In our second week here in Cordoba - big city of about 1.4 mil. We are staying in a one bedroom furnished apartment above a panadaria where we get our morning pastries each day. Our gestures and broken spanish is now well understood by the woman there and our order goes very smoothly these days. We have a small kitchen which is well used after 3 months of dining out. Simply making our own coffee in the morning is great and we eat dinner in every night!
We are back in school for a week of spanish lessons trying to pick up the differences in the language here in Argentina. People speak must faster here than in Bolivia, Peru and Ecuador, and the pronunciations and accents here are throwing us off. So... our mornings from 9 to 12:30 we spend with Carlos and Analee at Hablame. Lunch either at our apartment or out-n-about while walking the streets and getting to know the city.... we put a deposit on a bigger place to stay for the end of October, November & December. I't a 2 bedroom apartment on the 20th floor with a balcony and views to the East over the zoo and park. It's not above a bakery, but at 20 floors it wouldn't matter if it was. The
girls are excited about the balcony and to be off the trundle-couch and into a bedroom.
For the next several weeks we will be taking a "vacation from the vacation" in Montevideo and Buenos Aires with my folks who will be here for 2 weeks. Dos mas Vancesinsouthamerica!
It is exciting to be moving again. Life in the city is a bit slow for long periods of time. Spanish classes have helped but I don't feel like a tourist in this town. On the weekends we sleep in without any pressure to get out since we will be here for a while. In our free afternoons we find ourselves in the apartment not doing much....... reading, drinking mate, playing charango, surfing the net, eating pastries and folding oragami frogs (in Argentina). We will have to pick up the pace a bit when we get back from holiday - at least it will be a further walk to get pastries.
We are back in school for a week of spanish lessons trying to pick up the differences in the language here in Argentina. People speak must faster here than in Bolivia, Peru and Ecuador, and the pronunciations and accents here are throwing us off. So... our mornings from 9 to 12:30 we spend with Carlos and Analee at Hablame. Lunch either at our apartment or out-n-about while walking the streets and getting to know the city.... we put a deposit on a bigger place to stay for the end of October, November & December. I't a 2 bedroom apartment on the 20th floor with a balcony and views to the East over the zoo and park. It's not above a bakery, but at 20 floors it wouldn't matter if it was. The
girls are excited about the balcony and to be off the trundle-couch and into a bedroom.For the next several weeks we will be taking a "vacation from the vacation" in Montevideo and Buenos Aires with my folks who will be here for 2 weeks. Dos mas Vancesinsouthamerica!
It is exciting to be moving again. Life in the city is a bit slow for long periods of time. Spanish classes have helped but I don't feel like a tourist in this town. On the weekends we sleep in without any pressure to get out since we will be here for a while. In our free afternoons we find ourselves in the apartment not doing much....... reading, drinking mate, playing charango, surfing the net, eating pastries and folding oragami frogs (in Argentina). We will have to pick up the pace a bit when we get back from holiday - at least it will be a further walk to get pastries.
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