Original Post We´re almost through. Last night we gave our final Rotary presentation. We were on the hot seat a bit when we were asked to give our spontaneous impressions of Argentina and our experiences (not that it´s anything new, just in a Rotary meeting, we usually have the opportunity to give a more polished [...]
Original Post When Bryan and I walked into the door at Miriam’s from shopping with Beth and Jen and buying some Alfahores for our friends and family at home, Miriam immediately exclaimed that we were no longer going to the Teatro Colon tonight. Apparently, the workers strike that we saw when we took a tour [...]
Trip to Iguazu Falls.
Original Post It is so funny how one minute I feel like I am really understanding Spanish well and then all it takes is one person speaking at normal speed (fast) with the use of a little bit of slang or specific words that I do not know (there are plenty of them, especially with [...]
Original Post Things continue to go well and we are still very busy. I apologize for the lack of blogs but we honestly wake up early and do not ever get home before midnight. Currently, Jen, Don, Bryan and I all live about an hour cab ride (on a good day) from Miriam’s house, where [...]
Original Post Today we had a very exciting day planned with a tour of San Telmo, the River Plate vs. Quilmes soccer game followed by a play. San Telmo was my favorite place in BA so far! It is the old, historical part of town and there were many quaint buildings. Many of the buildings [...]
Original Post At the beautiful Colon theatre where we saw many posters of commonly known plays and after a few seconds realized they were, in fact, plays we had heard of. One poster said “El Lago de Cisne” which is “Swan Lake.” Another poster said “Pedro y el Lobo” which we realized meant “Peter and [...]
Original Post It is very late so this will not be as long as I would like for it to be. Hopefully, I will get a chance to add to it tomorrow. I just returned from a Rotary “party” to celebrate a club´s 35th anniversary. It was very interesting. I was sitting next to a [...]
Original Post Yesterday we took a tour of the city. As you can hopefully see from some of the pictures on snapfish, it is quite an amazing place…very European but at the same time part American and similar to Mexico. There are SO many incredible French and Italian-style buildings. Additionally, there are many old mansions [...]
Original Post Yesterday we met with Andy Deutsch, who started his own airline and now is a rancher. He flew us in one of his airplanes – a King Air that seats 10 (Don tells us the operating costs are about $250/hour, and worth about $1.6 million). We traveled about 300 km west of BA [...]
