Esplendor Savoy Rosario

... og kostet bare 220 pesos!! (450NOK) Utrolig!! Laa der med ipoden i orene og Muse paa full guffe, det hjalp det :):) I kveld er vaar siste kveld i Rosario, i morgen tidlig tar vi bussen tilbake til BA, og paa lordag i aatte-ni-tiden reiser vi videre til Lima! Gruer meg til aa ta paa meg sekken etter tatoveringen :/ tror jeg faar kaste ut noenting saa den ikke blir saa tung, evt donere bort til lene og maria! Gaar nok bra!

... in Spanish, and am working on that. It´s taking me a while-- read 3 words, look up 2 words. I bought it last week, and I´m already in the middle of the 3rd page. But I know it´s going to help me. My management class is all right-- kind of boring, and only 2 of us in the class. Talk about being put on the spot. All the time. My marketing class is fabulous. The professor is great, and incredibly humorous. Half the two-hour class is pure ...

... Protests continue every day, STILL... they line up tires in the roads and set them on fire to protest ANYTHING) Not long after, nearly 30,000 young people disappeared one day and were never seen again. People obviously believe that these university students were tortured and killed by the government. In any case, they eventually found this building that had been a torture chamber in Rosario where the government had taken and kept many ...

... on purchasing a twin set for your wife, and a whole chapter on 'at the bull fight'), and if they didn´t get what I was saying, they did their best to say it for me, with actions included....so we´re learning spanish fast! After four days in Buenos Aires, walking the city up down back and over, it was time to move on. The city is vast - 12 million people live here - and is bursting at the seams. Even in winter, the life there is ...

... only fine drizzle, but we took to the streets again and visited the apartment building, which was home to a young Che Guevara in the late 1920s. A great looking building with fancy apartments in it, but only a penant outside to indicate that Guevara lived there. Met a young Argentinian guy, proud of his city and who marked loads of places on our city map that we should visit - but hey, it´s still raining, so we went for a steak lunch instead!

... single gringo or gringa in any of the places I go except on the streets and in the hostel! It is great! But I can see lots and lots of tourist traps and ways of getting people to part with their money that I am sure most guide following tourists will fall for and get a tacky tourist version of Buenos Aires! Like the couple who paid over 10 Euro to see a staged Tango show with a lot of other tourists! I paid less than 5 euro and got a lesson, free show by local couples all ...

... I tell him I can`t make it out tonight. Sucks. He writes back "stop drinking so much John, ......" Hah, John. I lay on the couch in the hostel and watch movies. I Spy with Owen Wilson is on and for some reason this guy cracks my ass up and makes me feel better, that is until I decide to stand up. I never did puke which is good since I hate puking but I probably should have upchucked last night as I would have felt better today. I tell myself I ...

... the bags went to the terminal ATM. Incredibly, it only took Banelco and not Visa! We drove over to the Shopping but found the same problem there. Finally, we found a bank that accepted Visa and I got the money I needed. I gave money to Toyo for the impending baggage shipment. He dropped me off at the terminal and we said good-bye. I really like that guy. Carlos had arrived to see us off so he and Elena spent their last half hour together, tearfully, in each other's arms ...

... to break some. Rosario's a river city and we decided to walk towards it and see what we could find. A beautiful monument to the future, all lit up and looking like a ship sailing from the city, and an angry mob of mosquitoes out for turns out to be it, and we only took a few minutes to stare at the murky water before admitting defeat and scampering to the heladeria for a little ice cream dessert, then bed. Cookies for breakfast! Mom's not here to stop us ...

... city of BUENOS AIRES at 9am in the huuuuuuuuuuuge single bus station. From there I eagerly zipped down to my hostel where I would be reunited with my fave 2 Peru-Bolivia tucan tour trip buddies aka irish clover sisters Michelle and Lisa Toner.... was so cool.. unfortunately the staff at the hostel were ###### and rooms were full up so my reservation made day before was lost by default.... so hunted for another party hostel across road and after 2 attempts, got ...