So right now I'm in the midst of one of those situations where you feel like a given segment of time has passed at lightning speed, but at the same time like it lasted 20 times longer than it actually did. The particular segment of time in question currently is the past week. I'm not going to be able to talk about all of it, and I might give certain things attention disproportionate to their interestingness, but nothing nor no-one is perfect supongo. Supongo is spanish for "I supppose," in case you couldn't guess. I have just gotten into the habit [View Full Entry]

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So this has been a pretty odd week. I´ve started to feel like a real student to some extent, as I finally have a couple of essays to write and, more importantly, an endless supply of psychology reading on which to catch up. The latter is due to the fact that I only just this past week obtained my id for la UCA, and hence have just now been able to get my textbooks. And of course because there are no strict guidelines for which pages we should read, I can´t help but feel an obligation to read everything that could [View Full Entry]

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So not long after writing that entry yesterday I had a pretty interesting and novel experience. Going out in the evenings seems to be something I haven´t totally figured out yet here, so I suppose that´s why it continues to be a pretty prolific source of them. So this particular evening I decided to go to this Brazilian Bossa Nova festival, where supposedly there were going to be free concerts as well as sort of a fair type of thing with traditional food, etc. It was recommended to me by a website which was recommended to me by someone who seems [View Full Entry]

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So I've noticed a bit of a drop in readership recently. That's sensible enough, considering that my frequency of entries has decreased a fair bit as well. That's fairly easy to explain: it has to do with the increasingly routinized nature of my life here; as the title indicates, things have stabilized a bit. It used to be that pretty much every day had to be filled in some novel way, usually ending up in an "adventure" of some sort. Now that I have a moderately (but still not really) full schedule of classes, my experiences and challenges are more typical [View Full Entry]

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Transcribed from my notebook; originally written 8/24. So although at the time of writing this I still have at least a sixteen hour bus ride to Buenos Aires ahead of me, I feel justified nonetheless in pronouncing it to have been an incredibly good weekend. Setting out from B.A. last Thursday at 9:30 pm, I came determined to sleep fully on the bus, something I have never been able to do in such situations. And I appear to have been moderately successful in that endeavor. I struggled to sleep for what seemed like several hours, but was surprised to find the [View Full Entry]

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Hey so some cool things have developed. First of all, I went to una doctora muy amable today and she prescribed me something to deal with this ridiculous "tos" I've had since the day before I left. And I have absolute trust in this doctor, such that I now firmly believe that my days of coughing rather than sleeping are finally over. Not that I've been doing so bad. Last night I had virtually no sleep (don't worry, that's exceptional) and so today, after a satisfying morning row, I was filled with a kind of frenetic, insomniac sort of energy, and [View Full Entry]

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¿Como se va ustedes? I´m doing pretty well I suppose. I´ve just finished all of my classes for the week (although in a couple weeks I´ll have spanish class as well on wednesdays and thursdays), and although I´m not particularly happy about, I suppose the reason I´m not happy about it is cause for happiness: the classes were all pretty cool. Yesterday at 12 I went to my first FLACSO class, which is devoted to argentine dance. Yes, including tango. But we also will be learning about more traditional dances, such as the Gato. This dance is performed in pairs or [View Full Entry]

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[NOTE: Due to internet issues I was unable to publish this yesterday when it was originally written. In case you were wondering why it’s all about yesterday.] Hey. So the title of this entry just translates to "...has nothing to do with..." except the verb that's used, "ver" means "to see" rather than "to do." It's just an expression that I find kind of funny, because it's used in exactly the same way as the english equivalent, but it just strikes me as odd that they use that particular verb. So that's that. Anyway, yesterday was pretty good. From today to [View Full Entry]

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Today was the first entirely sunny day since I've been here. It was the first time I saw the sun set. It was also the coldest: 1 degree C at about 9 am. It's been a pretty satisfying weekend, though I haven't exactly been taking advantage of the famed Buenos Aires nightlife. I sort of did on friday. I set out after dinner, at about 11, for a party organized by the "Buenos Aires Pub Crawl" specifically for exchange students. I went more out of a sense of obligation than anything else. Also, I would have felt awkward staying in when [View Full Entry]

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So it's about to be my one week anniversary here, and I don't really believe it. It seems to have been significantly more time. I think I might have already gone through most of the stages of culture shock. After writing my last entry on sunday, I went two nights with virtually no sleep, due to a combination of factors that included a bad cough and the fact that there was tons of city light entering via my window, a cual no estoy acostumbrado (some things just sound less awkward in spanish). But I started facing the other way and taking [View Full Entry]

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