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If you like Arabian food…

   ... I recommend you "El Horno de Medio Oriente".  It is a restaurant located in 2501 Garay Av. (in the corner of Garay Av. and Alberti st.), just one and half block away the school. Students and teachers use to lunch there twice or three times a week because the food is very tasty and [...]

By |2006-12-28T01:54:01-03:00December 28th, 2006|Uncategorized|Comments Off on If you like Arabian food…

Trip to La Plata city

On Saturday 18 th we went  to La Plata by bus. La Plata is the capital city of the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina.  It is situated on the right bank of the Rio de la Plata, about  60 km. (35 miles) south-east of the city of Buenos Aires. The city was planned to serve [...]

By |2006-12-28T01:39:00-03:00December 28th, 2006|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Trip to La Plata city

Good life, Bariloche. Patagonia argentina

Howdy everyone,     Well, Bariloche is treating me very well. My friend Matt arranged a house for us to stay in. Some Kiwi friends of his rented the place for five months, and just took off traveling until Christmas. Hence, we have a two story, three bedroom house just up the hill from downtown to [...]

By |2006-12-03T22:04:50-03:00December 3rd, 2006|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Good life, Bariloche. Patagonia argentina

In Buenos Aires there are people and…

…and, there are the animals; those that are cared for by other people and those that are hanging out in the streets and have to find their own food. Like in NYC, BA has dog walkers and many of them have up to 10 dogs to walk. During the week it is quite normal to [...]

By |2006-11-29T22:02:15-03:00November 29th, 2006|Uncategorized|Comments Off on In Buenos Aires there are people and…

A trip to Reserva Otamendi, Escobar and sailing Paraná river.

On Saturday 11 th, we met at 8:30 am to go to know Buenos Aires ´ surroundings.   70 Km north of Buenos Aires city taking national route 9, we arrived at a town called 'Ingeniero Romulo Otamendi'. This town lies between the cities of Escobar and Campana. We visited its national reserve Otamendi, the [...]

By |2006-11-27T22:18:11-03:00November 27th, 2006|Uncategorized|Comments Off on A trip to Reserva Otamendi, Escobar and sailing Paraná river.

Game and dinner and…

On Friday  we played Taboo. I played taboo for first time. At the beginning I thought that the game consisted of performing acts considered taboo (maybe because Simon bought it for the school?) but, in fact,  it is a very amusing game with words.  Cédric, Vicki, Andreas, Nate, Simon, Romina and Marina ready to play [...]

By |2006-11-06T01:51:00-03:00November 6th, 2006|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Game and dinner and…

A trip to Mar del Plata

Last weekend I went to Mar del Plata. Each year a lot of people from Buenos Aires and the rest of the country spend their holidays there. In spite of that, it is not very popular among the foreign tourists. In my opinion, Mar del Plata is a very good option to spend some days. [...]

By |2006-11-05T00:36:28-03:00November 5th, 2006|Uncategorized|Comments Off on A trip to Mar del Plata

The story of the school cat

The rescue of the cat One day, in March 2002, Olga, the tea lady at Verbum, found a baby cat 2 blocks away from Verbum school. The cat had been abandoned in a box and was hungry. Olga didn´t want to have him at her home because she already had 2 cats at that moment. [...]

By |2006-10-26T09:10:03-03:00October 26th, 2006|Uncategorized|Comments Off on The story of the school cat