Vivo en Buenos Aires, como lomo, tomo vino tinto y estudio Espanol.

I can't believe its been well over a week since I've written a post.  How quickly time flies when you're into a well established routine.  School is fantastic.  I'm learning bucket loads and growing in confidence with my Spanish every day.  I got my hair cut today (and quite short - its the last time I'll have access to quality stylists for a while) and was able to understand quite a bit of the women's magazines written in Spanish.  Its a welcome change from fumbling whenever you need to interact with people and having to reluctantly ask "Hablas Ingles?" (ie do you speak English).

We haven't done a whole lot to be honest - we're doing an hour's home work nearly every day now - we tend to relax over lunch after class - Bernard walks both to and from class whereas I now only walk the way home - I catch the No 10 colectivo (bus) into school. We've made our necessary reservations into the Patagonia as its terribly busy at this time of year.  Trying to purchase bus tickets for our 28 hour journey from El Calafate to Bariloche was quite an effort, but fortunately we have our tickets in hand, and our seats are luxurious cama (bed) - the equivalent size to flying business class. Don't ask about Brazil - its been a nightmare trying to get visas into the country. We're going to have to make our arrangements from the border in Iguasu as getting an appointment in the consulate in BA is weeks away - time we just don't have.

We have had lots and lots of carne. Its so good and its so cheap - besides pasta and milaneza (beef schnizel) steak is a filling and rather affordable option.  The wine is fantastic - even great wine served in restaurants are aprox $8US a bottle!!!  We're exploring some of the barios of BA - San Telmo to the south - Palermo which is very hip and of course our very own Recoletta which I love.  The weather is so reliable - only one day where the rain spoiled our plans - we went and say Los Poquenos Fockers instead making friends to 80 year old nonnas who needed a little assistance up and down the stairs.

All is well and we've been watching news of the world with incredible interest - floods in Qld and Brazil, another shooting in the States and reports (in the Aussie media) of apparently imminent terrorist activity in the UK (which is remarkably absent from UK media). We are both well, hope that our nearest and dearest are safe and well, and will be in touch again soon.