A short post tonight. Just a few excellent things that happened to me today:
- We officially signed the lease for our new apartment in Mendoza. We can move in anytime after July 12th. When I say official, I mean OFFICIAL. As in: a real Argentinian lawyer's office in downtown Mendoza where I had to surrender my passport, then attempt to understand the fastest spanish in the world as the lawyer read off four pages of our leasing contract. Primero thru Cuatro I got the jist of. Quatro thru nueve were a bit fuzzy as my mind refused to keep up with my ears. Thank god that Daniel saw my quizzical look and jumped in to translate...
- I managed to crank out four lesson plans, run to the print shop and put them on paper, pop into MEGATONE, the world's weirdest appliance shop and eat a media luna in the space of just three hours. I must be getting good at this being productive thing...
PS> Megatone: where you can find buzz saws in glass display cases, washing machines with ranges, and a german security guard with a blond hitler stash. Love you, Argentina.
- My sprained ankle no longer looks like a marshmellow. Delightfully, it has turned into a blue and yellow deflated balloon. Or something like that.
- I ate all the leftovers in our fridge.
- I finally obtained the long sought-after number of a taxi company in mendoza. Now I no longer have to poach taxis from the rich snobs at the Hyatt.
-My new brown hair looks pretty good.
Of course, there were a few no-so-good things that happened to me today too.
- Our housing contract is in spanish, and somewhere in there it states that I must buy insurance in order to have students in my house. Apparently, it is common for students/maids/contractors to sue you if they poke their eye out in your kitchen. So much for trust and another 30 pesos a month...
- A notary in Argentina costs $690 pesos. What? I think its less expensive to BECOME a notary in the states!
- I had a rather disastrous first lesson with one of my new students. Because he used words like "placate" in our first meeting, I wrongly assumed he was much more advanced than he actually is. As a result I just spent twenty minutes trying to explain the concept of supply and demand. Next time I think we'll go with a basic tense construction.
- I have to wake up at 7am tomorrow and drag my sorry, blimp-like foot across town for a lesson because my students didn't want to miss out on their morning coffee.
- I have to wake up at 7am tomorrow.
- After 4 days, i finally finished my latest English language book. It was, indisputably, the worst worst worst book I have ever read. However, the supply of english books here is so dismal, I am considering reading it again.
- That medialuna I managed to squeeze it today? It was the only thing I had to eat until 10pm.
- Even with my new brown dye job, I still got called "hermosa rubia" today. How can I be a hot blonde with brown hair? Next time, I'm going darker...
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