It’s not a terribly easy transition to make. I’m still kind of poor, but in a more expensive city, making less money than when I was a volunteer, and working twice as much. But office life is totally different from teaching, and in some ways it’s better. For example, if I don’t feel like talking in front of a group of people that day, no sweat. But I will say that it’s nice to have a break in between classes and be able to walk around, whereas with a one hour lunch break, you really don’t have that same opportunity to enjoy the day.

Life is most certainly different here in Argentina, and though it’s on the same continent as Ecuador, it’s like a different world. Those who haven’t been to other countries in Latin America refer to it in certain ways and think of how different it is. For me though, coming from a small city in Ecuador, this is like many other mechanical, metropolitan cities I’ve been to. And I’m now one of those cogs moving in the machine. But hey, at least I don’t have to wear a tie.