Today waking up and trying to convince myself I needed to get up before dawn to get on a megabus…boy was it hard to do here in Buenos Aires, this place has a night life that literally starts when Sydney Sleeps hard into the night…so waking up early is near zero…But anyways, after making the mountainous effort I finally woke up and decided to walk to Retiro bus terminal and got me a megabus to La Plata!!! La Plata, is kind of like the Canberra of Argentina, even tho Buenos Aires is the Capital…but nevertheless La Plata is where all the [View Full Entry]

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It´s been long, I completely realize. I have way, way way too much too write about, but I have pictures to tell all! Since I last wrote: * Mom and dad came to visit * Started school again * Bekah has left * I went to Viki´s old ,old school to talk English with a class there. (It´s a Private girl´s Catholic school) * I went to Cordoba with Signe * I moved host families, and moved back to The Molteni (The Gabis) * Was with Signe in a Plaza here, got her cell phone stolen, but then I politely asked [View Full Entry]

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My Legacy in Argentina I am so happy and excited that I had to write this blog entry. Today I finished my project and truly left a legacy in Argentina! The last 3 months I have networked, sympathized and analyzed a mountain of information with a large number of people all over the city for social movements, cooperatives, and entrepreneurial resources. I was able to write and win a grant proposal for a consulting project to work with a few of the local comedors in Buenos Aires province leading workshops in social entrepreneurship for cooperatives. After the research part of [View Full Entry]

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Things are winding down but not without a ton of work and play and of course another Argentine Crisis. My 25th Birthday I turned 25 about a mth ago but I have been slacking on my blog entries so I thought I would start with that. I had a fantastic Birthday thanks to all of my friends especially Jennifer! We had a huge American Southern food fest in her house, which the Argentines seemed to like. From there we made it out to one bar where a bunch of people met up with us and the bar gave us a few [View Full Entry]

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Unfortunately this entry isn't about cars but about how I became VERY if not overly proactive this past week!!! This is the typical Jenn schedule ;) for those of you who don't know me I’m a complete workaholic. When the myriad of travelling stopped about two weeks ago, I got extremely bored and started brainstorming......................... CEP My internship at CEP has been extraordinarily slow; such is the life of an intern. I was able to accompany Virginia and Luis to a bunch of PYMES the last few weeks to discuss this years plan for capacity training. Next week I will si [View Full Entry]

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Friday Feb 22 Us district 4910 exchange students from la plata met up in the bus terminal here, and took a 4-hour and a bit bus ride to Merlo. In Merlo was the travel Agency. we waited for a few hours, so we ate lunch, and met some other exchange students that were also one of the first few to board the bus, who were all from the city of Buenos Aires. One of the guys that lives in Bsas goes to the school with Christina Alak´s (the president) daughter. We went for a longgg bus ride, picking up exchange students [View Full Entry]

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It’s not all about traveling Just wanted to make sure to add some info about the work I'm doing so that it doesn't seem like I took an 8 month vacation ;) CEP I work for CEP (Centro de Entrenamiento para la Producción)(http://www.centrocep.com.ar/Index.html). They are an NGO that works with PYMES (Small and medium sized businesses). CEP works with PYMES to promote the development of an entrepreneurial culture in Argentina, which is quickly growing as the government has started offering a lot of growth subsidies and tax credits for training and technology that make [View Full Entry]

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This past Wednesday and Thursday I didn´t really do much due to the heat being absolutely unbearable. On Friday I went to the post office, which turned out to be closed but on my way home I saw Brenda and Caro from my class, we went to the kiosco and talked for a bit. That night Amelia slept over because we were going to go to celebrate Bekah´s birthday with her that night at a bar or something, but we had people over here and by the time we were done and we found out the info for that night, it [View Full Entry]

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On Saturday, I got together with Paula Vivani, and we went to The Repu.(La Republica). This past week has been weird weather, raining,then hot, then cool, and all over again. That night I went to the video store with Gabi and we rented a movie called Man To Man. Iliked it a lot, I´d reccomend seeing it..It´s about some researchers from Europe that are studying the pygmies (correct spelling?), and they sort of treat them like animals,putting them on exhibit, taking them from their home land, and stuff. That Sunday we all went out for dinner to a place that makes [View Full Entry]

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Who is American? When I tell people I´m American, they always ask which country I´m from, with a confused look on their faces like I obviously did not understand the question. South Americans and Central Americans are just as American as us North Americans. I was told this so many times in the last week I’ve been guilt tripped into using Estadounidense.. Which of course basically means United States(ien) or something of that nature. Don’t get me wrong I agree with the logic.. its just so much easier to say Americana!! I’m on my second week of work after having [View Full Entry]

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