Tango Lessons and Boliche

On Friday I got up and had a couple of cups of coffee before heading to class.   My friends and I were not the only students who hadn’t gotten enough sleep the night before.  It was bad enough that the teacher sent us on a break early so that we would all go get more [...]

Tango Show

Thursday ended up being quite the long day.  I got up and went to class.  There has been this freak cold snap in Buenos Aires.  At first I thought I had just underestimated how cold the winter here was going to be, but I guess that this is unusually cold here.  It is so unusual [...]

Come back tomorrow!

I don’t have time to write an entire post tonight.  Today I went to class; and then we went to see  las madres de la plaza de mayo.  After that, we went to a tango show.  At the end of the night we ate pizza with an “international” crowd.  There is so much to tell [...]

Close Call

Today started with another 4 hours of Spanish class.  Studying Spanish in another country is so much easier than at home.  Somehow I managed to incorporate yesterday’s lesson magically over night.  I can already tell that it made a huge difference in how I narrate in the past tenses.  I was tired from going out [...]

First Day of Class and Mundo Bizarro Again

Yesterday was a great but day but it started out pretty quietly.  I went to class for the first time; my instructor is really fun.  The 4 hours went by really fast.  I can tell this is the class that I need to be in because we are going to be covering all of the [...]

Quiche and More Quiche

This morning I took the placement exam with about 200 other kids.   We had a written test and then an oral interview.  There are five levels: two basic levels, two intermediate levels, and one advanced.  I tested into the second intermediate level.  Out of approximately 200 there were only 4 in the advanced level and [...]

City Tour!

This morning I had to make my way to the University where I will be studying.  Luciano gave me awesome directions so I didn’t have any problems finding it.  I finally got to meet the other students who are in my program.  We went for a sort of “orientation tour” of the city with our [...]

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Shopping and My First “Asado”

Last night was my first supper with my new “family.”  It was so much fun.  Some of the other students in the house don’t speak as much Spanish and so the students for the most part speak English to each other.  I think that might bother me later since I am here to learn Spanish, [...]

Culture Shock #1: The Bathroom!

 
One of the first things I did upon arriving at my house here in B.A. was shower and use the bathroom, but I had a couple of surprises in store for me.  The shower is tiny!  Like 3 square feet tiny….  It works a lot like any tub-shower in the U.S.  First, you turn to [...]