Al otro lado del rìo

I have returned to Buenos Aires. I took the boat back on Tuesday. Uruguay was so LEGAO!

My last night there I went to see a Murga - think bright, colorful, rhythmic populist music theater with big troupes of performers and big drums. I am now nicely tanned/burned and ready for some more city living and good pizza. Last night I went to my second tango class, this time with my friend Sergio and all of his coworkers from American Airlines. Afterwards I went and hung out with more Brasilians, and an Argentine kid who`s in the production of El Fantasma de Canterville (yeah, by Oscar Wilde, great). It was sweet - ask me to tell you the story about how I saved us all later that night with my Honduran tough talk and commanding man-beard.

I now have some more friends who are in BsAs/La Plata long-term. People here are very open, and not in a sketchy way. It`s cool.

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I now find myself in La Plata. On the bus I met a family man/former professional boxer/tae kwon do instructor named Diego (Note: everyone in Argentina between my age and 30 is named Diego, after Maradona). I now have a personal bodyguard whenever I`m in La Plata, haha. I may go to an asado with his family some time after I settle here.

I`m going to spend most of the day here in La Plata just checking it out and visiting a few people I know here. It`s a very cool university town. I`m going to like it a lot. It`s only about an hour from the middle of BsAs by bus. So I can get just as much of Buenos Aires as I want, but not too much. There is a lot of student housing around and it`s mostly pretty cheap.

Later gators...