To live and learn

Things I Should Have Thought More Deeply About Before Coming

1. Argentine's pronounce everything with a ll or a y with a "sha." PLAYA is said "PLY-sha"
2. There's always some major industry going on strike to throw a big fat wrench in your plans
3. Winter is cold. Cold and rainy.
4. The typical Argentine eats, sleeps, breathes, and lives to consume Argentine Beef

Looking back on my reasons for taking this trip was to live and learn Spanish (at least thats what I tell at least 5 people a day). People ask "what are you doing here?" and after a while I started to really understand why I had come. I'm not on vacation, I'm not taking classes in Spanish, estoy viviendo. I arrived, I got a job, I got another job, I got an apartment and as of now I work for 3 English institutes and teach 13 classes a week in 4 different parts of Buenos Aires. I hope to travel more in August, but for now these photos and this blog will mostly consist of things that I have wandered upon by going from class to class or getting lost as I tend to do no matter what country I'm in. So far BsAs has shown me all the things I thought it would and more. On the other hand, it also leaves me longing to travel the rest of South America and see something that doesn't look like a city...