Here I want to share with you some nice photos sent by the students: Boukje y Jeanette in Bolivia forest Edwin and Olga at the school       Joy Haynes in Perito Moreno Glacier  Joy with the penguins in Patagonia       Mark Juhas in El [...]
We want to thank all the students who send us Happy New Year greetings, cards and e-cards. We wish you all a wonderful new year 2008! Fireworks in Buenos Aires at New Year´s night.
Simon, one of the students of Spanish, take a trip to north Argentina, Bolivia and Peru and sent us some cards. Here I share them with you all: La Paz (Bolivia) Peru Thanks Simon! Hope you are enjoying your trip! Marina
Many students want to know what mate is. I have written a short text explaining it and here I share it with you all. Mate is a caffeinated infusion prepared by steeping dried leaves of “yerba mate†in hot water. It is the national drink in Argentina and Uruguay and a common social practice in [...]
We want to share some new writings... Simon Emeric, from Austria, wrote a poem. Each verse starts saying "Si yo fuera..." (If I were...) using the past tense of the subjunctive. Here it is: “Si yo fuera presidente de Argentina, yo abogarÃa por los argentinos. Si yo fuera un argentino, yo tendrÃa piel morena y ojos [...]
A wireless hotspot enables users with wireless-enabled laptop computers to access the Internet, without the need for any networking cables or any other additional equipment. Lycos offers a service to locate the closest hotspot in any place of the world: http://wifi.lycos.es There you can download a program which enables you to find ,even when you [...]
Ricardo (from Brazil) sent me this recipe. He and other students from Brazil cooked it for all of us (teachers and students) last summer and I liked it a lot. Because of that I want to share it here... They cooked it without bacon because some of us are vegetarian. Feijao, pronounced fay-szong, is a [...]
We went to have dinner and enjoy a tango show at El Balcón, in San Telmo neighbourhood. El Balcón is on a first floor of a old house and from its balcony (balcón in Spanish), you can see Dorrego square. There are colourful paintings and faint light. The show was very good and, unlike most [...]
Today, 9th of July, is our Independence Day - 9 de Julio. Althought it is a holiday, we had classes at the school and celebrated it eating something typical of Argentina, a sweet potato cake. Establishing a free nation in 1816 was very important, but today another new also took a very important place in [...]
Peña is a meeting, like a celebration, where folk music is played, listened to and danced and where regional dishes are served.There are many different “peñas†in Buenos Aires and this is one of our favourites where we use to go together with our students.Famous musicians as well as new singers and groups play at [...]