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  Rosario, Argentina
Thursday, October 2, 2008

So I´m on my sister Julia´s computer in our apartment right now.  My computer hooks up to the internet, has full wireless internet connection, and hooks up to AOL instant messanger and Skype, but does NOT work with Internet Explorer, AOL Explorer (a different internet browswer program), or my iTunes store.  WHY??? So I can get the internet on my computer, but just can´t do anything with it.  And Skype works, so I´m obviously connected.  But my internet explorer and iTunes store don´t work.  Grrrr.

And Julia loaned me her connector for my memory card for my camera.  Now I´ll be able to upload some more photos.  Thank you, Julia.

I´ve got my little routine going on here in the big bad city of Rosario, and I´m enjoying it.  I have class practically all day on Monday and Tuesday, then only for a few hours on Wednesday and Thursday.  Thursday, between classes, I´ll probably always be at Tae Bo.  The teacher, Sebastian, is really nice, like I´ve said before, and he remembers me every time he sees me, even outside of class (like on the street!).  And I thought he was gay, but I just saw him the other day with his 1 1/2-year-old daughter and a wedding ring.  I think he´s very straight and very married now.

So a while ago I posted a picture of graffiti on the walls, and one of a bicycle graffiti´ed on the wall.  These ¨bicycles¨ are everywhere, and I learned about them in class today.  Apparently people paint them on the walls to commemorate one of the ¨disappeared,¨ as they call the 30,000 people who were taken and killed by the government about 30 years ago.  So, as you can imagine, there´s a lot of these bikes all over the place.  And now I´m sad every time I see them. 

Last night all the ¨international students¨ (us guys here) had the opportunity to listen to a seminar by a famous lawyer from Rosario.  It was about 1 1/2 hours long, and VERY interesting.  Over the topic of human rights.  It was completely in Spanish, and I understood a good portion of it.  There´s some kids that went, though, that speak barely any Spanish, and I don´t think they got anything out of it.  Oh well.  It was a good opportunity.

It finally rained!  It´s actually been raining since Sunday, and it´s lovely to see everything turning green.  Finally.  Rain?  Fabulous.  Their sidewalks here + rain?  Less than fabulous.  I decided to wear flip-flops on Monday, and when I left for school, it was NOT raining.  But when I left school to go to lunch, it was raining and very wet. Some bright engineer decided to make all the sidewalks here out of TILE.  Wet tile in flip flops?  Forget about it.  Like trying to walk on ice.  I actually had to have two people hold me up just to get to the school cafeteria, and I used the hook on the end of my umbrella to grab onto things and pull myself along.  Comical, THEY all said.  Stupid, I said.

Tomorrow is the last day of school this week, and then the weekend.  YAY!!! I´ll try to write more soon.  Take care, all!

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my tango face	beautiful gals at the tango fiesta	the ceiling in the stairwell at our school	windows in the stairwell... no, it´s not a church.
the stairwell	mom makes yummy lemon pie	empanadas galore... mmmmm...	my family on Francisco´s 54th birthday!!!
the puppies on my way to school	they make me late all the time :)

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