Time is getting short. You must all be very anxious to see your student. It is hard to believe that the course is almost over.
We arrived in Buenos Aires on Saturday afternoon, after a long and hot bus ride. It was over 100 degrees again, and the bus's air-conditioning just couldn't keep up with the heat.
Sign of the times: We stopped at a service station on the highway, which had wi-fi. I was able to use Skype (on my laptop) to talk to my husband in Minnesota.
As I need to spend several hours today correcting journals and quizzes, I am going to keep this brief. On Sunday we took a city tour with an agency that specializes in academic tours of Buenos Aires. The guide, Diego, gave us an incredibly good tour -- he was clear and organized yet he managed to describe the complex history of the founding of Buenos Aires, the Perón era, the dictatorship of the 1970s, and the Madres of the Plaza de Mayo. We visited the Plaza de Mayo, the colorful port area known as La Boca, and the Recoleta Cemetary.
Below are some pictures. I should also have said this much earlier, but all of the really wonderful photos in this blog were taken by Marisa Kalbermatten. She is a great photographer -- her photos have so much color and life in them that I always prefer them to my own.
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