Viva Buenos Aires!

It's been a little over a week since our arrival to BsAs, and it's fantastic over here! Jay and I live in a bohemian area of the city called San Telmo. There are art galleries and antique stores all over. It's one of the oldest parts of the city so there is an old flair to this part, which I totally dig. Although I must say, there is a good chance your sneaker might end up kissing a pile of doggy doo doo. I personally find it endearing...My shoes are shit free so far.
Leaving my parents at the airport was a tough task last Monday--I needed a dag on box of Kleenex, and you know my runny nose situation!!!!!! We survived American Airlines' savory plate of lasagne with Grade D meat (RedJess, don't tell your mom I ate the plane food) and sat in anticipation of landing in our new temporary home.
BA is a cosmopolitan city with countless amounts of stores, restaurants, museums and neighborhoods. The architecture is dope. The people are super nice and best of all, it's frikin cheap!!!!!! 3 to 1 to the American dollar. And with the way the US economy is, this is a good thing! I feel it's a relief that I left the quasi cyborg world of finance for a more nomadic, tranquil lifestyle. I can surely afford the things I actually want to do, like take art classes (15 pesos/hour = USD $5!!!!!!!! SHWING!) Jay too is doing his thang--he will be taking drum lessons here, which of course, are cheap too. Like I said, we're doing things we want to do and want to get better at doing.
Our roommates are awesome! One dude, Gabe, is from the upper west side and is cool as shit (why do i have a recurring use of shit in the blog post??...it's such a versatile word, verdad??) and our other roommate, Paula is straight from Chile and is the sweetest! I speak mostly to her in Spanish. This coming Monday I will be her model for her face makeup class, as she is taking classes at a local film school here. Sweet gig!
As far as feeling a language barrier here, it's not such a struggle. I speak better Spanish than I thought I would. Moving to another country definitely helps to improve your knowledge of the language, as you're pretty much forced to speak the language. I will start my Spanish classes (another cheap thing to do!) and begin teaching English soon. Jay's Spanish is quite good and can get around way better than I, but I just have to tell the portenos (native of Buenos Aires) slow down. We're also meeting a lot of cool people. Basically, we're on early retirement. Thank you 4 years of Binghamton!

Ok, Like Led Zeppelin said, I am doing a bit much of the ramble on in this blog, so until next time!

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