It SNOWED. Monday it snowed in Buenos Aires for the first time in 90 years and I was in the flippin jungle and I missed it.


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So I was in the Plaza de Mayo just now, helping out the Madres and running away from palomas, when somebody calls my name - and it's one of my professors from Pacific! Out of control! She is here with her son and husband, doing research. What a tiny little world. It made me super happy to see them ( Read more... )

I was walking to the laundromat by my house today, and I thought, hm. It smells weirder than usual today. Went to the laundromat, picked up my clothes, and when I got back to the weird-smelling spot, it was chaos! And madness! Cause the building was on fire! There were firemen with their hoses and trucks and running about and yelling. Out of ( Read more... )

Do you think Ray LaMontagne knows that Spokane rhymes with neither rain, cocaine, nor flame?

Why do both the words “incredible and “unbelievable” exist in English? They mean exactly the same thing. Only “increíble” exists in Spanish.

Is there a weight limit for carry-on luggage? There is no way I’m going to be able to take home the 47384 books I’ ( Read more... )

Welp. I have a paper due on Tuesday. It is Sunday, and I am done with it. I think this is the first time this has ever happened. I'm not sure what to do with myself. So here are some stories about strange men, buses, and strange men on buses.

Two American girls in my class were talking about how they were going to write this paper the night before, ( Read more... )

"The Science of Sleep" opens today! I've been waiting like ten months for this movie to come out here. I think you can already buy the DVD imported from the US, but whatev. I don't have a DVD player. Or a TV, for that matter. I'm excited. The last couple movies I've seen have been crap. Although, I finally saw "Todo Sobre mi Madre" yesterday, and I ( Read more... )

Today on the subte a guy tried to rob me. Exciting! I had forty-five centavos, two pesos and my ipod in my pocket, and I went to put them in my bag and there was already a hand in my pocket. It freaked me out a little bit. Then I turned around to stare at the guy and basically everybody else on the train was staring at him too. HA! That's what I ( Read more... )

The subtes are on a strike, the buses are delayed and overflowing, it took me an hour and a half to get to class and I spent forty-five minutes of it squashed against a groundhog-looking man who breathed on me, all the apples are mealy, I'm 85% certain that the laundromat is bit by little bit stealing all my socks, I have five papers to write, my ( Read more... )

This weekend I went to Entre Rios with the Flacso kids and it was pretty ridiculous, but our kind of ridiculous. We stayed in old boxcars that had been converted into cabins, and I for one was kind of excited to be Boxcar Children for a weekend. This place was supposed to be a wildlife reserve, but the only wildlife that we saw were sheep, cows, ( Read more... )

Oh man when did it become May? This is the wierdest May ever. It's getting colder instead of warmer, and I'm not wildly stressed out by finals... seeing as I've got two months of school left. Blah.

In the time since I posted last, the fam came and visited, which was pretty sweet. My mom decided that since panaderias sell pan and cervezerias sell ( Read more... )