Bouncing Around

Monday, July 12, 2010

Saliendo en un ....

Yo yo peeps - I can now greet you in English for I am a measly 24 hours away from touching down in that spicy food cravers castle, efficient line having heaven, feces free fairytale, sun shiny secret garden that is the U.S. Actually I'll be in miami for 2 days which I still contest is more a pais of the Caribbean than it is of the Estados Unidos. Don't get my wrong, I have gown to truly care for BA, maybe even love it, but I won't ever be able to completely shake out that warm cozy feeling I get when I think about going to the supermarket and purchasing the good I want all within the same hour. I am excited to go home for 3 reasons.

1. The food, one of the great storyarchs of this here blog has been my craving and intermittent fulfillment of spicy and tasty food. It exists here but only for the truly strong of will and tenacious of heart.

2. My family and friends. I've made many good friends here and met un monton of people I enjoy to be around, but it's always nice to devolver back to the peeps who've known you since day 1, and continue to talk to you.

3. I won't be working for 3 weeks! I've never held a straight up 40 hour a week job and over the past half year I've really been busting my arse, I don't really know if I should be taking these 3 weeks off but, whoops, here they are.

3.5. Lake Minnetonka and Cable - Lake partying and hanging is the best thing to do in the world besides running for your life across a continent with only your knapsack and wits to keep you alive.

I got some awesome pics of our awesome trip to this awesome place called Cordoba. We ended up traveling outside the city for the most part, but these little day adventures proved to be ahhh...awesome. I'm going to be at the Miami airport for a while so I'll post some pics and try and find some new apps to make viewing them easier tomorrow.

To to you my deliriously dedicated readers I bid you adieu. And to you Buenos Aires, BAIRES, BA, BsAs or the port town of good winds I say "Hasta luego , por ahora. Ya nos vemos"

Saliendo means leaving...on a jet....

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Zee Alemanians

Buenas amigos - Hello everyone, I hope your loves and locations are passing you well. I am currently writing you from the middle to upper low middle-class barrio of villa crespo. I have been bouncing around my various friends various sleeping surfaces since last wednesday, and have eventually ended up in the spare room of my good friend Dr. Hromadka. (Actually it is his owner's spare room, to whom I have to pay rent (yes rent for 4 days, didn't see it coming but you know it is completely fair and to be expected, this isn't the states where your friends are the owners or full on renters of their living quarters, here in Argeland we are renting from owners directly, who generally live in the same apartment, so of course they would expect money from some pale skinned basketball shorts-in-winter-wearing yanqui) yep double parentheses)

Anyway I am moving around so much because I am making moves, tomorrow I am off to Cordoba. Click here to see a map and read about it - unless you want a poorly articulated and fairly fictional description in which case keep reading.

Cordoba, Argentina - The second largest city in Argentina, weighing in at about 1.3 million. Is in mas o menos the direct geographical center of the country (putting it in the heart of the Pampas...mini lesson on pampas? ----The Pampas are the bountiful plains in between the eastern banks of the atlantic and the sharp foothills of the Andes in the west. Here is the land of the Gaucho (Argentine Cowboy) where grand estancias (ranches) were built by the tippity-top of the Italian and Spanish aristocracy first arriving in the then Spanish port city of Buenos Aires. Wide, vast, part desert, part cultivated land. It's a big assed plain that was home to many native tribes before the "Desert Campaign" in the 1870's when an Argentine General "assisted in the moving of the natives." I'm sure that assistance was similar to that of our forefathers friendly frictionless foray into the native centers of North America --- Phew, so, Cordoba is in the middle of all that stuff. Built around the idea of education, housing the most important universities in the history of the country and producing many of it's top leaders in industry, government, and ..sociology....Just kidding we all know people only take those courses in college for an easy A. Today the city still stands as an educational hub, growing to a formidable size within the country.

I'm hoping that like any good old college town, though this city is a little bigger than Boulder, there will be plenty of good late night burrito shacks, a main strip of bars, and plenty of perusing intellectuals to quiz me on Bruce Willis movies. I am excited for the trip because traveling is fun, traveling with 7 of your good friends is fun, but taking the 10 hour bus and dominating your own hostel room with your 7 friends is ahh, well, fun. We were planning on renting a 8 person van and conduciendo alla (driving there(it's fun to learn while reading nonsense in a blog huh?)), but those bastards over at Hertz must not understand the effects that decades of greedy and single minded dictatorships have on the economy of a country, cause damn that Dodge Sprint 9 seater was expensive.

So yes tomorrow we go to Cordoba, then I'm back sleeping --ahh, somewhere--still need to work that one out (got a 10 hour bus ride sunday to send out some group texts) then flying to Miami Int. monday, sleeping there for a day then finally, if you can believe it, one of the Cloyd Srs. will be picking me up at the suffocatingly humid MPLS INTL airport at midnight wednesday. Then I'll blow all the pesos I've saved on one night at uptown roof tops. I'll upload some pics during my 27 hour hiateus at Miami airport. I may also vent some emotions, both positive and vexed, about the abundance of fast food at the airport.

Stay Safe, Stay Clean, Go Spain, Go green, If you have a couch to sleep on in the greater Buenos Aires area this coming Sunday, avisame porfa.

Alemania = Germany en espanol. Ze germans beat the argentines in the quarterfinals last Saturday. So darn efficient they are.

Nos Vemos

Friday, July 2, 2010

Mendozin' It

The 100 Greatest Movie Insults of All Time

Cudiado hay palabras fuerte aca.
Caution people there may be some language unfit for those who find unfit language offensive. Though I think the best ones are without those profane tongue twisters. Enjoy.




What you just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard, everyone in this room is now stupider after having heard that. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.