TUESDAY 02/23/10
Started up the intense apartment search – I still have time, but the online search and then the in-person follow up is starting to exhaust me. The first of the day was just a few blocks from me, still in Palermo Hollywood – a really nice Chilean guy who works in post-production for MTV’s channel in Chile. The house was very nice, huge ceilings, nice sized bedroom, large terrace patio with a parrilla, but he has a pit bull. I really don’t mind being around pit bulls, but I just don’t completely feel comfortable living with one.
Later that day, walked to a house north of my barrio, in Chacarita. The area seemed to get a bit more “dodgy” (as Tyrone would say) as I got closer to the train station that’s nearby and the Chacarita cemetery. The house was large with many international people that stay (very reminiscent of L’Auberge Espagnole), but it was completely disorderly and cluttered…too bad I’m so type-A and can’t just live anywhere!
On my way back home, I passed a bakery that was just beckoning me to come in with its sweet aromas that were wafting out to the street. I succumbed and bought some facturas, palmeras and alfajorones de maicena.
palmeras and facturas (pastries)
I then went in search of the movie for my class. The professor had directed me to a movie store closer to the center of the city. This was a large, independent book/movie store that has archives of all movies – the store clerk knew exactly which movie I was requesting and wished he had it, but the only copy had been checked out a year and a half ago and never returned (so much for the “garantía” that they require for renting movies). As I was looking through the books in the front half of the store, he came to me and said he had found one of their archived copies that they keep for themselves and that he could burn me a copy. Perfect!
As I waited for it to be burned, I looked through the collection of books, organized by topics such as, anarchism, socialism, Peronism, Argentine history, and Latin American literature. A book on Argentine immigration caught my eye – I’m starting to look into finding some volunteer position related to immigration here in Argentina, and the book had a great overview of immigration in both Argentina and throughout Latin America and its political and cultural impacts. It was self-published by a non-profit organization, CLACSO (Latin American Council of Social Sciences), so I looked them up when I got home and sent out a request to the woman in charge of the “Migration, Culture and Politics” group. Also, an attorney down here referred me to FCCAM (Argentine Catholic Commission Foundation of Migrations) – still waiting for responses from both organizations.
Started up the intense apartment search – I still have time, but the online search and then the in-person follow up is starting to exhaust me. The first of the day was just a few blocks from me, still in Palermo Hollywood – a really nice Chilean guy who works in post-production for MTV’s channel in Chile. The house was very nice, huge ceilings, nice sized bedroom, large terrace patio with a parrilla, but he has a pit bull. I really don’t mind being around pit bulls, but I just don’t completely feel comfortable living with one.
Later that day, walked to a house north of my barrio, in Chacarita. The area seemed to get a bit more “dodgy” (as Tyrone would say) as I got closer to the train station that’s nearby and the Chacarita cemetery. The house was large with many international people that stay (very reminiscent of L’Auberge Espagnole), but it was completely disorderly and cluttered…too bad I’m so type-A and can’t just live anywhere!
On my way back home, I passed a bakery that was just beckoning me to come in with its sweet aromas that were wafting out to the street. I succumbed and bought some facturas, palmeras and alfajorones de maicena.
palmeras and facturas (pastries)
alafajores de maicena (shortbread cookies with dulce de leche & coconut)
I then went in search of the movie for my class. The professor had directed me to a movie store closer to the center of the city. This was a large, independent book/movie store that has archives of all movies – the store clerk knew exactly which movie I was requesting and wished he had it, but the only copy had been checked out a year and a half ago and never returned (so much for the “garantía” that they require for renting movies). As I was looking through the books in the front half of the store, he came to me and said he had found one of their archived copies that they keep for themselves and that he could burn me a copy. Perfect!
As I waited for it to be burned, I looked through the collection of books, organized by topics such as, anarchism, socialism, Peronism, Argentine history, and Latin American literature. A book on Argentine immigration caught my eye – I’m starting to look into finding some volunteer position related to immigration here in Argentina, and the book had a great overview of immigration in both Argentina and throughout Latin America and its political and cultural impacts. It was self-published by a non-profit organization, CLACSO (Latin American Council of Social Sciences), so I looked them up when I got home and sent out a request to the woman in charge of the “Migration, Culture and Politics” group. Also, an attorney down here referred me to FCCAM (Argentine Catholic Commission Foundation of Migrations) – still waiting for responses from both organizations.
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