FootNotes

… and why is he meeting with (the new) President Fernandez?

In this picture released by Argentina’s Presidency, President Cristina Fernandez, right, shakes hands with Spain’s actor Antonio Banderas, center, as he introduces his wife US actress Melanie Griffith at the presidential palace in Buenos Aires, Thursday, Dec. 13, 2007.
(AP Photo/Argentina Presidency)

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December 14th, 2007 | Tags: Antonio Banderas, Argentina, Christina Fernandez, Images | Category: Argentina | Leave a comment

Today, I drove to work in the rain and parked near a low curb, up against the hill. Schenley hill rising slick and green against the gray sky. Trees like sodden torches, leaves carpeting the grass. Stone steps. Marble hallway. Offices quiet and overheated. Pittsburgh has terrible weather, but I [...]

November 3rd, 2007 | Tags: Afria, Argentina, Buenos Aires, Community, Connectivity, Jajah, Philosophy, Pittsburgh, Poetry, South Africa, Technology, United States, VOIP | Category: Africa, Argentina, Philosophy, Pittsburgh, Poetry, Technology, United States | Comments (1)

From Fodor’s
Spring in Buenos Aires is a Culture Vulture’s Delight
Buenos Aires’ non-stop artistic calendar keeps the city’s culture vultures busy and content, and now that spring has arrived in the southern hemisphere, the city is absolutely teeming with cultural offerings for visitors and locals alike.
The city is celebrating Art Week this week with an array [...]

October 5th, 2007 | Tags: Argentina, Buenos Aires, Images, Jewelry | Category: Argentina | Leave a comment

Dear friends, family, and everpatient blog readers. I’ve been Very Very Busy.
Unfortunately, the more fun things i do, the less I tend to blog, and vice versa. This seems to have the (unhelpful) effect effect of rendering my bloggish moments fairly dull….
In any case. For those of you using gmail, here’s a Very [...]

March 27th, 2007 | Tags: Argentina, Images, My Life, Technology | Category: Argentina, My Life, Technology | Comments (1)

To bed at 6am. The first alarm (being an analog clock) went off early.
The second, I never heard, although I found my phone under my covers during the mad scramble to get ready that followed. Was out the door by 9:10 (about an hour after I was supposed to *meet* people) and at the [...]

February 25th, 2007 | Tags: Argentina, Buenos Aires, Kennywood | Category: My Life | Leave a comment

… Sometimes I feel I’m learning more from the other extranjeros than from Argentina/Argentines. Out tonight with an Argentine and his handicapped friend (’brother,’ i thought it was sweet, and trusting of him to bring him along in a group..) an aussie, an irlandes, a brit. expats, all save the argentines, and me, more of [...]

February 25th, 2007 | Tags: Argentina, Diversity, Extranjeros | Category: Argentina | Leave a comment

1) Eggs are not liquid. That’s right, they look like a liquid, but then they’re bad and you go to pour them down the drain and it turns out they’re actually a solid in disguise, and you have to spend lots of time running hot water and hoping you won’t cook the whites [...]

February 16th, 2007 | Tags: Argentina, Buenos Aires, Club, Eggs | Category: Argentina | Leave a comment

Hi again, all. I know it’s the 9th, and not the 5th, but things have been hectic; i’m trying to move, living out of a suitcase, working 5+ hours a day (which somehow feels like a *lot* more than ) and trying to have a social life. Mostly it’s the looking-for-an-apartment bit [...]

February 9th, 2007 | Tags: Argentina, Images, Patagonia, Tanzania | Category: Images | Leave a comment

… J (my host brother) is terribly, terribly hot when he speaks English. It’s almost irritating (!)
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I told him he has a “buen accento” and left it at that…
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… also i have a date tomorrow (with a redheaded Argentine), so wish me luck!!!

January 24th, 2007 | Tags: Argentina, Buenos Aires, Language, Relationships | Category: Argentina, Language | Leave a comment