¡Bailamos!

The past couple of days have seen a LOT of dancing.. The milonga on Tuesday night was really fun, and now I wanna take tango lessons more than ever!  The place was cool.  It looked like an old cathedral from the outside and was just a big room inside with tables around a dance floor.  Everything was soaked in red light.  After the lesson, people just danced and there were a couple of pairs that were SO incredible that it was a pleasure to watch them... We also saw a tango band who played and sang together and the music was great too.

Tango at La Catedral

Wednesday was work and lunch (at around 6pm!) with Catherine.  After lunch we got REALLY good ice cream at Freddo's, a chain ice cream place in BsAs. YUM.  At work, I did some research on publishing companies in the US to help one of our partner firms that does printing.. My boss also set up a meeting for me with one of our partner tech firms for Thursday. So on Thursday, I got up early and went to the office of this tech firm, which is sadly a bit farther than my current job but not too bad, especially by NYC commute standards.  The meeting went well, and the guys that I met with want me to come work with them to perform a market analysis of this one product in the US.  I think it'll be interesting, since I haven't done too much marketing work yet, and since I'll really be able to help them because I speak English.  So we decided that Mon & Wed afternoons, I'll work there and on Tuesday mornings I'll work with my company.  Hopefully it'll be interesting!

Tango

On Thursday I met up for café and a snack with Eva by her house and then went salsa dancing with Ben! It was a lot of fun. We went to a club called Azucar (translates to Sugar), which is where the salsa class was.  The funny thing is, we didn't realize there were different levels, so we just joined the class -- AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL! No wonder we were so horrible! I had never even taken a salsa class in my life, and here I was spinning and twisting and what have you.  By the time we figured out that we were in the highest level class it was a bit too late to join the intermediate one, but we gave it a shot anyway and it was a little easier.  We teamed up to try to get the intermediate steps (at the advanced level, we kept switching partners.  It must've been so frustrating for the guys I danced with!! OOPS!)... Will have to do that again.  Later, Eva and I went to Prólogo again but, once again, it was the end of the night, not a prologue.  Maybe it's an unlucky place. Or maybe it was so dead last night cause of the rain (the weather's been pretty crappy the past two days).

Tango singers

Today I slept in and then went to the Road office with Catherine to buy tickets to go to Colonia, Uruguay. We're really excited! It's supposed to be a really charming and quaint town that still feels colonial and small.  We were gonna go to Montevideo, the capital, on Saturday night and stay until Sunday, but instead decided to go to a fútbol game on Sunday!  It's gonna be a packed weekend...

Tonight I'm going out to about 3 different places (maybe) but I have to figure out my timing so that I can wake up tomorrow to make our 9am Buquebus, which is a ferry that takes us to Colonia.  Pictures to come soon!

Singers

Funny dresses on Santa Fe