Blogs from Córdoba, Argentina, South America - page 21

gezien op de andere blog commentaartjes niet mogelijk waren, heb ik er een nieuwe aangemaakt... ik ben ni zo'n held in deze dingen, maar ik doe mijn best en ik beloof plechtig dat ik morgen namiddag eens een echt verslag van de eerste dagen ga maken... ik stel het hier wel... hard gewerkt ondertss al in vrij back to basic omstandigheden, zuid-amerika op en top... spaans is voorlopig nog een beetje de barriere, maar op deze twee korte dagen is dat al een pak gebeterd, dus het kan alleen maar in de goeie richting gaan... ik mis jullie x 34 graden en stralende zon... read more

I thought I'd take a break from posting the usualy Day X blog, and just use this time to talk about one of the things that's got me baffled. Why do we have so many different sets of languages in the world, and why can't we just eliminate them all except one and use that as a universal langauge, and you'll understand why I use the word "plauge" in the title as you read more into the blog. According to http://www.ethnologue.com/, there's 6,912 languages in the world that's being used to say practically the same thing but with a different set of words. Honestly, do we need that many? I mean, I've had the displeasuable experience of being really confused in South America only because I barely know the language, and sometimes hand signals can get ... read more

The bus-ride to Rosario was nice, although "different" than expected :-) First I saw some "old friends" again - the Church of Lujan ;-) Than we stopped there at the Terminal and they asked us to get off the bus, but we can leave the luggage. We did so and the bus disappeared ... I didn´t understand the explanation, why we had to leave, so I just kept stuck to the other people of the bus. After half an hour the bus returned and we got on again - I couldn´t see any "change", so I asked my sit-neighbor, what this all was about and he told me, that they have went with the bus to a garage, to make a motor-service ... :-) ... well, that´s not what I would call "inspiring confidence", but we ... read more

12 hours up the road we ended up in Cordoba. Its Argentina's 2nd biggest city and it was peeing rain when we arrived. We went to our prebooked hostel which we ended up regretting. It had a terrible vibe for reasons i cant go into. We spent the next 2 days walking around the city. There wasnt much there as far as we could tell and as it was the weekend the streets were deserted. We did visit a cool museum and went to a really cool tango show apart from the cheesy singing!! Its funny how you can have a totally different time to someone else. Met a guy in Salta who was to spend 2 days there and spent 5 and partied every night til dawn. Don't know what we were up to. So ... read more

So there was a transportation strike today, therefore I was unable to go to Che´s hometown, Alta Gracia. walked around town. had lunch in a park. had some yummy ice cream. hoping to go to alta gracia tomorrow- we will see if the buses are going again. love meg ... read more