If anyone is out there, we send our love and hope that you are fairing well in the post apocalyptic USA and question how you actually read this.
Love Tim & AnneMarie
domingo, 24 de agosto de 2008
¿Por qué no hay los comentarios?
So every day at the break of dawn, we wake up and run to the computer to see if anyone in the world loves us and reads our stories, but lately the days have grown long and silent. We spend hours on end moping around the house wondering if perhaps a power outage due to solar flares has plagued North America for the past week or maybe an electromagnetic pulse weapon has disabled all of the computer networks and phone lines leaving the USA nothing more than a third world country overnight (like in that show Dark Angel). Surely that would explain why no one has commented on any of our recent blogs. Until we hear from someone, I guess we'll just have to keep doing what we have been doing (which is really watching a season of Smallville every two days).
If anyone is out there, we send our love and hope that you are fairing well in the post apocalyptic USA and question how you actually read this.
Love Tim & AnneMarie
If anyone is out there, we send our love and hope that you are fairing well in the post apocalyptic USA and question how you actually read this.
Love Tim & AnneMarie
jueves, 21 de agosto de 2008
R.I.P.
We had a very strange day yesterday...
The police came to our door and ask if we could let him out (in our building you have to use a key to get in and out of it). I go and let him out and there are a handful of other officers standing outside. I walk away as some of them come in.
Tim did not think much of it when I told him...until about twenty minutes later when the same officer knocked again asking to be let out. Tim goes this time and as he is walking back to our apartment he sees the other officers carrying a body bag down the stairs!! Which can only mean that someone died upstairs...
This was a great mystery until our maid come over and I asked her about it. She said that the lady was in her 80's or older and had been sick for a long time. She lived alone and had a daughter that would check in on her. Her daughter was out of town or something and this is why the police come to take her body...
It just seems like a really sad story of a elderly lady who died alone. It makes me appreciate the loved ones in my life.
The police came to our door and ask if we could let him out (in our building you have to use a key to get in and out of it). I go and let him out and there are a handful of other officers standing outside. I walk away as some of them come in.
Tim did not think much of it when I told him...until about twenty minutes later when the same officer knocked again asking to be let out. Tim goes this time and as he is walking back to our apartment he sees the other officers carrying a body bag down the stairs!! Which can only mean that someone died upstairs...
This was a great mystery until our maid come over and I asked her about it. She said that the lady was in her 80's or older and had been sick for a long time. She lived alone and had a daughter that would check in on her. Her daughter was out of town or something and this is why the police come to take her body...
It just seems like a really sad story of a elderly lady who died alone. It makes me appreciate the loved ones in my life.
martes, 19 de agosto de 2008
Joven...Eggs
We have a little funny story to tell...
To buy produce we have to go to these stands. They are like the stands in the US but they are permanent little buildings. So there will be two restaurant and the fruit stand is sandwiched in between the two....we will get a picture to show everyone.
Anyway they sale meat at the stands as well. When we go to them we usually get eggs. Me (AnneMarie) with my amazing Spanish skills do all the talking! Now the funny part of the story is really only funny because it happened on two accounts. Oh you should know that the costumer does not pick out the items they ask the person for it and they worker gets them.
Well here I am asking for papas blancas, cebollas, zanahorias, tomates, ect...(white potatos, onions, carrots, tomatoes, ect) Then I look at the eggs and they have white and brown...so I say, "seis joven morrones" and get a really confused look from the guy working there. Tim is also looking at me funny. The moment I said it I know that something was wrong but could not figure it out...joven, joven, joven...is that the right word. I knew it sounded funny but could not figure it out. The it all came to me HUEVOS!! The word for egg is huevos....so what I said I wanted was, "6 young brown" no wonder everyone was looking at me...
We left the stand laughing really hard about it...but if you say both words they do kind of sound alike. But the next time we went to the stand I did the same thing...Tim just started to laugh and I looked at him and we all started laughing (the lady working as well)...
Now you guys have a little Spanish lessen and if you need to buy brown eggs from a Spanish speaker you know how to say it!
To buy produce we have to go to these stands. They are like the stands in the US but they are permanent little buildings. So there will be two restaurant and the fruit stand is sandwiched in between the two....we will get a picture to show everyone.
Anyway they sale meat at the stands as well. When we go to them we usually get eggs. Me (AnneMarie) with my amazing Spanish skills do all the talking! Now the funny part of the story is really only funny because it happened on two accounts. Oh you should know that the costumer does not pick out the items they ask the person for it and they worker gets them.
Well here I am asking for papas blancas, cebollas, zanahorias, tomates, ect...(white potatos, onions, carrots, tomatoes, ect) Then I look at the eggs and they have white and brown...so I say, "seis joven morrones" and get a really confused look from the guy working there. Tim is also looking at me funny. The moment I said it I know that something was wrong but could not figure it out...joven, joven, joven...is that the right word. I knew it sounded funny but could not figure it out. The it all came to me HUEVOS!! The word for egg is huevos....so what I said I wanted was, "6 young brown" no wonder everyone was looking at me...
We left the stand laughing really hard about it...but if you say both words they do kind of sound alike. But the next time we went to the stand I did the same thing...Tim just started to laugh and I looked at him and we all started laughing (the lady working as well)...
Now you guys have a little Spanish lessen and if you need to buy brown eggs from a Spanish speaker you know how to say it!
viernes, 15 de agosto de 2008
Crash
We have another traffic story...
On the way to school there is a four lane road that we have to cross. Each lane is separated by planting strips and in the middle there is a good size park. We rarely make it all the way across one one light. This day was no different, we where standing on the planting strip waiting for the next light in the pouring rain. It had started to sprinkle when we left the house but by the time we got to the big road it was pouring.
That is when it happened...A car stopped, still not sure why the car stopped, at the green light. It was a good two minutes before anything happened. The car was just waiting there for no known reason when a car behind started to hit their brakes. They seemed to not have there eyes on the stopped car. There was a point when we thought the car would stop but then the driver seemed to take his foot off the brake. The ran right into the stopped car with a light crash that only happens when plastic hits plastic.
Both cars seemed undamaged but as Tim and I where walking the rest of the way to school we realized that was the first accident that we have ever seen. I have kind of been in an accident but I was asleep and it involved ice on the road and a trailer jack-knifing. In the states we have see the results of an accident but never it happening. What are the odds of us seeing two collisions in a month and a week?
On the way to school there is a four lane road that we have to cross. Each lane is separated by planting strips and in the middle there is a good size park. We rarely make it all the way across one one light. This day was no different, we where standing on the planting strip waiting for the next light in the pouring rain. It had started to sprinkle when we left the house but by the time we got to the big road it was pouring.
That is when it happened...A car stopped, still not sure why the car stopped, at the green light. It was a good two minutes before anything happened. The car was just waiting there for no known reason when a car behind started to hit their brakes. They seemed to not have there eyes on the stopped car. There was a point when we thought the car would stop but then the driver seemed to take his foot off the brake. The ran right into the stopped car with a light crash that only happens when plastic hits plastic.
Both cars seemed undamaged but as Tim and I where walking the rest of the way to school we realized that was the first accident that we have ever seen. I have kind of been in an accident but I was asleep and it involved ice on the road and a trailer jack-knifing. In the states we have see the results of an accident but never it happening. What are the odds of us seeing two collisions in a month and a week?
sábado, 9 de agosto de 2008
Subte
WE are sorry that we had a dry spell of not writing! I'm not sure why we did not for so long because there is plenty to tell! So I'll try and check everyone up:
We went to Colonia, Uruguay a couple of weekends ago (2 to be exact). I was a nice town with a lot of rich history (check out the pictures that we have posted on the last post). It was also kind of scary the lack of people present in the town. One of the girls that was with us said that it reminded her of the mid-west in the States because it was so empty. It has been a really long time since I have been in a place that was really flat and no one around!
The really interesting part (other then Tim's knife thing) was when we got back...I have told you before about the traffic here in Argentina. Well the buses are really crazy when they drive...I have almost got run over by one a couple of times. When we where in Uruguay waiting for the ferry to take us all home, we talked to one of the AIFS (who we are studying abroad with) leaders, Lisa, about the crazy bus drivers. She told us, "there are two kinds of people in Argentina: the crazy bus drivers and everyone else!" We laughed about it. Then the minute we get off the ferry in Argentina we find out that: A BUS DRIVER WAS SHOT AND KILLED EARLIER THAT DAY!! I could not believe the irony. One of his passengers got mad at him and killed him. This caused a strike for all the bus drivers and even the Subte (Subway). The buses stopped running at 10pm and the Subte at 9:30. We got off the ferry at about 9:20 and where in the middle of no where, where no Taxis drive by...This equaled us walking all the way home...about 4 miles. By the time we got home, I'm pretty sure that my feet were still on the ground 2 miles back.
Then we had our first day of classes on Monday (Aug. 4)...we have class at 1pm and at 6pm. We go to the school at wait until 2pm but still no professor...we look around for a posting of some kind that will tell us if the class was canceled or what. Of course we can not find it. We walk back home and then walk back to school for the 6pm class, which is one of Tim's. I wait outside his class room, start reading my book, and ten minutes later Tim comes out and says, "you want to hear something fun..." guess what, the class was canceled. We are told that it says on the posting what classes are canceled and had the schedule. We find it and curse it :) Not all is lost however, the exercise is always good for us. We get home and are about to watch a movie when the POWER GOES OUT (as Tim has already talked about in the last posting)...we have no candles so we go out looking for some....no power when we get home. We get woken up at 3am with it going back on. I have class at 8:30am so we go to school then after it is over we come back to the house and the minute we walk in the power goes back out!! What luck. I guess that it happens here but we were the only building in San Telmo without power so I'm not really sure what happened.
Ok now that brings everyone up-to-date for the most part. My last story is about what happened yesterday...We discovered how great it is to use the Subte. The C line is really close to out front door and will take us a lot of places in little time. I have to get books for my Short Stories class in English. We look at about 5 book stores without any luck on finding them (my professor forgot to re-order them for this semester). We are tired and frustrated because we had spent about two hours looking at book store after book store for two stupid books. We get on the Subte and it is packed...well we thought it was packed until we got to the next stop...first you should know that I do not believe they have a fire code in Argentina because of the lack of exits and other things. So the next stop comes and no one gets off but about 30 more people get on...no personal space at all...I can barely breath because a strangers neck is blocking my oxygen path. The next stop comes and I'm praying that people get off but with our luck only more get on...there is no room...and I yell NO MAS NO MAS (no more no more) some people laugh (oh everyone is not saying a word by the way)...now I'm pinned against one of the doors and people are trying to get out...but they can not get out so they shove...it was awful! EVERYONE should try it some time! We were joking that the only way to get out was to body surf...luckily we where able to shove through the mass and get out when our stop came but we did not think we would make it out. You might think that I'm exaggerating but I assure you people where on top of each other.
We went to Colonia, Uruguay a couple of weekends ago (2 to be exact). I was a nice town with a lot of rich history (check out the pictures that we have posted on the last post). It was also kind of scary the lack of people present in the town. One of the girls that was with us said that it reminded her of the mid-west in the States because it was so empty. It has been a really long time since I have been in a place that was really flat and no one around!
The really interesting part (other then Tim's knife thing) was when we got back...I have told you before about the traffic here in Argentina. Well the buses are really crazy when they drive...I have almost got run over by one a couple of times. When we where in Uruguay waiting for the ferry to take us all home, we talked to one of the AIFS (who we are studying abroad with) leaders, Lisa, about the crazy bus drivers. She told us, "there are two kinds of people in Argentina: the crazy bus drivers and everyone else!" We laughed about it. Then the minute we get off the ferry in Argentina we find out that: A BUS DRIVER WAS SHOT AND KILLED EARLIER THAT DAY!! I could not believe the irony. One of his passengers got mad at him and killed him. This caused a strike for all the bus drivers and even the Subte (Subway). The buses stopped running at 10pm and the Subte at 9:30. We got off the ferry at about 9:20 and where in the middle of no where, where no Taxis drive by...This equaled us walking all the way home...about 4 miles. By the time we got home, I'm pretty sure that my feet were still on the ground 2 miles back.
Then we had our first day of classes on Monday (Aug. 4)...we have class at 1pm and at 6pm. We go to the school at wait until 2pm but still no professor...we look around for a posting of some kind that will tell us if the class was canceled or what. Of course we can not find it. We walk back home and then walk back to school for the 6pm class, which is one of Tim's. I wait outside his class room, start reading my book, and ten minutes later Tim comes out and says, "you want to hear something fun..." guess what, the class was canceled. We are told that it says on the posting what classes are canceled and had the schedule. We find it and curse it :) Not all is lost however, the exercise is always good for us. We get home and are about to watch a movie when the POWER GOES OUT (as Tim has already talked about in the last posting)...we have no candles so we go out looking for some....no power when we get home. We get woken up at 3am with it going back on. I have class at 8:30am so we go to school then after it is over we come back to the house and the minute we walk in the power goes back out!! What luck. I guess that it happens here but we were the only building in San Telmo without power so I'm not really sure what happened.
Ok now that brings everyone up-to-date for the most part. My last story is about what happened yesterday...We discovered how great it is to use the Subte. The C line is really close to out front door and will take us a lot of places in little time. I have to get books for my Short Stories class in English. We look at about 5 book stores without any luck on finding them (my professor forgot to re-order them for this semester). We are tired and frustrated because we had spent about two hours looking at book store after book store for two stupid books. We get on the Subte and it is packed...well we thought it was packed until we got to the next stop...first you should know that I do not believe they have a fire code in Argentina because of the lack of exits and other things. So the next stop comes and no one gets off but about 30 more people get on...no personal space at all...I can barely breath because a strangers neck is blocking my oxygen path. The next stop comes and I'm praying that people get off but with our luck only more get on...there is no room...and I yell NO MAS NO MAS (no more no more) some people laugh (oh everyone is not saying a word by the way)...now I'm pinned against one of the doors and people are trying to get out...but they can not get out so they shove...it was awful! EVERYONE should try it some time! We were joking that the only way to get out was to body surf...luckily we where able to shove through the mass and get out when our stop came but we did not think we would make it out. You might think that I'm exaggerating but I assure you people where on top of each other.
miércoles, 6 de agosto de 2008
Fun and Stuff
Hey so I know we haven't written anything new in awhile so anyway, things are good. We got to go on a ferry ride to Uruguay two weekends ago. The village that we went to was called Colonia. It's a really peaceful tourist attraction. The funny thing was that I forgot to take the Knives out of my pockets and backpack and since we were going into another country. I had them confiscated when we passed through security before going on the ferry. It worked out though because they gave them back to me when we got to the other side of the river, and then when we came back they didn't even check us for guns or knives. So if you want to smuggle something into Argentina, go to Uruguay first. Colonia was a lot of fun. We had lunch their and walked around the beach. We took a lot of pictures, so here are some.
The Sun on the water when we where on the ferry to Uruguay.
There was a little bizzar.
If you look closely (click on it) at the Ambulance you will see it spelled backwards! Very Clever!!
The power went out for the first time on Monday night. Supposable this is not uncommon, so we had to go shopping for candles. We were just about to watch a movie, when the lights dimmed and went out. We spent a good part of the night staring at the candles and feeling a deep longing for technology. Ok, so maybe that was just me, but Anne was bored too.
Anyway, sorry for the boring update. I'm a little tired today so maybe later I'll think of something more interesting to talk about. Anne is in class right now, and I'm just killing time.
The Sun on the water when we where on the ferry to Uruguay.
There was a little bizzar.
If you look closely (click on it) at the Ambulance you will see it spelled backwards! Very Clever!!
The power went out for the first time on Monday night. Supposable this is not uncommon, so we had to go shopping for candles. We were just about to watch a movie, when the lights dimmed and went out. We spent a good part of the night staring at the candles and feeling a deep longing for technology. Ok, so maybe that was just me, but Anne was bored too.
Anyway, sorry for the boring update. I'm a little tired today so maybe later I'll think of something more interesting to talk about. Anne is in class right now, and I'm just killing time.
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