Hey all...here are some pictures to kinda go with my last entry!!! I just had some delightful hot chocolate.........oh my SOOO GOOD!!! Yesterday we went on a boat on el Rio Parana and then had a walking tour through the city. There are also some pics of that on here...this entry has a lot sorry if it takes awhle to load!!! [View Full Entry]

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Mittlerweile ist nun schon eine Woche vergangen.... Mittwoch hat mich meine Mitbewohnerin Lucá zu ihrer Grossmutter in Villa CarLos Paz mitgenommen zum Mittagessen. Die Stadt liegt ca. eine STunde mit dem Bus in den Sierras entfernt (Busfahrten sind extrem abenteuerlich!!! Woher soll man wissen wo man aussteigen muss, wenn man nicht weiss, wie die Gegend aussieht und es keine Schilder oder Hinweise oder Bushaltestellen im generellen gib???). Dabei handelt es sich allerdings um eine reine "Touritenstadt", die von Leuten aus Buenos Aires oder Córdoba als Zweitwohnsitz im Sommer genutzt wird. Dor [View Full Entry]

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I´m officially in Rosario now! I arrived here after a 4hour bus ride from BA on Tuesday! We spent the first night sociallizing and went out to a local hang out place. I got to chat up some locals and learn some new slang :-) The next day we tested for our spanish levels and had orientation and then met our family!!! So my family is totally amazing. I live with my mom, dad, sister, and brother. I spend the most time with my mom. She´s been taking me around showing me where places are etc. My brother works all day [View Full Entry]

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Well, my week in Buenos Aires continued to be intriguing - but relaxing it was not. The constant noise, traffic, pedestrians and political demonstrations of central BA begins to take control of your senses. Whereas London has noticeable rush hours and quiet hours, BA is a relentless urban maelstrom, and thats depite the fact that many portenos (BA residents) leave work at lunchtime to have a siesta. They must dream of exhaust fumes and screaming motorbike engines. Don´t get me wrong, its a great city - especially at night. Went to some fantastic bars and restaurants´in the trendy barrio of [View Full Entry]

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So I've noticed a bit of a drop in readership recently. That's sensible enough, considering that my frequency of entries has decreased a fair bit as well. That's fairly easy to explain: it has to do with the increasingly routinized nature of my life here; as the title indicates, things have stabilized a bit. It used to be that pretty much every day had to be filled in some novel way, usually ending up in an "adventure" of some sort. Now that I have a moderately (but still not really) full schedule of classes, my experiences and challenges are more typical [View Full Entry]

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Hello again. I hope we won’t be absent for so long at a time now. We left Mendoza on Labor Day and are now on the coast of Chile, but I don’t want to get ahead of myself. A couple of weeks ago we took three young men with us and went by bus to San Rafael. Near there we visited Valle Grande and Canon Atuel. We rented a car in the city of San Rafael, so I have now experienced driving in Argentina. I felt much safer driving there than in Mendoza. Still, I don’t think I’m cut out to [View Full Entry]

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We are finally here in Buenos Aires, Argentina!!! After planning this so long we have had our first three days in the Argentinian capital and it has been excellent. The easiest way to describe BA is as a very cosmopolitan, very big and very busy city. It has a very european feel, and we feel it is like a cross between a spanish and italian city with new york. It has the mixture of bright lights at night, huge buildings, masses of people and a buzz across the whole place. We arrived on Tuesday and after 24 hours of travelling were [View Full Entry]

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Dag 83. Etter en svaert enkel frokost paa hostellet, gikk vi rundt i byen for aa se paa byggene i sveitsisk stil og katedralen. Det var skyfri himmel og 0 grader. Vi gikk innom turistkontoret for aa hore om det var noe aa gjore for oss som ikke var her for aa staa paa slalomski - men det var heller lite. Det var kun vinterpadling- og rafting i elvene, men vi prover heller det et sted hvor vannet er noe varmere. Vi gikk inn paa en restaurant som sa veldig koselig ut, for aa spise lunsj. Vi bestilte dagens meny, og [View Full Entry]

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well, my little vacation is rapidly coming to a close. a quick summary of my weeks here... overall life has been pretty relaxed. snowboarding, sleeping, eating...alot of eating, internet cafe-ing. just laying low. i had kind of come to terms that i wouldn't be seeing alot of the country on this trip, that i was here to visit levi and snowboard. and thats basically been it. i have picked up more spanish than i could have hoped, its funny how much i can understand because of the languages similarity to french, i can read most of the signs, understand the majority [View Full Entry]

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Wir erreichen das Ende der Welt Nach 17 Stunden im Bus - inklusive "Grenzhopping" zwischen Chile und Argentinien - kommen wir in Ushuaia, der suedlichsten Stadt der Welt an. Endlich, endlich haben wir es erreicht: DAS ENDE DER WELT! Am naechsten Tag goennen wir uns dafuer etwas Ruhe, bummeln durch Ushuaia und besichtigen einige Museen, denn die Stadt am Suedzipfel des Kontinents hat eine sehr interessante Geschichte. Ihre Anfaenge fand sie als Strafkolonie fuer rueckfaellige Schwerverbrecher, spaeter wurde dann ein Gefaengnis gebaut, das man heute besichtigen kann. Bei unserem R [View Full Entry]

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