Well, tomorrow's the day, everybody.  My flight leaves tomorrow night at 8:15-- or should, G-d willing, because it is entirely possible that it will be canceled or delayed due to volcanic ash.  Yes, from the volcano that erupted in Chile over a month ago.  It's incredible and potentially infuriating, but the forecast for tomorrow night is clear, so ( Read more... )

I AM DONE!  Junior year is OVER as of an hour and a half ago.  We presented our group project to our professor, who loved the idea I'd come up with, and we passed with flying colors.  Yay!

I'm filling my last few days here with tours of landmarks (Teatro Colón, Café Tortoni, Museo Evita, Templo Libertad, and the Catedral) and afternoons in cafés ( Read more... )

So, to finish off my last weekend in Argentina (WHAT) I went to see a real Argentine play, a phrase which here means "not Shakespeare in translation."  Now, I had been duly warned by my cousins that Argentine plays are "muy argentina," but I heartily mistrusted this advisement, because it had seemed to me like it shouldn't matter what language ( Read more... )

Suddenly, my time in Argentina is winding down to a close.  I turned in my research paper a while back, and had the oral presentation of the abstract yesterday, which went really well; had my Peronism exam last week, which I also feel really good about; am just about done with my share of the Organization of Special Events group project.  Once we ( Read more... )

Hello!  I am newly back from my weekend trip to Montevideo, Uruguay.  I was staying with my cousins, and we had a really wonderful time.  To be honest, I didn't think much of the city.  It was sort of like a smaller, dirtier, poorer version of Buenos Aires, with far fewer interesting cultural landmarks-- but the trip was still worthwhile, because I ( Read more... )

When I got back from Iguazú, I took a look at the calendar and thought, "I have one month left in Argentina!  When did THAT happen?"  So I came up with a list of Things I Can't Leave Without Seeing/Doing.  Several of us have similar bucket lists, and I am going about attacking mine with an initiative I call "Do Something Awesome Every Day."  I ( Read more... )

Tonight I went to see the new X-Men movie with a friend.  (Point of interest: this was not my first exposure to X-Men; I recently took Jared's suggestion to watch some of the animated series, and I like it a lot, so far.)  Here's the funny anecdote related to seeing this movie ( Read more... )

Iguazú Falls is an absolutely unbelievable place.  Everyone needs to go there at some point of their lives.  I just got back, and I'm pretty zonked from the return trip-- 18 hours in a bus!-- but it was absolutely worth it.

( Puerto Iguazú: the smallest city I've ever been to )

After three agonizing months of research pretty much without any help whatsoever, I have finally finished the first draft of my Directed Research paper, which is 6 credits of my semester in the past tense.  HOO-rah, as Caitlin would say.

( This paper was a pain in the ass to get together, but I did it. )

Feliz Día de la Patria, everyone!  Today is one of Argentina's two (yes, two) independence days.  201 years ago today, the Argentine people declared independence from Spain; the other independence day is July 9, the anniversary of the Congreso de Tucumán, where they... declared independence from Spain... apparently, again.  (I don't really get it ( Read more... )