Blogs from Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina, South America - page 11

Hola amigos.... Just another average week of travelling... you know 20 hour bus rides... viewing one of the 7 natural wonders of the world... watched a huge soccer (er i mean football ) match with tons of ravaged soccer (er I mean football! this gonna take some geting used to!) fans on a big screen and then proceeded to the birthplace of one of the most prominent and rebellious figures of the 20th century...ho hum ...so bored! Our adventure continues picking up in buenos aires where we decided to break down and pay for a plane ticket north to Puerto Igazu...which is tucked along two rivers and bordered by paraguay in the west and brazil in the north east... a very happening place as it is one of the top tourist destinations in south america... thanks ... read more

We're rushing through Argentina at this point in an effort to arrive early in Buenos Aires. According to the film Starship Troopers, BA should prove to be a cultural smorgasbord of English-speaking Aryans and giant killer bugs. In the meantime, there's no reason we can't spend a day in Rosario, where Argentina apparently keeps the majority of their towering, ostentatious monuments. After enduring a bus ride from Cordoba on which we were forced to watch Crash (not the awesome 1997 Cronenberg version but this new awful Sandra Bullock one), we were greeted at the door of Rosario Hostel by a fabulously attractive girl named Rita. (Eden and I agreed that seeing fabulously attractive girls is good for helping you forget you just watched an awful Sandra Bullock movie.) The evening got even better when an Australian ... read more

Well, here I am again in the middle of a school week, and I think that my spanish is coming along fairly well. I have a fairly good grasp of the slang here now as well, which definitely helps things. During this fin de semana I went to a concert with all of the other kids from the program, and it was amazing! The music was fantastic, se llama Bersuit, they are a fusion group that plays a mix of rock and indigenous music. It was nice to see a local band,since so much of the music that they play here is from the US. Interestingly, a lot of the really popular music (both from here and from the US) is taken straight out of the 80's. Bands like U2 hold precedence over all of the ... read more

Well, I seem to be getting more and more comfortable in the city. Each day is a little bit easier. I had my first bus ride yesterday, solo. And it was quite an experience. I live near one of the local Futbol stadiums, and there was a game, so by the time that I got home at about 7:30 the streets were packed. I watched the game on TV since I didn't have a ticket, and I don't think that I was allowed to go anyway, since the game was between the Newells (a local team), and the Goias (a Brasilian team). My family is for the Centrals, which is the other local team, not the Newells. Every time that the Newells were carded my father cheered! It was amazing to hear the screams from the ... read more

when i came to southamerica, I didn´t even know all the rules to futbol(thats soccer to us gringos) and frankly just didnt find it that exciting. that changes after you experience first hand the energy of a latin american futbol game. the matches here are really more like controlled riots where, incidentally, some soccer happens! ºº aside on violence here: public violence is just part of the culture here in latin america, and is very shocking at first - i recently saw a guy running for student government at my university get beat to a pulp by another party ON TV OVER UNIVERSITY POLITICS. there was also a full-on riot at one of the soccer games after a bad call, which the fans of the two teams decided to pick up where they left off at ... read more