So things are going very well here in Buenos Aires.  On Wednesday I’m planning to take a ferry over the Rio de la Plata to Colonia de Sacramento in Uruguay for the day.  Believe it or not after being here for more than two weeks I still haven’t really seen the Rio de la Plata, which has an absoltuly huge mouth.  I’ve seen a lot of water that leads to the river, but the view is always blocked by ports or the Ecological Reserve.  The Reserve really is nice now but is actually a former trash dump.

Then on Thursday I’m hoping to head south to Mar del Plata and then come back the next evening.  I’m going to take a train, which I’m excited about because I’ve never been on one before.  Mar del Plata is the beach here that all the porteños go to, so swimming and everything else should be good.

Then I’m going to go to Iguazú Falls on Sunday or Monday, and from there back to Santiago, where it’s back to work for awhile.

I have a couple other things that I would like to point you all in the direction of. First, I would highly recommend reading a short article called “The Day Seattle Stood Still.”  If you love Seattle and you don’t know about the general strike of 1919 and its relation to other important events in our nation’s history then you need to read this.  If you don’t care about these things, then go look anyway because the author has the most hilarious name ever.

The other night when I was trying to fall asleep I was listening to a podcast that I’ve had on my ipod for a while from Bill Moyers’ PBS show Moyers on America.  The episode was called the “Net At Risk“, and if you care about the freedom of the internet, net neutrality, or media issues and aren’t already familiar with these issues in general then you have to listen to this.  It’ extremely important, but please go look for yourself.  The web site with the video and audio as well as several other resources on the subject is here.

So I did go to the Bauen Hotel today like I said, and did some other things, but I’ going to write about those tomorrow.

These have been fun times here in Buenos Aires. So much has happened and I don’t care to write it all here. I have carried my camera to some of my more social escapades and here is a montage of sorts of those experiences.

This is how we spend a lot of our evenings in the hostel when there’s not a lot else going on. From left to right, we have David, Javier, Jonatan, Lara, and myself.
This is Jonatan’s vacation beard. It’s coming off when he gets back to Israel, and he’s going to photograph the four-step process.

This is a group of us out at a club called Opera Bay. It’s the one that looks like the Sydney Opera House that I have a picture of in an older post. Our group was composed of people from Isreal, Germany, French Canada, and myself.
This is what I look like from above.

Last night David, Lara, Jonatan, and I went out for some incredible sushi, and it came out on this:
Too bad David wasn’t fast enough to get the last piece.
Sucker.

This is Juanito, who works at the hostel and speaks several languages fluently but I’m sure is unintelligible in any of them, and Kathia, who is from Brazil and speaks three languages very well. They are both super sweet.

So those are the photo highlights. Here is the link to the set of the rest of these photos

I’m planning on going to go to the Bauen Hotel tomorrow, which is very special and I’ll write about it later. Chau.