Friday, April 25, 2008
a quotation
"It's a dangerous business going out your door. You step into the Road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to." --Bilbo Baggins
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Yay!
We just had our first movie night, complete with North American (read as: US-Mexican food, bbq chicken pizza) food. A big hit! My students are starting to email me more with questions too, and they´re enjoying our English Discussion Class blog that Kristal and I set up.
Things are going great in La Plata - loving life and making friends! I´m signing up for a Portuguese class and, actually, maybe a Chinese class depending on what it´s like. First class is tomorrow. And I´m signed up for a tango/milonga lesson, we´ll see how that goes.
I had placed a musician classified ad at a few music stores around here and got a few bites: a local saxe player looking to start a jazz combo to play some standards and a blues/rock band, both looking for a bass player. I´m glad that I switched to bass at age 12, it makes finding musicians to play with a lot easier. First ´band practice´(?) is tomorrow afternoon.
So I continue to feel at-home and happy in La Plata and I´m finding out what cool extracurriculars there are to do. So far I´ve found everything I looked for so, um, HAKUNA MATATA.
Next week is exam week (read as: no university work for Chuck to do) so I may head out to Mendoza for the second part of the week.
Rock,
C3
Things are going great in La Plata - loving life and making friends! I´m signing up for a Portuguese class and, actually, maybe a Chinese class depending on what it´s like. First class is tomorrow. And I´m signed up for a tango/milonga lesson, we´ll see how that goes.
I had placed a musician classified ad at a few music stores around here and got a few bites: a local saxe player looking to start a jazz combo to play some standards and a blues/rock band, both looking for a bass player. I´m glad that I switched to bass at age 12, it makes finding musicians to play with a lot easier. First ´band practice´(?) is tomorrow afternoon.
So I continue to feel at-home and happy in La Plata and I´m finding out what cool extracurriculars there are to do. So far I´ve found everything I looked for so, um, HAKUNA MATATA.
Next week is exam week (read as: no university work for Chuck to do) so I may head out to Mendoza for the second part of the week.
Rock,
C3
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
tantas cosas que contar...
A quick update!
I am now in my second full week of teaching English discussion classes. My students are, on average, the same age as me and they have impeccable English skills. Most of them speak with British accents since that´s the kind of English they teach here. In-class participation is really good. I think we can have a lot of fun this semester!
I am now in my third or fourth week of working with the Comisión Provincial por la Memoria. I am currently coordinating a video-testimonial archiving project for the William and Mary students doing internships there. Two of them are my former Sharpies. One of them is Walker, who I last saw in Honduras. I had my internship group over last night to have dinner at my apartment and talk about Honduras, William and Mary, life in La Plata, etc. Today we started in on our first trial run for their internship work.
I´m really glad to have Kristal (the other Fulbright ETA) and her husband Venicius around. We make a good exploration team. Over the weekend we went to Buenos Aires and I caught up with my colombianos from San Telmo. Then we went to eat Japanese food and decided we might apply to JET for next year. Then we went to my lovely friend Jackie´s house and had an international Mario Kart championship until the next morning. Adoro mi comunidad inmigrante - sacamos un poco de todas partes y hacemos algo aun mejor: Interculturalismo.
Other than that, day to day life has been the basics: getting to know people here, hanging with Tino in the house, buying clothes (now that I´m not a hippie backpacker anymore), cooking food, trying to form the world´s greatest rock band, etc.
Cariños desde La Plata,
Ch.
I am now in my second full week of teaching English discussion classes. My students are, on average, the same age as me and they have impeccable English skills. Most of them speak with British accents since that´s the kind of English they teach here. In-class participation is really good. I think we can have a lot of fun this semester!
I am now in my third or fourth week of working with the Comisión Provincial por la Memoria. I am currently coordinating a video-testimonial archiving project for the William and Mary students doing internships there. Two of them are my former Sharpies. One of them is Walker, who I last saw in Honduras. I had my internship group over last night to have dinner at my apartment and talk about Honduras, William and Mary, life in La Plata, etc. Today we started in on our first trial run for their internship work.
I´m really glad to have Kristal (the other Fulbright ETA) and her husband Venicius around. We make a good exploration team. Over the weekend we went to Buenos Aires and I caught up with my colombianos from San Telmo. Then we went to eat Japanese food and decided we might apply to JET for next year. Then we went to my lovely friend Jackie´s house and had an international Mario Kart championship until the next morning. Adoro mi comunidad inmigrante - sacamos un poco de todas partes y hacemos algo aun mejor: Interculturalismo.
Other than that, day to day life has been the basics: getting to know people here, hanging with Tino in the house, buying clothes (now that I´m not a hippie backpacker anymore), cooking food, trying to form the world´s greatest rock band, etc.
Cariños desde La Plata,
Ch.
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