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Here the pics of my 4 weeks in BA! and I'll try to upload the penguin video...... read more

Here the first round of the promised pictures!... read more

I spent the last week of my trip in São Paulo, the richest city of Brazil. I had a great time, got to see big parts of this huge city, tried a lot of different food (Patty, I'll need a list with the names!), enjoyed all these great, fresh, colourful fruits, went dancing samba and sertanejo, made Brazilian friends, tried to survive with my 10 Portuguese words (I can read a lot in Portuguese, but why does it have to sound so differently when people speak?!?), and spent the weekend on the farm of Patty's family, 2h away from the city, where we drank caipirinhas, and enjoyed the sun and the amazing landscape. I can't talk about Brazil since I saw only one city, but I can say that São Paulo is different from everything I've ... read more

On Thursday I met Andres, the Cordobese guy who lives in Spain and who I met in Bariloche and who was in Cordoba city on this day. Afterwards, I went drinking mate with Benjamin and in the evening I got invited by his friend Anton and we kept talking until 3 am. On Wednesday, I had just time to buy some yerba and alfajores before starting my 21h bus trip to Puerto Iguazu. ExpresoSinger is the greatest bus company ever! Nice temperature, good seats, nice people, good(!) food and the first time I saw a woman working on a bus. The last 2h I was the only passenger :) The weather in Cordoba was quite nice, but here in Iguazu it's subtropic. The earth is red, the landscape green, green, green...beautiful! And the mosquitos aren't such ... read more

Today I got my certificate for the courses I took here in Baires. During this last week, I attended classes of the C1 level, which consisted mainly of heated discussions about complex and philosophic topics. Our teacher loved to provoke us by generalising and exaggerating our arguments (I know a few people who would have loved these classes). In our class we were 3 Swiss, 2 from the USA, and 2 Brazilians with quite different opinions about suicide, freedom, the duties of the government, and Spanish grammar. We also read and discussed the story 'Abenjacán el bojarí, muerto en su laberinto' by J. L. Borges. It's an interesting text, but not my favourite story by Borges. Anyway, the funniest texts are the ones that contain English words such as Yale ('Shale'), google ('gogle') or Phoenix (no, ... read more