Maja and I in Buenos Aires
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just being ourselves in that big big city!
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Freitag, 30. November 2007
Maja and I in Buenos Aires
Maja and I in Buenos Aires
Originally uploaded by Turid&Isabell
Donnerstag, 8. November 2007
after spanish class and before diving class
Sitting in an internet café which is truly small, 3 computer, calmer than the other places... I like it. Mouse and chair are bad though.
Time has passed. I have been in BUENOS AIRES!
Friday the 26th we took a bus to Buenos Aires where I stayed until Monday. We met Olivia and Maja there and some touristic days. Walking in the centre, in some very beautiful parts of the city, looking at the old buildings, saw some Tango on the street and we went to different cafés and restaurants. The sun was shining every day but it was not too hot. Enjoyed being somewhere else, talking to the people, just waking up in the morning thinking: What are we going to do today? What do I feel like? We also met up with Daire who is volunteer in a different organisation close to Buenos Aires. On Monday we went with him to his place. After we survived Buenos Aires Subway during Rush Hour with all our luggage!!! Daire is working in a project that is called "Camino Abierto" it is a farm where a couple is living that adopted boys that were living on the street or in drug families. During the day the boys go to school and in the afternoon they help on the farm and in the kitchen. During weekends they run a restaurant and during the week they prepare everything for it. Making Empanadas, Ravioloi dough, killing some rabbits and a pig etc. At the same time some people from the village have found work on the farm. Everybody was very very welcoming to us. Rochelle and I stayed in one of the Cabañas they rent out for guests on weekends, very luxurious.
All the people at Camino Abierto were so welcoming. We just felt at home after some hours. The days were long, woke up at 6:30 to help milking the cows and during the day I was working in the the garden together with a german woman who fell in love with an Argentinian and is now living there. We talked alot (in german!) and I also talked to some othere people at the farm. The boys had very difficult "childhoods" and still need to see the psychologist but nevertheless they were very welcoming and most of them in a happy mood. It can just change very quickly because all the time new things are happening that change the mood and emotions. Some where talked quite openly about their families to me... It was indeed a special experience for me. ( Don´t know how to describe it in other words) We walked through the village, played soccer, learned how to make Empanadas, ate dinner with everybody, messed up the words gallina and galletita (chicken and cookie) and many more good memories... After 2 days we had to leave, we didn´t want to leave and they didn´t want to let us go. So we promised to come back and went with Gonzalez (he was the man I milked the cows with) in his car to Lujan, a town nearby. There we visited a famous Basilica and took the bus the Rosario. The ride is supposed to take 3-4 hours. It took us 7! The motor broke down! Rochelle and I found ourselves at a petrol station somewhere between Lujan and Rosario, eating Ice cream with Dulce de Leche, talking to a group of small boys that were to compete in gymnastics in Rosario and reading our books. Late we arrived in Paraná, city live beaming around us again. Took a taxi home, it was the birthday of my hostsister Clarita.
Since then I have been back to my old routine at Eco Urbano, Barriletes, classes and Paraná in general. Diving is getting more dificult and is maybe the thing I enjoy most these days. But hey, we are planning to go diving in Brasil the beginning of december and afterwads I will celebrate Christmas in Montevideo.
Anything else? It rained today. Before it was very hot. Now it is warm and humid.
We are fnished copying the book titles of the libary onto paper so now we copy the titles from paper into the computer.... hoping to finish in 2-4 days. And then? Back to cutting newspaper articles I guess.
Soon I will post some more pictures.
Time has passed. I have been in BUENOS AIRES!
Friday the 26th we took a bus to Buenos Aires where I stayed until Monday. We met Olivia and Maja there and some touristic days. Walking in the centre, in some very beautiful parts of the city, looking at the old buildings, saw some Tango on the street and we went to different cafés and restaurants. The sun was shining every day but it was not too hot. Enjoyed being somewhere else, talking to the people, just waking up in the morning thinking: What are we going to do today? What do I feel like? We also met up with Daire who is volunteer in a different organisation close to Buenos Aires. On Monday we went with him to his place. After we survived Buenos Aires Subway during Rush Hour with all our luggage!!! Daire is working in a project that is called "Camino Abierto" it is a farm where a couple is living that adopted boys that were living on the street or in drug families. During the day the boys go to school and in the afternoon they help on the farm and in the kitchen. During weekends they run a restaurant and during the week they prepare everything for it. Making Empanadas, Ravioloi dough, killing some rabbits and a pig etc. At the same time some people from the village have found work on the farm. Everybody was very very welcoming to us. Rochelle and I stayed in one of the Cabañas they rent out for guests on weekends, very luxurious.
All the people at Camino Abierto were so welcoming. We just felt at home after some hours. The days were long, woke up at 6:30 to help milking the cows and during the day I was working in the the garden together with a german woman who fell in love with an Argentinian and is now living there. We talked alot (in german!) and I also talked to some othere people at the farm. The boys had very difficult "childhoods" and still need to see the psychologist but nevertheless they were very welcoming and most of them in a happy mood. It can just change very quickly because all the time new things are happening that change the mood and emotions. Some where talked quite openly about their families to me... It was indeed a special experience for me. ( Don´t know how to describe it in other words) We walked through the village, played soccer, learned how to make Empanadas, ate dinner with everybody, messed up the words gallina and galletita (chicken and cookie) and many more good memories... After 2 days we had to leave, we didn´t want to leave and they didn´t want to let us go. So we promised to come back and went with Gonzalez (he was the man I milked the cows with) in his car to Lujan, a town nearby. There we visited a famous Basilica and took the bus the Rosario. The ride is supposed to take 3-4 hours. It took us 7! The motor broke down! Rochelle and I found ourselves at a petrol station somewhere between Lujan and Rosario, eating Ice cream with Dulce de Leche, talking to a group of small boys that were to compete in gymnastics in Rosario and reading our books. Late we arrived in Paraná, city live beaming around us again. Took a taxi home, it was the birthday of my hostsister Clarita.
Since then I have been back to my old routine at Eco Urbano, Barriletes, classes and Paraná in general. Diving is getting more dificult and is maybe the thing I enjoy most these days. But hey, we are planning to go diving in Brasil the beginning of december and afterwads I will celebrate Christmas in Montevideo.
Anything else? It rained today. Before it was very hot. Now it is warm and humid.
We are fnished copying the book titles of the libary onto paper so now we copy the titles from paper into the computer.... hoping to finish in 2-4 days. And then? Back to cutting newspaper articles I guess.
Soon I will post some more pictures.
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