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We have been back from Iguazù since Monday afternoon. On Monday, we ended up passing on the jungle tour since it was raining and we had already had one complete day of being wet and instead went to the Wanda Mines. It was interesting to see the minerals but the two hour tour was [...]
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So we´re in this little city of 600,000 people, having spent the day at a series of tours at the local electrometalurgical plant after a series of nights with fewer than five hours of sleep (last night was the record so far at 3 hours), and now after two bottles of wine we think [...]
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Just a quick note to let you know that Bryan, Jen, Beth and I, as well as the GSE group from Buenos Aires, made it to Boise safely today around 11am. Don is still traveling in Argentina until next Friday. Look forward to a final blog from each of us in the coming week.
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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 – [...]
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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 of [...]
Trip to Iguazu Falls.
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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 the [...]
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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 we [...]
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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 were originally [...]
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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 the [...]
