Archive for the ‘Argentina’ Category

March 4th, 2010 - 12:04 pm § in Argentina, Around Town, Tips & Resources

Not Too Far Gone

I’ve kind of been out of action for a while, so excuse the long gap between posts. But after crossing the six month mark in Argentina, the novelty has worn off and the differences between a volunteer life and a professional life have started to blur, and I feel further and further removed from my [...]

February 26th, 2010 - 4:24 pm § in Argentina, Culture, Day in the Life

Day in the Life: Gualeguaychú Carnival, Argentina

Last weekend, myself and ten other volunteers rented a mini-van to venture from our temporary homes in Córdoba to the province of Entre Rio to experience the grand spectacular Carnival parade, the largest such event in Argentina. Stocked up with our favorite local Bon o Bon chocolates and other tr[...]

February 12th, 2010 - 12:58 pm § in Argentina, Careers

Why We Do What We Do

“Why are you here?” she asked. My Spanish teacher, who is equally perplexed on how I “forget” to pronounce all vowels in each word, asked our group of beginning Spanish speakers why we traveled from Sweden, USA and Ireland to volunteer in Cordoba, Argentina. Maybe, she questi[...]

February 3rd, 2010 - 6:43 pm § in Argentina, Guatemala, Tips & Resources

Seeing the World in New Ways

Every month we’ll be posting an entry from a guest contributor who has some advice, resources, information and/or inspiration they want to share. This month’s guest contributor is Tom Hemingway. Tom Hemingway has explored the outer limits of Latin America from the U.S. to Argentina through many [...]

February 2nd, 2010 - 12:17 pm § in Argentina, Day in the Life

Talk to Me!

It’s hot. No really.  It’s hot.  Maybe 10 years living along the ocean in Southern California has erased my memories of summers in the U.S. Midwest and East Coast, but since my arrival to Córdoba, Argentina this week I can concentrate on little else but the heat. Although summer in t[...]

January 22nd, 2010 - 10:29 am § in Argentina

Arriving Just In Time

I left home days before the calendar changed from 2009 to 2010. A date I vacillated upon for weeks, finally ticketing my flight three weeks before departure (despite daily ridicule from friends and colleagues). I couldn’t decide whether to give myself more time to finish projects at home where I [...]

January 15th, 2010 - 11:08 pm § in Argentina, Culture

Mate Makes Amigos

One of the best ways I’ve found to bond with Argentinians is over a helping of mate. Mate is the local tea that, it is said, just about all Argentinians drink, though after spending enough time here, you quickly learn that the idea of drinking it all day is more of a myth. Some don’t [...][...]

December 18th, 2009 - 12:58 pm § in Argentina, Around Town, Careers

Day in the Life: G to the R to the E in Bs to the As

If you’ve been following along then you’re familiar with the fact that I’ve been working hard here in Buenos Aires, not only at my job but studying for the Graduate Record Examination, or GRE. This is the entrance exam similar to the SAT, but for grad school. Months of painful stud[...]

December 16th, 2009 - 11:03 am § in Argentina, Volunteer Spotlight

Volunteer Spotlight: Facing Paco in Buenos Aires

Jennifer Yael Green is a writer and traveler who most recently spent a year as an English instructor in South Korea.  To paraphrase Benjamin Franklin, she lives her life striving to write something worth reading, or to do something worth writing about. She spent several months volunteering in a [...]

December 1st, 2009 - 12:11 pm § in Argentina, Around Town, Volunteer

Would It All Be Worth It If…?

I heard some sad news on Saturday night. A very good friend of mine from my volunteer program in Ecuador had to rush home to be by her brother’s side. He was sick with swine flu and pneumonia, and on Friday night he passed away. Lauren and I were placed at the same university in [...][...]





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