After our good sleep in and delicious lunch we went to the ice cream shop :D
Thursday, 22 December 2011
Picnic in the dark :D
St Martin`s is an amazing place that I will blog about soon and the day before last a couple of us went for a picnic in the dark. I don´t know if I have said before but Argentinian´s eat dinner late. 9pm - 12pm and since it was dark when we left, it was late. As mummy knows, Savannah is a very hungry person who loves her dinner at 5:00 pm exactly so how am I dealing with the late dinners? Well, unbelievably it´s great. I don´t understand but here I am so relaxed that I don´t care when I get fed. It´s so weird.
Anyway I had a Pancho - an Argentine hot dog. It involved ham and cheese so it´s like a hot dog in a poncho. That´s where it gets the name from :)
Left: Emilly, Ceci, Marina (also from Brazil) and moi
Girls + Gustavo!
AIESEC Mendoza is mainly boys (especially in ICX which deals with incoming exchange) and as a response... which this in mind- is a connection to why the interns are mainly girls?
Bruno and his brother Renzo, Renzo organised my internship and Juanma!
Axel, it was his birthday the day before
Me and Gustavinho, ´little Gustavo´ in Portugese.
Anyway I had a Pancho - an Argentine hot dog. It involved ham and cheese so it´s like a hot dog in a poncho. That´s where it gets the name from :)
Emilly´s first day in Argentina! They look like sisters don´t they? They are both living at Angie´s little house :) Emily is delightful and even linked arms with me when we first meet, aren´t South Americans warm?
Left: Emilly, Ceci, Marina (also from Brazil) and moi
Girls + Gustavo!
AIESEC Mendoza is mainly boys (especially in ICX which deals with incoming exchange) and as a response... which this in mind- is a connection to why the interns are mainly girls?
Me and Gustavinho, ´little Gustavo´ in Portugese.
Cookin with Emilly :)
My talented and awesome fellow intern from Brazil, Emilly and I made lunch today. Yesterday she made a cheese sauce with pasta and meat for me and it was amazing.
Well today we made a lovely fish and salade ansomble. (Sorry I cannot spell that word but I wanna use it)
Anyway, Emilly cooked the fish with butter and garlic and I made salade with an apple vinegar, olive oil, salt and lemon dressing. I learned that since I arrived here. :)
Lol... we drank a bottle of our favorite beer too :D
Well today we made a lovely fish and salade ansomble. (Sorry I cannot spell that word but I wanna use it)
Anyway, Emilly cooked the fish with butter and garlic and I made salade with an apple vinegar, olive oil, salt and lemon dressing. I learned that since I arrived here. :)
Lol... we drank a bottle of our favorite beer too :D
Fiesturbia de cumple con fin de año y todo junto a la mierda
Hahaha, so as the title suggest - I was invited to a birthday party :)
The word Fiesturbia is a combonation of Fiesta, party, and turbia which is kinda like dirty water. Now the connection between the ideas is... not instant, however knowing the young people it is very slang. As for ´cumple` this is to do with birthday.
So it was Axel´s 21st and I was lucky enough to be there with heaps of AIESEC friends and a young friend of my host mum, Juan Manuel who accompained me. Here is the Fb invite:
At first I had no idea what I was being invited to...
The word Fiesturbia is a combonation of Fiesta, party, and turbia which is kinda like dirty water. Now the connection between the ideas is... not instant, however knowing the young people it is very slang. As for ´cumple` this is to do with birthday.
So it was Axel´s 21st and I was lucky enough to be there with heaps of AIESEC friends and a young friend of my host mum, Juan Manuel who accompained me. Here is the Fb invite:
At first I had no idea what I was being invited to...
Quilmes... tasty beer
My bedtime here in Argentina seems to suit most people. It may have been a Wednesday but as usual we all went out until 2am. Yesterday we went to Arestides street which is the dining place to go to. Every night outside hundreds of people pack the pavement eating.
From Left: Bruno, Juan Cruz and myself
Juanma, 2012 Local Committee President AIESEC Mendoza and awesome Cooparte intern from Brazil, Emilly :)
I`ve been to Extrremo two times now and although I cannot praise their food, the atmosphere is great. It was here I discovered the world`s only good tasting beer (Emilly from Brazil agrees with me totally). It`s called Quilmes and, if you have ever seen me drink beer, you will know it takes me a long time and I don`t hurry to have another one but Quilmes - wow. A beer that actually tastes nice.
On the nonsocial side, I start work at Cooparte next week and my university accredited, month long Spanish course in January :) On the note of Spanish... I`m spoiled here by the number of great English speakers, I really am, so I haven`t been speaking much. However I have been told I have a really good accent (by a few people) and can roll my R`s well which is unusual for an English speaker.
From Left: Bruno, Juan Cruz and myself
Left: Cecillia from Belgium and Gustavo from Brazil (with awesome beer)
Ceci with a Mojito and Gustavo with Quilmes
Juanma, 2012 Local Committee President AIESEC Mendoza and awesome Cooparte intern from Brazil, Emilly :)
I`ve been to Extrremo two times now and although I cannot praise their food, the atmosphere is great. It was here I discovered the world`s only good tasting beer (Emilly from Brazil agrees with me totally). It`s called Quilmes and, if you have ever seen me drink beer, you will know it takes me a long time and I don`t hurry to have another one but Quilmes - wow. A beer that actually tastes nice.
On the nonsocial side, I start work at Cooparte next week and my university accredited, month long Spanish course in January :) On the note of Spanish... I`m spoiled here by the number of great English speakers, I really am, so I haven`t been speaking much. However I have been told I have a really good accent (by a few people) and can roll my R`s well which is unusual for an English speaker.
Tuesday, 20 December 2011
Some pictures from downtown Mendoza
Self explanatory really, however I particularly like the picture of the homeless man, his dog and his trolly. You may be able to see that in his trolly he has put CDs so the headlights of cars will help him be seen. I thought that was rather clever
Me cooking. An alarmingly reoccurring theme
As part of my personal growth and independence seeking, the opportunity to cook has appeared/been thrust upon me. Today's meal I cooked myself was rather gross. I do not blame my cooking (of course not, I'm such a talented chef) but instead the tomato sauce/paste I used. Made my meal taste vinegary... Blah.
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