inhabitants. - I swear, I have seen merely one Asian, and no blacks since... |
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 | A New Day
2007-09-22, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: sauntering | | We stood at the port in Buenos Aires for over an hour, making phone calls and consulting maps to secure a place for ourselves for the night. The sun had already begun to set. A crumbly old man, who ... |
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 | A Change Of Heart
2007-09-21, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: sauntering | | Chau Montevideo!
For about $40, you can jump on a two and a half hour bus to Colonia, Uruguay, and then an hour long ferry across El Rio De Plata (The Silver River) to arrive in Buenos Aires.
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 | dont cry for me argentina......
2007-08-26, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: bayile | | i've got an hour to go before i have to leave the hotel..boohooo.
i've had an amazing time.buenos aires embraced me like i was one of its own and im sad to leave..however i've been invited back in ... |
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| after the show...its the afterparty
2007-08-24, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: bayile | | hello all,
i´ve not had a chance to update this as the internet in my room costs 10 pounds per day.so have to use the business centre to get free access.
i´ve had back to back meetings with designer... |
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| the bold and the beautiful (pt 2)
2007-08-22, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: bayile | | The models were beautiful and were naturals in front of the camera.one model,i'll call her miss beautiful(didnt catche her name),is the top model in argentina.she also does work in new york and miami ... |
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| the bold and the beautiful (pt 1)
2007-08-22, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: bayile | | cant comment much about the flight over as i slept as soon as i got on.never ate dinner.woke up in middle of the night and watched "goodbye bafana"(the nelson mandela story) and "lonely hearts(true st... |
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| hello buenos aires
2007-08-21, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: bayile | | hey all
had a great flight.In the internet cafe round from my hotel cos the hotel charges for daily rate and i only wanted to use it for few minutes.cos i´ll be out later.
the hotel is lovely better... |
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 | First Impression - Take Two
2007-08-12, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: sloughrob | | Arrived in Buenos Aires today, after a flight across the Andes from Santiago. Cold, and windy, but a lovely city. Took a stroll over to Plaze de Mayo and then up to Diagonal Norte all in the Montserra... |
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 | Other Points
2007-05-14, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: adsdan | | Ads fell over numerous times...the footpaths and roads are in need of major repair. There is no such thing as public safety...workers leaving scaffolding, ladders and materials all over the sidewalks.... |
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