jueves, 18 de diciembre de 2008

You Say Goodbye, and I say Hello

People come and go so quickly here. Just within the past week, I have said one too many goodbyes to new friends. My sadness is shortlived, however, as each day I meet someone new who is here for adventure and ready to explore the wonderful culture of Buenos Aires. The past couple days can easily be described as un gran quilombo--a huge mess. The SAE clubhouse made its big move to the new place two blocks down the street on Wednesday, and now that we are there it is temporarily closed due to ongoing construction. And that's just the beginning! I would continue to divulge the gory details of work-related stress, but there are too many other great things going on, so instead I will focus on the positive. Amidst the big SAE clubhouse move I also had to find a new place to live--within 24 hours. After filtering through various craigslist posts and emails, I had it down to three places within the San Telmo area to go and see. Potential apartment #1: very nice & modern, cool roommates and cute dogs, a definite possibility but a little beyond my budget. Potential apartment #2: waaaaay too long of a walk into the Barracas area, very affordable, cross-eyed landlady. Potential apartment #3: they say third times a charm, right??
My new home on Uspallata sits on a quiet street near Parque Lezama and only a twenty minute walk from work. I have 4 very awesome roommates who come from Peru to Australia and we all speak spanish to eachother. It's a pretty spacious place with a comfortable living room and three terraces. Yes people, 3. And at the top of the third sits a lovely parilla all ready for asados. And you can't live in Argentina without having an asado, which is exactly why we had one last night! This is no ordinary cookout, my friends. The asado process takes various hours of preparing los carbones (coals) and getting them just right for the meat. And the only way to achieve the perfect asado is through the help of porteno experts, which is exactly why we invited our neighbors-Yogi and his roommate. After a few rounds of meat, sausage, and bread, our bellies were full and mostly everyone in a sedentary state. But those of you who know me very well know that my night is not complete without a little something more. So what was there left to do?? Salsa dance, of course!


Now I have to say that my favorite part of the evening (or morning) would have to be when two of my new roommates, Paola and Kira, joined me in dancing and singing our hearts out to my absolute favorite salsa song of all time, "Lloraras" by Oscar de Leon.


Life is good.





1 comentario:

Josh and Kate dijo...

Okay so no one has written on your blog. I am new to "blogging" considering I don't have facebook or myspace or anything like this that might give my identity away, haha. It looks like you are having quite the experience and I am so happy for you. I don't expect to see you back in the states so send me your address so I can come visit! *smile* But really, give me your address and I will try to send you a care package. Anything you might particularly want? Oh...and MERRY CHRISTMAS!! okay okay I will say it in Spanish...Feliz Navidad!