http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/LizzZ/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from LizzZ en-us Sun, 29 Nov 2009 04:02:47 +0000 Sun, 29 Nov 2009 04:02:47 +0000 First a little business......most of you may not realize how much pride I take in having the specific details of my location for each blog. On the website where I host this blog there is a database that stores all locations and I am proud to say I have added many of the neighborhoods in Buenos Aires city...and in fact most are so obscure that I am the only one who has used these locations. I ha http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Buenos-Aires/Quilmes/blog-236734.html October 18th my last journal entry. Now almost two months since and I see my life in two different parts. Before October and after. Things happend too fast it only takes one second for your life to stop and what was two weeks felt like a life time. Never would my personal hell end. And then..... it all passed I moved and had some time to heal.Do you remember the day you realized no one real http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Buenos-Aires/Buenos-Aires/blog-226086.html oops you missed it. its 311 and i just came home....yeah you missed diplo. diplo american dj. blonde hair sleepy eyes and almost nonexistent mustache.....diplo.i have never seen him and many of my friends have but this time it was even more special. I was with brian and quin and all of quins friends who love him he leaves tomorrow. sweet sweet princesa argentinas primer femal reaggeto http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Buenos-Aires/Buenos-Aires/blog-212199.html And so the moment is come and gone. Almost 20 years ago a tiny Lizzz asked the big question Are you going to get married And now I can call a special special lady my mother and two seperate families that loved two people dearly can be joined into one. To put it more simply Dad and Mary got married. Their love for each other has been a rock for me....and on many accounts sickenly sweet. F http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Buenos-Aires/Buenos-Aires/blog-207778.html Some of you know already but Im guessing the majority of you are all strangers who are reading this blog....so Ill let you in on a little secret.Im leaving tomorrow. Yes only for two weeks but man Washington...its been a long time I havent been home to The Evergreen State in a year and a half . Im so pepped up right now that I feel like I have had too much coffee. When in actuali http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Buenos-Aires/Buenos-Aires/blog-203135.html Lately I have been under huge amounts of stress. I am finding I am so tense that I get starteled extremely easily. There is something happening in San Telmo though. Something that makes me grin laugh out loud stop in my tracks makes me think makes me dream makes me walk just a little longer makes me want to get out and explore.....graffiti.In the past couple of weeksmonths an explosion http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Buenos-Aires/Buenos-Aires/blog-202375.html My sweet sweet friend Colleen just came to visit. I hadnt seen her in many many months. Possibly 2 years but you cant really count on my math. One notable feature about my relationship with Colleen has always been the constant struggle about where we were going to eat. My great love and willingness to only eat something smothered in cheese or deep fried and my disgust for rice has always pu http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Buenos-Aires/Buenos-Aires/blog-194810.html I have lived in Buenos Aires for over a year and all around me in the expat community I have met people that get amazing opportunities. People who are invited on amazing weekends elaborate dates and to fantastic parties where they rub elbows with top models and fashion photographers. While I have gotten small glimspes into these lives I felt that I was really lacking in the cool factor. My http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Buenos-Aires/Buenos-Aires/blog-145446.html Often you ask Lizzz whats it like where you live. Tell me about your neighborhood. Yesterday was a holiday Independence Day and the streets were deserted....at least until 4pm. Thats when the fragile aguanieve became a little less timid and started to turn into just nieve. My lungs inhale the bite. Zapzingwham. I am not a pro but I know how snow smells. Jumping up and down. Screaming. Mag http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Buenos-Aires/Buenos-Aires/blog-179742.html Sitting in the lobby of The Splendido Hotel Quin and I got into a conversation with the receptionist about how to make mate. Chatting about mate culture and the differences in Argentina and Uruguay I couldnt help but be touched. The soft spoken boy with the thick stock of black hair was just so.....sweet. I felt that earlier he had been intimiated by Quin some how. In all our previous conversa http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Uruguay/District-of-Montevideo/Montevideo/blog-174007.html It hadnt rained in 3 weeks or so a student thought. Thursday evening while we were chatting and making tea fragile drops of rain sputtered on the windowpanes. Really not enough to get you wet but the next day the low gray clouds and heavy fog broke...and BABY Sweet sweet sunshine and biting cold air met me on Friday morning.This morning I woke up and started sweeping my room. I was listen http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Buenos-Aires/Buenos-Aires/blog-169882.html I am not a tidy baker. And it seems that whenever I bake more of the ingredients get dumped onto my clothes then into the bowl. Today in my haste I spilled a 12 cup of sugar onto the floor and all over my feet. Of course I swept up my mess but I still havent had time to clean out my toes. Due to the sweat and humidity my feet are gritty and sticky. The crevices between my toes are black from http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Buenos-Aires/Buenos-Aires/blog-148678.html Im doing my usual A.D.D. activity. Moving from intended activity to booty poppin practice in the mirror to intended activity to cleaning house. The cycle then repeats itself. Over and over again.Today my intended activity is packing. After one year and a glorious hot summer I plan a big trip. I leave Buenos Aires on the first day of fall and the day after walk off the plane in Indiana http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Buenos-Aires/Buenos-Aires/blog-140014.html At first I thought when the time came I would write a Buenos Aires Greatest Hits entry. A retrospective. I hate retrospectives. Im glad I remembered this before I started the entry...My first year anniversary has come and gone. Marked to the date. Circled in red felt tip pen. Counted down. And now sadly passed. I realize life is fluid. I have changed since Tuesday. I am starting to http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Buenos-Aires/Buenos-Aires/blog-132149.html I just realized that I have worked very few summers of my life. This summer with very few students and no desire to work I have had a lot of time on my hands.So what have I been doing Studying Spanish. On tuesday in a conversation I got to use the subjunctive. I dont know if I used it correctly...but I used it in a natural conversation and I was very pleased with myself. I dont think anyone http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Buenos-Aires/Buenos-Aires/blog-132139.html To my relief and tinsy bit dismay the clouds have crowded in and the air stirs bringing with is a breeze that cools and the hanging dread of rain. The past two days were unbearable at 36 C and about 97 F with very little cool off in the evenings. It was the kind of weather that made you say estoy fastidiosa I am annoyedirritated.To fill you in on today....I have taken good advantage of http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Buenos-Aires/Buenos-Aires/blog-125681.html Sitting in my little nest of pillows I look out at the gray sky and feel the light breeze coming off the river. I sit down and remember the love and magic of exploring. Not making decisions of where to go until I see what life is doing on the next corner.A secret.Buenos Aires is an amazing city but its not a place for tourists. People come here for three days or a couple of weeks. I know wha http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Buenos-Aires/Buenos-Aires/blog-117084.html The town is some how sterile looking though the houses are brightly painted and loud splashes of color burst from flowering plants. Sterile. The sun is so bright. Washed out. In this tiny town in Uruguay there is the slow growl of motorcycles the hum of birds and swells of childish chatter...it seems like a ghost town. The sun is so bright. The sun bleaches out everything and the sandy st http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Uruguay/West/Nueva-Palmira/blog-109693.html November 23 2006 marked my second year abroad during a major American holiday...thanksgiving. The first was cute. It was back in 02. There was a boy in a city in a country called Spain. I liked to kiss him. We made lasagna my favorite food and Carlos had weird los mormones statues which strangely looked like pilgrams....and NOT Mormons. We put candles next to the the lasagna and Los M http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Buenos-Aires/Buenos-Aires/blog-106822.html Sunday. Sunday didnt begin promising but I had a plan. It started at 10am when I woke up. I laid in bed for three hours. I read tossed and turned stared out the window and at the wall. At two a girl called to see if she could come and look at the room for rent in my apartment. I told her Now isnt a good time. I am going to go look at dinosarus but tonight would be perfect. I am making oa http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Buenos-Aires/Buenos-Aires/blog-101963.html