I'm ultimately confused by this whole situation. I mean who has a butler? I guess people who stay in the Park Tower in Buenos Aires. Upon receiving my upgrade and finding my way up to my room I received a knock on the door shortly after getting situated. To my suprise it was my butler or thats what she told me...she looked like a butler too wearing a tuxedo like thing with tails and everything, however she didn't speak with that Geeves like english accent.
So, when I finally got home last night, there were snacks on my coffee table. That was great
because I needed a snack.
Also, there were notes from my butler...I need to save these things. They were like "I stopped by today to check in on you, unfortunately you were not here. I left you this snack I hope you like it. Please let me know if I can assist you in anyway. Your Butler, Maria Jose"
I'm so confused. What do I do with a butler?
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
I'm back...
Alright, I'm back in BA and it's already funny.
I checked into my hotel..or rather tried to...and I was informed that I will be recieving an upgrade to the Park Tower. Why you might ask? I too was confused, but what the heck after I was told "Because it is better" by 2 different people I accepted the offer to be in the super stuffy and fancy wing of the hotel. I'm not sure if they were expecting me to look how I do or something because they always seem suprised when they are talking to me...expescially my butler...yes I said it...butler...
I checked into my hotel..or rather tried to...and I was informed that I will be recieving an upgrade to the Park Tower. Why you might ask? I too was confused, but what the heck after I was told "Because it is better" by 2 different people I accepted the offer to be in the super stuffy and fancy wing of the hotel. I'm not sure if they were expecting me to look how I do or something because they always seem suprised when they are talking to me...expescially my butler...yes I said it...butler...
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Free coffee at Starbucks
Yesterday, I went into Starbucks as usual for my Grande Cafe Americano. This time was different..or diferent if you will...I wait in line for a little while and I when I finally get to the register the girl says "Hola Jeff, Cafe Americano again" and I say "Si". She then says "Blah blah blah blah blah..." which I can't understand a word. I reply "Como?" she looks over at the Barista for help.
The barista walks over and says "Jeff...she..uh....this one she buy you...uh...because she say so" I'm like "No, serio?".."Si si"..."Ok, thanks"...
Anyway, I got a free coffee...for going to S'bucks every single morning for 2 months. But it is nice that they all know my name there now. I walked in on sunday morning...uh afternoon I slept til 2pm....to a "Hola Jeff!" it was fun. I felt like Norm form cheers. Oh and Sabrina gets mad at me everytime I order my Cafe Americano caliente...she swares by the helado americano.
The barista walks over and says "Jeff...she..uh....this one she buy you...uh...because she say so" I'm like "No, serio?".."Si si"..."Ok, thanks"...
Anyway, I got a free coffee...for going to S'bucks every single morning for 2 months. But it is nice that they all know my name there now. I walked in on sunday morning...uh afternoon I slept til 2pm....to a "Hola Jeff!" it was fun. I felt like Norm form cheers. Oh and Sabrina gets mad at me everytime I order my Cafe Americano caliente...she swares by the helado americano.
Friday, April 10, 2009
The Cien note is the bane of my existance
Once again all I could get from the Caja Automatico was Cient pesos notes. Why do they even have these things if nobody will take them? It so funny to go buy something for 20 pesos and pull out the 100 pesos bill and see the look of horror on the face of the kid at the counter.
So, this time I went to the King to get a whopper and some aros de cebolla I had the young lady my 100 and she starts to freak out. She asks if I have anything smaller to which I reply "No, solo" I'm trying to say thats all I have. I'm not sure if thats right, but it's close enough and she got the point. She then takes a deep breath and lets out a big sigh...then looks around for her manager. Nobody is around to save her from this terrible situation that I have put her in. She opens up her cash drawer and begins to count out my change...remember it's only 80 pesos in change...she has to give me almost every bill she has in her drawer. At least this time she didn't start handing me rolls of quarters like I got at Starbucks. Anyway I have a massive stack of small bills now so this shouldn't be a problem...however I have no idea if she gave me enough change or not.
Hasta la proxima....
So, this time I went to the King to get a whopper and some aros de cebolla I had the young lady my 100 and she starts to freak out. She asks if I have anything smaller to which I reply "No, solo" I'm trying to say thats all I have. I'm not sure if thats right, but it's close enough and she got the point. She then takes a deep breath and lets out a big sigh...then looks around for her manager. Nobody is around to save her from this terrible situation that I have put her in. She opens up her cash drawer and begins to count out my change...remember it's only 80 pesos in change...she has to give me almost every bill she has in her drawer. At least this time she didn't start handing me rolls of quarters like I got at Starbucks. Anyway I have a massive stack of small bills now so this shouldn't be a problem...however I have no idea if she gave me enough change or not.
Hasta la proxima....
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Monday, April 6, 2009
La LLama que LLama
Check this out...this is one in a series. I can't understand it all, but it's still funny.
Basically the word for the animal Llama and the verb for call "Llama" are the same, so it's a "The Llama that calls"....or La Llama que llama. Don't for get to pronounce "ll" as "sha".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhAcQ9ca8Ck
I love the "Hola, United States...."
Basically the word for the animal Llama and the verb for call "Llama" are the same, so it's a "The Llama that calls"....or La Llama que llama. Don't for get to pronounce "ll" as "sha".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhAcQ9ca8Ck
I love the "Hola, United States...."
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Cataratas - Spanish for amazing..
http://www.iguazuargentina.com/
Tara and I just arrived at the Sheraton Iguazu. It's amazing, our room over looks the falls. So far we've spent the day at the pool and had a really nice Hamburgesa con Jamon! Tara loves Jamon on her hambergesas.
Anyway, the sun is hot and the Quilmes is luke warm, but it looks like this will be a good time. I need to finish some work today, so that we can start the enjoyment ;-)
I'll post some pictures probably after the weekend.
Tara and I just arrived at the Sheraton Iguazu. It's amazing, our room over looks the falls. So far we've spent the day at the pool and had a really nice Hamburgesa con Jamon! Tara loves Jamon on her hambergesas.
Anyway, the sun is hot and the Quilmes is luke warm, but it looks like this will be a good time. I need to finish some work today, so that we can start the enjoyment ;-)
I'll post some pictures probably after the weekend.
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
I'm tired
Yes, it's true. I'm tired. I'm sore. I've been working to much.
Last night I played Futbol with Alejandro and some of his buddies. I haven't done an althetic movement since I got here and then I went out and ran around for an hour...without a break!
It was tons of fun. I tried to have some form of ball control, but I was a mess. I tried to play more agressive, but I didn't know what that meant. However, I scored the first goal of the night and shortly after that I trip myself on the ball and took an awesome tumble. I fell one more time when I got in a battle for a ball.
I missed a couple of awesome crossing passes that would have been sure goals for any Argentino, but for me I simply wiffed or barely knicked the ball. It was said, but they guys told me I was much better than they expected. I think my key was defensively, I never got really beat...and when I had the ball I was trying to make the right passes, I just couldn't seem to make good passes.
Tons of fun though.
Last night I played Futbol with Alejandro and some of his buddies. I haven't done an althetic movement since I got here and then I went out and ran around for an hour...without a break!
It was tons of fun. I tried to have some form of ball control, but I was a mess. I tried to play more agressive, but I didn't know what that meant. However, I scored the first goal of the night and shortly after that I trip myself on the ball and took an awesome tumble. I fell one more time when I got in a battle for a ball.
I missed a couple of awesome crossing passes that would have been sure goals for any Argentino, but for me I simply wiffed or barely knicked the ball. It was said, but they guys told me I was much better than they expected. I think my key was defensively, I never got really beat...and when I had the ball I was trying to make the right passes, I just couldn't seem to make good passes.
Tons of fun though.
Saturday, March 7, 2009
Claro!
http://www.truveo.com/Claro-Guinea-Pig/id/144115201241352242
Best ad ever...I can't understand a word but I love it.
EDIT: This link worked tonight.
Best ad ever...I can't understand a word but I love it.
EDIT: This link worked tonight.
I'm in Kansas????
Tuesday night I went out to dinner with Alejandro and his friend Andy. They took me to a very nice resurante called...."Kansas". I thought that was funny at first, why name it Kansas? Anyway, the food was very good it was supposed to be like american style, with extra big portions and different styles of cooking then what you typically get here. I got the BBQ Pork Chop..which was very good.
And to complete the American feel of the resturant it comes complete with "Hurried" service. You know how the waiter gently hints that he would like you to go because there are other people he would like to have at the table...yeah that happened. You typically don't get that here, you have to ask the waiter for your check and they will wait patiently for you. All in all Kansas was pretty good.
And to complete the American feel of the resturant it comes complete with "Hurried" service. You know how the waiter gently hints that he would like you to go because there are other people he would like to have at the table...yeah that happened. You typically don't get that here, you have to ask the waiter for your check and they will wait patiently for you. All in all Kansas was pretty good.
Having a party? Order a sandwich brick
Why go to subway for a 6 foot sandwich when you can order a sandwich that is a 30cm x 30cm x 30 cm cube:
All joking aside it was actually pretty darn good. Each layer is a different type of sandwich, so everytime you grab another sandwich you get another suprise!
Monday, March 2, 2009
Jajajajaja...
As you may know much of my communication at work is over IM (for the old people this is Instant Messenger...its realtime chating). Anyway, there are many short cuts that are used when talking to one another for instance... when you want to say something is funny you type "lol" which stands for Laughing Out Loud or you type "Hahahahaha" which is like laughter...easy right?
Well, the first week I was here I was a little confused by a message or 2 that I recieved from a local it was "jajajajajaja" now my reading that I thought it was weird, but in the context it would have be laughter. A few days later I had an apiphiny...In spanish the "j" is pronounced like our "h", so for the spanish speaking community "jajajajaja" makes perfect sense as laughter.
I thought that was a neat little tid bit.
Well, the first week I was here I was a little confused by a message or 2 that I recieved from a local it was "jajajajajaja" now my reading that I thought it was weird, but in the context it would have be laughter. A few days later I had an apiphiny...In spanish the "j" is pronounced like our "h", so for the spanish speaking community "jajajajaja" makes perfect sense as laughter.
I thought that was a neat little tid bit.
McDowells Delivers!
The project is coming to a very tense point in its development. We're coming up on our timeline and there is still a ton of stuff to do. To keep up team moral we have decided to order some lunch in for the team...what do we order? McDonalds...and for delivery. Lol...it cracks me up a little bit.
So, I had a discussion over my Doble Cuarto de Libre con Queso with the team about the delivery of McD's and how i thought that was funny and I had to eat McD's because it was delivery...oh and I also got attacked by the team members when I asked for "sin queso" lol. Anyway, they were amazed that you couldn't order from any of the fast food chains in the US.
Which we then proceeded to dicussion what you could get delivered and you can get pretty much anything. I actually saw a waiter crossing the street with a tray that had one cup of coffee on it. I thought it was something weird at the time, but they informed me today that this was possible....a single cup of coffee. The team knowing my love of Starbucks suggested that I order starbucks for delivery.
Oh and you can order a liter of coke or water or whatever...need a bag of chips to go with that...order it. If only I could "hablar" enough spanish to place such an order....i guess in time...hopefully.
So, I had a discussion over my Doble Cuarto de Libre con Queso with the team about the delivery of McD's and how i thought that was funny and I had to eat McD's because it was delivery...oh and I also got attacked by the team members when I asked for "sin queso" lol. Anyway, they were amazed that you couldn't order from any of the fast food chains in the US.
Which we then proceeded to dicussion what you could get delivered and you can get pretty much anything. I actually saw a waiter crossing the street with a tray that had one cup of coffee on it. I thought it was something weird at the time, but they informed me today that this was possible....a single cup of coffee. The team knowing my love of Starbucks suggested that I order starbucks for delivery.
Oh and you can order a liter of coke or water or whatever...need a bag of chips to go with that...order it. If only I could "hablar" enough spanish to place such an order....i guess in time...hopefully.
Sunday, March 1, 2009
The Slash of Accordion players
I forgot to show everyone this before. This is the band I saw in San Telmo in December...enjoy!
This was neat...
This was the scene outside of Starbucks today...
It was like a parade, sort of...it was about a 100 guys on horses some of which were in the band???
Saturday, February 28, 2009
There are few different levels of spanish...
There's survival spanish, work spanish and grocery store spanish.
Survival spanish is pretty easy, Donde esta cervecaria?...Donde esta el bano?...Un cerveca por favor...Donde esta el hospital?
Then there is work spanish, this is made easier by my co-workers english abilities. Where is el bano? Where is the cafe machine? Estamos en al horno con papas.
Notice because my co-works speak such good english I can slide in the spanish words or phrase at random.
The there is grocery store spanish, where I'm guessing they get the least amount of turists and there for don't ever really require an english skills or know how to deal with me when I look at them like I'm nuts. Today I tested the grocery store again...all I wanted was some bare essentials bread, ham for sandwiches, O.J. and a six pack of beer (Quilmes). I headed over there and all was going well...I grabbed a little blue plastic crate thing with a handle and started my shopping adventure...
First stop, bread! Hmm...there are many kinds of bread...this is much more dificult than i thought the bread bags have all kids of words I've never seen before. Crap! I grabbed what seemed to be a multigrain wheat bread...looks great and I could use some grains at this point.
Next stop, ham for sandwiches...I get side tracked by the banana section, I don't know way but bananas sound great. I've probably got scurvy at this point so I could use some fruit. I grab a thing of 4 bananas. On to the ham...wait theres some O.J. but it's in the cold cheese section across form the ham...it says 100% something so it must be good. I grab that...now the ham...there are about 80 different types of ham and I don't understand anything on there other than some have Jamon and others have Cerdo...I grab the ham that says El Familiar, because well it's familiar.
Alright, I want to grab a few beers to have at the joint. Quilmes preferably...well there is definitley a beer isle and there are litres of beer all over the place and then there are the cans and then the small bottles. However, none of these are package i'm looking all over for a 6 pack. So, I grab six individual bottles of quilmes. I think that is weird.
Alright, lets check out...I stand in the "Caja Express" (i think that was it) line, it says something about a maximum of 15 items...so i'm good.
Well, I've been here before so I know the first question is going to be cash or charge...so the girl says something and i wave my cash at her. She looks at me like I'm nuts, but just starts ringing up my items...the individual beer bottles seem to cause a small issue as they start rolling all over the place...then the bananas...she looks at me and says something...i have no idea, i didn't even get one word out of that sentence. I say "Lo siento, no entiendo" and i look at the women behind me and shrug my shoulders and smile. the girl is not happy...she says some to me again...no idea what she just said and she's pointing at the bananas and then the back of the store...i'm guessing I had to do something with the bananas first...so i just say "no problemo, no necessito" she seems to be ok with this and puts the bananas off to the side. I'm checking out the numbers on the machine and notice that my bill is right around 42 pesos, so I hand her 50...easy enough right? No, the girl looks at me and says something else...i didn't understand a word, so i smile and say "No entiendo" and then i look at the lady behind me and smile....she looks at the girl at the checkout shrugs her shoulders and says "No entiende" with that the girl waves her had at me in a nevermind kind of fashion and hands me my change.
I'm just glad the whole thing is over with and I get out of there ASAP! Phew another event I was able to get through...but geez I don't know jack in spanish.
Survival spanish is pretty easy, Donde esta cervecaria?...Donde esta el bano?...Un cerveca por favor...Donde esta el hospital?
Then there is work spanish, this is made easier by my co-workers english abilities. Where is el bano? Where is the cafe machine? Estamos en al horno con papas.
Notice because my co-works speak such good english I can slide in the spanish words or phrase at random.
The there is grocery store spanish, where I'm guessing they get the least amount of turists and there for don't ever really require an english skills or know how to deal with me when I look at them like I'm nuts. Today I tested the grocery store again...all I wanted was some bare essentials bread, ham for sandwiches, O.J. and a six pack of beer (Quilmes). I headed over there and all was going well...I grabbed a little blue plastic crate thing with a handle and started my shopping adventure...
First stop, bread! Hmm...there are many kinds of bread...this is much more dificult than i thought the bread bags have all kids of words I've never seen before. Crap! I grabbed what seemed to be a multigrain wheat bread...looks great and I could use some grains at this point.
Next stop, ham for sandwiches...I get side tracked by the banana section, I don't know way but bananas sound great. I've probably got scurvy at this point so I could use some fruit. I grab a thing of 4 bananas. On to the ham...wait theres some O.J. but it's in the cold cheese section across form the ham...it says 100% something so it must be good. I grab that...now the ham...there are about 80 different types of ham and I don't understand anything on there other than some have Jamon and others have Cerdo...I grab the ham that says El Familiar, because well it's familiar.
Alright, I want to grab a few beers to have at the joint. Quilmes preferably...well there is definitley a beer isle and there are litres of beer all over the place and then there are the cans and then the small bottles. However, none of these are package i'm looking all over for a 6 pack. So, I grab six individual bottles of quilmes. I think that is weird.
Alright, lets check out...I stand in the "Caja Express" (i think that was it) line, it says something about a maximum of 15 items...so i'm good.
Well, I've been here before so I know the first question is going to be cash or charge...so the girl says something and i wave my cash at her. She looks at me like I'm nuts, but just starts ringing up my items...the individual beer bottles seem to cause a small issue as they start rolling all over the place...then the bananas...she looks at me and says something...i have no idea, i didn't even get one word out of that sentence. I say "Lo siento, no entiendo" and i look at the women behind me and shrug my shoulders and smile. the girl is not happy...she says some to me again...no idea what she just said and she's pointing at the bananas and then the back of the store...i'm guessing I had to do something with the bananas first...so i just say "no problemo, no necessito" she seems to be ok with this and puts the bananas off to the side. I'm checking out the numbers on the machine and notice that my bill is right around 42 pesos, so I hand her 50...easy enough right? No, the girl looks at me and says something else...i didn't understand a word, so i smile and say "No entiendo" and then i look at the lady behind me and smile....she looks at the girl at the checkout shrugs her shoulders and says "No entiende" with that the girl waves her had at me in a nevermind kind of fashion and hands me my change.
I'm just glad the whole thing is over with and I get out of there ASAP! Phew another event I was able to get through...but geez I don't know jack in spanish.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Bruchetta
Shish-kabobas on a grander scale...i just ate 4 filet mignons. I'm going into a protein coma...if you don't here from me in 5 minutes....just wait longer.
Monday, February 23, 2009
Rock Chalk!
I just finished up watching the game on my computer at the apartment. I went to this bar that I knew had all the american sports, it's actually owned by an american. So, I got over there around midnight and the place is packed! Like crazy packed with college kids, or i guess kids way younger than me. I think they have ladies drink free til midnight or something, but it was crawling and very annoying (I'm getting old). I huge out there, painfully, til the end of the first half. Great game...wow.
Alrighty, good night all.
Alrighty, good night all.
You are in the oven man
So I learned a new phrase: "Esta en el horno"
Which means "You are in the oven" or "You are screwed" lol
I guess when things start to get worse you start to add vegetables to the oven...
"Esta en el horno con papas"
and even worse yet...add your vegetable of choice:
"Esta en el horno con papas y zanahorias"
Just keep adding stuff as it gets worse and worse....lol
I need to check on the 'horno' it doesn't sound exactly right...but it was explained as an 'oven' and horno is the translation of oven. I'll update when I findout exactly what the phrase is...it's still funny.
Which means "You are in the oven" or "You are screwed" lol
I guess when things start to get worse you start to add vegetables to the oven...
"Esta en el horno con papas"
and even worse yet...add your vegetable of choice:
"Esta en el horno con papas y zanahorias"
Just keep adding stuff as it gets worse and worse....lol
I need to check on the 'horno' it doesn't sound exactly right...but it was explained as an 'oven' and horno is the translation of oven. I'll update when I findout exactly what the phrase is...it's still funny.
Bird feeders...
I saw a new meaning of bird feeders this weekend.
On my adventure to aquire a power adapter I saw the craziest site. This little old lady was out feeding the pigons, however instead of having a peice of bread and tearing off little bits and feeding this pigeons in an orderly manor. She had a giant bag of what looked like torn off peices of bread and she started pouring out the peices into a pack of pigeons (maybe 100...maybe more its hard to count pigeons). The pigeons go into a frenzy that I can only describe as a shark like feeding frenzy and now this woman is trying to excape by lifting the bag over her head. But this doesn't seem to bother the pigeons because they have wings and they start to use them. They fly up and start grabbing at the bag and the food and now she is in a swarm of pigeons. Until she drops the bag on the ground and backs up. And the pigeons proceed to destroy to the bag.
The best part is that everyone is walking along like nothing is going on and I'm at first worried then I got a little chuckle out of it...but geez it was nuts! I will now bring my camera everywhere incase something like this happens again.
On my adventure to aquire a power adapter I saw the craziest site. This little old lady was out feeding the pigons, however instead of having a peice of bread and tearing off little bits and feeding this pigeons in an orderly manor. She had a giant bag of what looked like torn off peices of bread and she started pouring out the peices into a pack of pigeons (maybe 100...maybe more its hard to count pigeons). The pigeons go into a frenzy that I can only describe as a shark like feeding frenzy and now this woman is trying to excape by lifting the bag over her head. But this doesn't seem to bother the pigeons because they have wings and they start to use them. They fly up and start grabbing at the bag and the food and now she is in a swarm of pigeons. Until she drops the bag on the ground and backs up. And the pigeons proceed to destroy to the bag.
The best part is that everyone is walking along like nothing is going on and I'm at first worried then I got a little chuckle out of it...but geez it was nuts! I will now bring my camera everywhere incase something like this happens again.
Friday, February 20, 2009
Spanish to English to Spanish
I decided to try out my new vocabulary in a meeting today. We were talking about some application junk and I ask a memeber of the team roughly "Do we ever return all the values?" but in my broken spanish.
It took him a second to to respond and he was looking up at the ceiling processing...it seemed like he had to take whatever I said and translate each word into english so that he could then figure out exactly what I actually ment in spanish. I called him out on it and we all enjoyed a good laugh.
Anyway, so far the guys enjoy my little attempts at spanglish and are happy to correct me and help me out with the right word...i hope it keeps up. Once the pressure increases and the timeline comes close it might not be as funny.
It took him a second to to respond and he was looking up at the ceiling processing...it seemed like he had to take whatever I said and translate each word into english so that he could then figure out exactly what I actually ment in spanish. I called him out on it and we all enjoyed a good laugh.
Anyway, so far the guys enjoy my little attempts at spanglish and are happy to correct me and help me out with the right word...i hope it keeps up. Once the pressure increases and the timeline comes close it might not be as funny.
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Apparently I know the map better...
I walked out last night to grab a quick bite to eat it was like 10 so people were actually around.
I walked to the corner and stopped to wait for the white lightguy to appear meaning it's safe to cross the street. This guy maybe a little bit younger than me turns to me and says something...blah blah blah Santa Fe...I say "eh...eh...lo sciento..Santa Fe?" and he points down one street and says "Santa Fe o " and points down the street in the other direction and says "Santa Fe? Donde Santa Fe?" ah...no I'm catching on...which direction is Avineda Santa Fe??? Well buddy it's you lucky day, because just yesterday I got lost looking for Santa Fe, so I'm pretty sure I know where this street is. So, I point down the street in teh direction of Santa Fe and say "Derecho es Santa Fe"...I'm on fire! So, then he says something else that ended in Santa Fe...now i'm totally lost. He repeats himself and makes a slicing bread motion on his hand and counts 4 o 5...ah how many blocks away? Ok again I know this because after I got lost looking for Santa Fe I closely examined the map so this wouldn't happen again..."Si, es cuatro o cinco avinedas"...finally this guy catches on and says "You are not from here? De donde?" to which I say "Chicago" and he says "You're not from here and you know the city better than me and I've lived here all my life".
Awesome...I feel good. All in all it took about ten minutes for me to tell the guy "It's that way about 5 blocks". Hopefully, I can cut that in half by the end of the trip.
I walked to the corner and stopped to wait for the white lightguy to appear meaning it's safe to cross the street. This guy maybe a little bit younger than me turns to me and says something...blah blah blah Santa Fe...I say "eh...eh...lo sciento..Santa Fe?" and he points down one street and says "Santa Fe o " and points down the street in the other direction and says "Santa Fe? Donde Santa Fe?" ah...no I'm catching on...which direction is Avineda Santa Fe??? Well buddy it's you lucky day, because just yesterday I got lost looking for Santa Fe, so I'm pretty sure I know where this street is. So, I point down the street in teh direction of Santa Fe and say "Derecho es Santa Fe"...I'm on fire! So, then he says something else that ended in Santa Fe...now i'm totally lost. He repeats himself and makes a slicing bread motion on his hand and counts 4 o 5...ah how many blocks away? Ok again I know this because after I got lost looking for Santa Fe I closely examined the map so this wouldn't happen again..."Si, es cuatro o cinco avinedas"...finally this guy catches on and says "You are not from here? De donde?" to which I say "Chicago" and he says "You're not from here and you know the city better than me and I've lived here all my life".
Awesome...I feel good. All in all it took about ten minutes for me to tell the guy "It's that way about 5 blocks". Hopefully, I can cut that in half by the end of the trip.
Mi Domicilio
Lol...uh I should have stead in the Shareton and collected points. But here's the gist of my situation:
Here's my kitchen and living room. I had to knock down a wall that seperated them and I think it really opened up the place:
Here's the newly remodeled kitchen complete with granite counter tops and 18 inch formica cabinets:
Eh..the picture upload takes way too long...I'll post the others later. But the point is, I have a small apartment...yada yada yada.
Oh, but there is a Starbucks downstairs so that makes everything better.
Hola que tal?
So, I'm here andi wanted to have a place to post some stuff about my little trip and yes the title is the extent of my spanglish...I'm working on it I actually had a nice lesson today over lunch.
Yo puedo tomar un accituna.
tomar means to take and also to drink..interesting little word tomar...anyway.
I'm hanging in there and I'll try to catch up on my fun little experiences trying to navigate BA with a lack of spanish knowledge and a bad case of lactose intolerance.
Yo puedo tomar un accituna.
tomar means to take and also to drink..interesting little word tomar...anyway.
I'm hanging in there and I'll try to catch up on my fun little experiences trying to navigate BA with a lack of spanish knowledge and a bad case of lactose intolerance.
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