July 2011
6 posts
Life in Salta
Thursday
Classes again… This time a gauncho came into class and showed us his musical instruments and some of the native dances from around the area and to top things off I got a nice pan flute out of it.
After the class I went to my grandparents house in the suburbs near Phil for my little sister (Juliana´s) birthday party. It was great and there was a lot of good food. The best...
Note on Spelling
I´m not normally very good at spelling… and all of the spell checkers in Tumblr are in Spanish here… So forgive the spelling. I`m doing my best.
B.A. to Salta
When we arrived in the other part of town I was able to meet with kids that were learning English at a school in BA. There we learned about how they live and what they do everyday and how much it differs from our daily lives. For example: they stay up till 2AM on school nights and 4-5AM on normal days. Its a crazy life that doesn’t seem to end… Although I think I could get used to...
More Argentinian stuff...
On the 30th of June we continued our tour of Buenos Aires. In the morning we visited a neighborhood called Recoleta and there we went to one of the oldest graveyards in the country with presidents and others buried there. (Eva Peron)(Legit) Then we went to another neighborhood where we had lunch and then had a scavenger hunt where we had to find different things and make our way to a different...
A week in Argentina...
After arriving in Buenos Aires my group and I met up with Martin and Wanda. Our guides for Buenos Aires. We took a bus back to the hotel (Hotel Reina) and we unpacked and got used to our rooms. After that we were off!!! We went to dinner at a resturant called La Clac and there I had a dish called Milanesas. (probably spelled wrong) After dinner we went back to the hotel and went to sleep.
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Buenos Aires =D
Well… We made it. It was a stressful trip full of delays but in the end we arrived in Buenos Aires. I don´t have much time now but I´ll be sure to talk more later about the wonderful things that we have been doing.
For all that are wondering I have been safe (mother and father)(other members of the family). Darius (our group leader) has been amazing and knows sooo much about the city. ...
June 2011
3 posts
In Miami... Indefinity...
The trip to Chicago went well… An easy flight into another timezone (although it was REALLY cramped). Then I had a 3 hour layover in Chicago only to leave on a kick butt 777 to Miami. But then we hit some problems…
There appearantly was a volcanic eruption in Chile and this is causing a massive problem with our flight. So our plane to Buenos Aires got delayed until tomorrow morning...
Leaving... =/
Its a depressing feeling knowing that you are leaving everything behind but hell, its going to be one of the coolest experiences of my life so I’m going rolling with it. I have everything packed and ready to go. Shout out to my Uncle Mike Connolly who sent me my camping backpack and it is now COMPLETELY full. (I’m going to come back with a strained back. If anyone knows a good...
John in Argentina
I’m setting this up so that I can post and share my experience in Argentina with everyone that wants to follow. I can’t promise that it will be good. But I’ll do my best to keep it updated and full of interesting stuff.
John
