Headed to the Green Bean Hi Mags - I am excited to see your photo exhibition at the Green Bean. I am going over on Friday to take a look - and grab a cup of coffee. Another great blog - I wish I could see you dancing the chacarera!
oh...ha ha, now i get it! I feel like an prize idiot now, but thats pretty creative actually. you have to admit though - argentines love to celebrate just about everything! I think its great :)
day of your first love i saw that commericial too....i think the commercial says "the day of your first girlfriend" I thought "wtf?" But then realized that it is the same day as mothers day....so i think you saw the same mothers day commercial i saw
Spring It is nice to hear you are getting into Spring. We are enjoying a glorious end of summer here on Bainbridge, knowing that it will end soon. Spring sounds awfully nice.
Great description of your daily life.
Love,
Dad
Care Package Hi Mags,
Hope you're getting to play some lax this week too. I'm assembling a care package with your favorite items. Here's hoping it arrives in good shape!
Love,
Mom
Green Bean Hi Maggie,
Yay!!! I'm glad to hear that you found a team to play lacrosse with. I still plan on trying it sometime; it looks like so much fun! I was soo tempted to sign up for a field hockey team but I have too much going on. Your classes sound really hands on and quite exciting; the class "protest" sure sounds different from the typical class up here. The discussions sound fun...
Tomorrow I'm going to go to Green Bean and get the measurements to put up the display! It's so exciting to have the chance to display the photos. The fundraiser "film screening" will probably be the third of fourth week of October. I'll be sure to send an invitation to your parents.
Keep the updates coming! They are fun to read!
Ruth and Stan
Hey Maggie! Your descriptions and pics are great. I noticed you referenced the ETA in your descriptions of the one group of Madres. Is there any discussion about them? Uncle Bob and I are leaving next week to hike the old pilgrimage trail to Santiago de Compostela. We'll be in the Pyrenees the first week and I'm curious as to what students may have to say about their movement.
I'll get to read lots of commentary when we get home in October. I'm curious about your host family. What kind of apartment, etc. do they have? You mentioned a host sister close to your age...is she interested in NGOs also? How political are the students themselves or is that a foolish question? All the NGOs sound exciting....what a tough choice!
Also, have you been watching the action in Oaxaca? What do the students say about it? I read that it's primarily teachers....
Keep having an amazing time!
What a life! Hey Maggie,
You are right, the scent of the blackberries is in the air on Bainbridge Island. I feel the urge to make a blackberry pie coming on... Thanks for sharing all of your experiences with us - and your photos - which are amazing! You succeed in capturing the atmosphere of Buenos Aires with your words.
too much fun Now you've done it!...after reading your varefully crafted blog, I have another place on my list of Have tos. BA sounds like a fascinating place...and a wondeerful venue for stretching all your independent muscles. Hope the enchantment persisits...I love reading your descriptions...and sharing your discoveries. Keep it coming.
Great Journal Moose, you write so well. The blog should be published. You are certainly taking in all that Argentina and Buenos Aires have to offer, and you still have three months to keep exploring. Love to you,
Dad
interesting travels Maggie, It sounds like you are having an awesome time. Uncle Allen and I picked up Mary Alice and Harry last Sunday from their respective camps, Carl came home on Tuesday and left yesterday to start Junior year at Kenyon. Harry and Mary Alice start school on Wednesday. If you have any good advice for a cousin looking for a college to attend let Harry know.Talk about fast turn arounds. It is nice to have had everyone together even if for just 3 days. Thanks for continuing to share your travels.
hola chica maggie it sounds like you're doing alot more deep soul searching in argentina then i experienced studying abroad, do they have beer in argentina?? maybe you need your big sister to come to argentina to explore this question further...you start researching and let me know...love you
Your Favorite Teacher,
Ms. Pettit
PS Heidi says Casa Latina rioted for 3 days after your departure, the neighborhood will never be the same....:(
BESITOS CHICA. Hasta la vista.
good luck when you are at UBA you should ask around a little bit about the recent protests regarding the president (maybe board president?) and his supposed relationship with the military dictators from the seventies and early eighties. It was a pretty emotional issue here. Good luck with everything here, sorry that you got sick.
Socks and other warm garments... A big hug to you, Maggie! Glad to hear that you conqered the flu bug - not a fun one, by your description, and easily transmitted. Loved hearing about your classes. Keep warm and keep well!
School days Great photos of the neighborhood, and the travel blog lets us enlarge them, so we can see the detail. I can't believe you can find the time to get through all those classes and still write the blog. Keep it up, we love it. Except, of course, the part about being sick.
Love,
Dad
Sooo Big :-) Hi Moose,
We miss you around here, but it sounds like you are on a true adventure! I am curious about the size of the city and what Winter is really like there. Can you see any hills or will you have a chance to get to the country side?
All is quiet around here, Aunt Kathy and I have inherited Billy's Black Lab Puppy Puck, as he has moved to Connecticut for a few months on his new job. Tim is in love with Liz and into hiking and biking. We just pledged money for his charity 100 mile bike ride for MS. Chris is done with his internship in LA and lived with Tim all summer. He is now headed back to Seattle for the last month of his summer break. Aunt Kathy just won the Lady's Golf Championship of Seattle Golf Club. so now I am known around the Club as Kathy Pettit's husband. Oh well, she played very well this summer.
We are going to start building at Tumble Creek this fall. We plan to build our garage, seperate from the house but with a guest house upstairs, this fall. Your Mom and Dad are planning to start next spring as well so we will all have a place to hang out while the houses are going up.
I really enjoy the updates, so keep writing.
Uncle Bill
Los papas de Pablo Viendo estos comentarios les digo que me es grato ver su forma de comunicacion. Si ven a Wanda, Miles o Collins les agradezco que le den mis saludos y mis respetos. Quedamos en comunicación.
Saúl Y Cristina de Campana Argentina
to Ela Esterberg I´m the Argentinian who will be living in BI! It was such a coincidence that I could find a reference of me and my exchange program by this means. I´m very, very surprised!.
Regards to you, and if you see her, to Wanda!.
byee!
I'm home now... Maggie, Good to hear that you are settling in and having a good time studying abroad. I'm finally back from Block Island and about to go over and move back into the apt. hope things continue to go well, enjoy every minute of it. love you.... Em
I vote for Romantic Of course, knowing your smile, they were probably just documenting facts! Hope the rest of the stay is as fun and exciting as this installment. You really need to get in touch with your Aunt Joan's friend Liz Maas. They are lovely people and aparrantly have a dynamite apartment.
Hola! The photo of the wine bottles with light shining through them is my favorite. You have an eye for catching the image, that's for sure. And I chuckled to think of you being pursued by romantic, rose-bearing young men. What's a mother to do...?!! Ciao!
Mags! It was so good to hear from you, I'm glad you got in safely. You must be with your host family by now, right? Living with a bunch of ladies, huh? I knew Scripps wouldn't let you get TOO far away. Looking forward to hearing from you again... take care and keep in touch! Love, Hannah
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Headed to the Green Bean
Hi Mags - I am excited to see your photo exhibition at the Green Bean. I am going over on Friday to take a look - and grab a cup of coffee. Another great blog - I wish I could see you dancing the chacarera!