A man's memory is not a summation,it is a chaos of vague possibilities - Jorge Luis Borges
3 Comments Published by Ster on Tuesday, May 01, 2007 at 10:45 AM.
This post may become filled with Aphorisms as my wit fails me today. Also failing is my ability to post a blog post regularly for my family and friends to see. 1 post every couple of months has turned out to be a less than effective strategy on maintining a readership and has even led my brothers and sisters to stop visiting my blog. The viewership of this page now consists of myself and my mom. It has become more an email to my mom with a URL. Which is a nice segway into my first aphorism: If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style. This is how i feel about my blogging abilities. In the world of facebook and myspace, blogs have become a thing of the past. Something '06ish, newspaper'esqu, too "printed word", not digital enough.
Sorry mother, I've been rambling. How are you? Things here in Buenos Aires are fantastic. We will be making our voyage back to toronto in just a little over 2 weeks. We have met some fantastic people since we've been here and it will be hard to say good-bye. Sam and I went for dinner last night in Palermo Soho at this nice little restaurant on a cobblestone, tree lined street with perfect city ambience and agreed that we need to return to BA as soon as possible. Describing the culture of Buenos Aires is not something that would fit within the framework of the email, however, i will say that their value system seems to be much more aligned with the values of what the human soul actually seeks. And you can sense it in the details around you. I have been fortunate enough to have worked on my spanish enough to be able to watch Castellano films and understand, more or less, what is going on. Obviously the visual format helps, but because i have been watching spanish cartoons in the morning and going to films at night, my listening comprehension has improved greatly. When I get back, I want to buy you 4 movies, most by Argentinian directors, and most taking place in BA, and watch them with you with english subtitles on.
The films are
You also mentioned you have been watching films from Isreal. We should organize a film day with the family where we watch our latest favorites? maybe we shouldn't invite my brother Dana, as i know he's not one for subtitles. The dumb fool can't read quick enough and just ends up speaking pigeon english under his breath which distracts everyone else. I can say this because I know, he too, has stopped reading this blog.
Below I have posted pictures for you to see. We went to an Aerosmith concert with Velvet revolver (the guys from Guns and Roses are in a new band) the other day. We have also been going to dances at night time. Overall, things have been very good. My reading has been split down the center, either childrens books (for 8-10 year olds), my latest entitled "frin" or spanish literature, my latest, "The Book of Sand" by Jorge Luis Borges. We can talk about the books I've read when i get home.
Love you
Buenos Aires is a very dark city with a very bright sky. We have a private rooftop patio where we can see the stars all night. The Souther sky is much different than our Norther sky. I took this picture just after the sun went down.
A huge soccer stadium (can seet 60,000 people) + all of the people on the field. I think there must have been close to 80,000 people at this concert.
Downtown BA after we finished watching the orchestra.
Our neighborhood
Sam in our house
A family wine store in our neighborhood. They set up a few chairs at night and play nice music.
At Bar Danzon in Recolota
At Bar Danzon in Recolota
Sammy and I
Eating at Bar 6
Kata and her mom. Going away party for Mathias
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