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Thursday, July 20, 2006

Argentina!

¡Hola! ¿Como estás? Hehe I will change back to english now. As many of you know, I am presently in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Which has been referred toby some as the 'other side of the pond'. It is a very large pond, as it took me 14 hours to fly accross it! And it took my luggage longer, my bag had a loely time taking in the sights of Madrid airport. But I will forgive my bag this once as it decided to take the next plane out and join me here! (The last couple of sentences translated mean that I had to wait 24 hours for my bags to arrive as they didnt get put on the madrid to BA flight due to delays from london)
And then I arrived and was driven to my new abode, a very nice one it is at that. It is an area called Las Cañitas. (Ooooh this keyboard has fancy keys on it, it has a key that does this: ñ and this: ç isn't that cool! Except I keep pressing them by mistake cos they are in places where other things should be normally. I will have to learn to use argentinian keyboards!) Anyway, i have a very nice flatmate, she bought me a mug for my arrival isn't that sweet. I think it is!
Today its the day of friends here, and I was looking for things to buy her, but I couldn't find anything, I just ended up buying myself lots of stuff, which really wasn't the plan! It isn't even stuff that I can give to her! Silly Sophie! Ohh well!
Today I went into the centre of BA, to see the main sites. The pink house in the Plaza de mayo is cool. Its where all the presidents waved to enthusastic argentinians, and where Madonna pretended to be Evita!

Thats all for now, speak to you all soon!

6 Comments:

  • Not that I really know Spanish, but shouldn't that be "(upside down question mark) Como estaís?", above?

    By Blogger Hele, at 7/20/2006 11:27 pm  

  • Gosh. Argentina. How exciting! What's the weather like?

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 7/21/2006 11:36 am  

  • ¿comó estais? I would use if I were using the vosotros (plural of you) form, however I was using the tú (singualr of you) form, which incidentally they don´t use in Argentina, they use vos and accentuate the verb differently hence the accent on the a in estás. It is quite possible that I have it all horribly wrong, my spanish is far from perfect! But well spotted helen!

    And for the other helen, because I am in the southern hemisphere, it is winter here, grrr! But it hasn't been that cold, around 15 degrees so far, which i am told is unusually high for this time of year, so I must have brought some good weather with me! Yippee!

    By Blogger sophie, at 7/21/2006 5:33 pm  

  • Happy Friends Day!

    By Blogger Kirsten, at 7/23/2006 12:29 pm  

  • Wow, exciting. Will there be some photos upon your return?

    By Blogger FreeWildebeest, at 7/23/2006 9:29 pm  

  • I would prefer photos before your return! A whole year is a long time to wait! Te he!

    Hello argentina!

    :)

    By Blogger JAJ, at 8/24/2006 2:25 pm  

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