La Vida Errabunda

Last Wednesday, I proclaimed my hatred for the bus system in Buenos Aires and for the Guia-T the bus guide. On our (Ray, Ashley, and myself) first day at our internship, we caught the 39, just like our bus guide said. It was supposed to drop us one block from our internship on Uriarte in Palermo. After riding for a bit, I noticed we weren't going the direction we were supposed to. We kept waiting for it to turn. But it never did. It turned about 10 blocks too late, and then turned again, but away from Uriarte. By the time we realized it wasn't going to go east, we got off and realized we had to walk around 11 blocks. In 85 degree heat. I ended up with 5 blisters and we had a nice layer of sweat by the time we arrived. My internship assignments have switched around a bit, so I am starting at Con 24 InfoNews, a 24 hour news site. I'll be editing videos and writing for the website. It's in a great area of Buenos Aires, and it was a nice first day. Everyone is very f...

Warning: no photos in this post. It'd be an issue of national security. Tuesday we went to the American Embassy with Carolina. We all thought it had to do with getting our visas, which was completely incorrect (we are still struggling to do that on our own). Instead, it was a little informational meeting/welcome. After going through intense security and leaving behind all electronics, we were escorted in by groups no larger than four. We then had to surrender a form of ID. And then our escorts led us back into this little conference room. Upon arriving in the room, I saw this photo of these amazing red rock formations. I immediately said, "Where is this in Argentina? Because I want to go there!" I got closer, only to see the title on the bottom of the photo "New Mexico." Needless to say, I was disappointed and the fact that we had just stepped back into US territory became quite real. We met the Press Attache at US Embassy Buenos...