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Random Pizzeria in Palmero
Thinking about what to say about pizza in spanish What a wonderful city Buenos Aires is. It is warm, with unreal nightlife. Every night I was up until at least 3 AM, sometimes later. It is weird because the day starts so much later, you wake up at 11 or 12 and then you maybe take a nap at 6 then head out for a long night. For us it was much longer of a day though because often we had to go to school at 9 in the morning. So, basically, I have not slept more than 4 hours any night in Buenos Aires. I did however graduate the first leg of our schooling. Me vocabulario es mas grande y yo comprendo el Argentineans veces.
I am going to post a blog update on thoughts on Buenos Aires and everything soon but here are some quick thoughts and recap.
1. It is not that much different than a city in the United States. Crime seems like the same, the danger is minimal. Typically it is not good for a woman to be on the streets at night by herself. For men my size, it is ok for most places. The stores, land marks ( casa de rosado
Outside Palmero
Outside Sugar in Palmero, 3rd night (the home of the president), the giant flower (I don’t remember the name, or the Boca juniors stadium (where the 3 time world champs of soccer play) and the make up the city are not that much different. As a matter of fact, the locals listen to mostly music from the United States. Often it is from the 1980s! They loved Madonna and Michael Jackson a lot and do not try and tell one of them that those two artists are now terrible in the u.s. they will not hear it.
2. I spent a lot of time this week with the Argentians from our house. Lucas y Veronica Cama are great people. Lucas and I became particularly close. We went shopping, drank a lot together and tried to communicate. It was a great time. I recommend his home stay for any foreign travelers. He makes you breakfast every morning and will help you with anything you need.
3. I saw my good buddy Mark Bortz and the local National basketball league. Mark and Carl Edwards (the only other America on the team) are the best players on their team and they stand out a lot. Carl is
the only Black person I saw in Argentina and Mark is a huge bald white dude. Jenn and I ate dinner with them on Wednesday night at all you can eat bbq place (Meat is like all they eat in Argentina) and they told us all about Argentina and gave us tickets to the game on Friday night. I took some Argentineans and German kid I met from my school named Max and of course the American players dominated the game. Apparently they is a rule that no team can have more than 2 American players, to keep things local. The basketball stadium (unlike the soccer stadium) is very unimpressive. For their national pro league, it looked similar to a high school gym maybe worse. Regardless the game was great and it was cool to know some local sport celebrities (although not many follow the sport).
4. No one speaks English. I thought I would often encounter many people who could speak Spanish but I would say the number of people who do is like 3 out of 10, if that. BY THE WAY, I am having a very hard time typing English right now because speaking in Spanish
San Telmo-Jenn
Jenn meets a street performer makes your English a lot worse. I do not know why that is but the way they say or write sentences is not very good when put into English. It is hard to switch back and since I lack sleep and I do not edit my work very much normally, please excuse the odd and horrible English.
5. We spent a lot of times with the local people in Buenos Aires just talking. I think this country is about to boom or at least it could. It is rich in naturally resources and a lot more tourists are coming here. They are no population problems (everyone has like 6 kids) and they have a lot of people who want to work (unemployment is like 18 percent). They just need good leadership, it seems. Then again, the people drink all day long.
I am going to post some pictures about places we went to in the city. I will try to post some comments on each one. It has been a great eye-opening trip so far and one that I am already pleased with taking. I think retiring here or something would be amazing. Any way, Pics are coming.
We just got to Uruguay and are staying in a small bed and breakfast in Montevideo on the coast. This week will be significantly slowly with a lot more updates because it is mostly beaches.
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