Well blogging buddies I am just popping on the give a brief update and tell you that I had a bit too much sun yesterday so today feel quite washed out. It is early to bed for me and I will post manana. Let me just say though that I started school. a class of 6 students (2 Canada,1 USA,2 Australia,and one from Latvia! I have homework I will do in the morning after a nights sleep. Buenas noches... read more

Wow it was hot today,in the sunshine probably 37 or more and there was lots and lots of sun. I started the day with my coffee and breakfast at a leisurely pace and read the spanish paper on the balcony. I supppose saying I read the paper is a stretch but I am scanning the words and making up the story as I do.Perhaps I am getting it right perhaps not but in any event the exercise pleases me and I think i am getting it. I also try to pronounce the words, so my neighbours may wonder about the mumbling going on above and below them.I wandered out into the heat with my mission for the morning to go to my school to get a sense of location and distance before my first day of ... read more

Hola blog readers, this is my first entry of hopefully many, to chronicle and pass on the experience of a gringo in Buenos Aires.I enjoyed blogging on a trip to china back in 2005 and you can also read those posts here I think as nothing seems to ever disappear once it is etched in the world wide web. I left Canada on the evening of January3rd flying Air Canada (the peoples airline) through Toronto,Santiago Chile to Buenos Aires. Passing through Toronto I spend the time sipping and sitting in the Maple leaf loungs listening to the Canada/Russia hockey game and as the game got worse and worse for canada I thought that it seemed to mark a good time to leave the North before the collective downer and gnashing of teeth over the loss, coupled ... read more

Well it seems like a long way off when you first arrive but here it is already. Our last full day in China began early with the sound of a flute playing coming from somewhere in Peoples Square. Neither of us got up to see the source but enjoyed the offering. After breakfast we went to see the Urban Planing Exhibition Hall just across the park from our hotel - a beautiful building dedicated to the future planning for Shanghai. It was, as we should now be expecting, well done and informative.The maquette of the city is amazing and there were films and displays about the port's future, industrial zones, pollution controls, water and waste systems, revitalizations of all sorts. I hate to be sucked in by propaganda and wonder at what cost all these amazing ... read more

We do not meet Kelly until 9:30 and enjoy breakfast and the BBC world service on TV. Terrible news from Pakistan.We walk across Peoples square to visit the Shanghaii museum first off.Kelly leaves us to wander on our own and we enjoy the jade galleries as well as the porceline and some calligraphy.The museum is beautiful and modern with some stunningly beautiful things to see, After the museum we are off by taxi to walk along the 'Bund', a mile long boardwalk running along the Huangpu river. The busy river on one side and a street of large ex financial neo classical 1930's New York style buildings. Kelly tells us of the city stories,history. From the Bund we are off to the French Concession.Apparently no french lived here mostly chinese and russians.The area is one of ... read more