Marcha del orgullo LGBT

la 19ª Marcha del Orgullo LGBT tiene este año la consigna de: ¡Vamos por más, Ley de Identidad de género YA!
Este sabado 6 de Noviembre desde las 15 horas comienza la Feria de la Marcha como todos los años en Plaza de Mayo.
La Marcha parte desde ahi a las 18 horas rumbo hacia la Plaza de los Dos Congresos.

letter from a volunteer in Salta

We left our Mosconi family, with a sad goodbye and our glasses covering our eyes. The last month we became very close,living and learning from each other. I was especially fond of “La Tia” the aunt and mother figure of the family. I found out that because women can do two things at once (males are unable to do this because of the way there brain functions… not my words by the way) they played a huge role in the household. My favourite area of the house was the kitchen.

Apparently there were very few people allowed in that area, as La Tia previously was a cook and ran a restaurant from home, so I felt very special. I wrote down recipes and my spanish vocabulary was initially kitchen based. I may not have been able to ask for directions but I could cut a potato. My love for food has increase with the knowledge of Argentinian cooking and unfortunately the chiefs eat the food so has my waist size…hahah so so worth it. We were at asado (Argentinas most splendid way of cooking meat and eating an abundance of salads and vegs) and I was asked by one of the guests if I was pregnant (everyone was eating a lot, I think it was cause I was a foreigner and I could eat a lot… my family had already experienced that so it was a running joke), I just smiled and kept feeding my little food baby.

I would just like to say that without you my Argentinian experience would not have been the same. Not only did you provide me with drive and direction to learn spanish in BA. You opened up to me a world I would have never experienced travelling hostel to hostel. You family are the most wonderful people. To open up your home to complete strangers and to make them feel completely loved and comfortable is a credit to their support for you and the success of your vision. Everything was how you explained it sitting in that cafe in BA. You were accommodating to the needs of the individual which made for a very personal program. You gave us an opportunity to work within your community, an impact that we will never see but the memories we will talk about for years (I have already got my brother on to building an asado bbq for my return, now all I need is Argentinian meat). Thank you for your vision, for allowing me to be apart of it and for giving me an insight into your very special world.

You and your family will be missed By Sarah-Jane Brennan

Why Spanish??

Are you about to travel around Argentina??

Do you need basic Spanish for business reasons?

Do you have an Spanish speaking partner, family or friends?

Are you a fan of Argentina´s culture, food, soccer or music and want to start learning Spanish??

Día del Niño

Feliz Día del Niño con regalos personalizados... Ropa pintada con Filete porteño para los más chiquitos!!

We´re sorry to announce our former Presidente Dr.Raul Ricardo Alfonsín has passed away peacefully at his home in Buenos Aires

Al Dr. Don Raúl Ricardo Alfonsín

Por esta carta quiero también que sepa lo mucho que lo respeto y lo respetado que es por muchos argentinos y que recuerde que es un símbolo viviente del valor de la Democracia, los Derechos Humanos y la Pacificación del País.

Espero que las personas que lean esto entiendan y recuerden el ambiente de democracia por el que muchos lucharon y hasta fueron victima de la represión... y que Ud supo pacificar.

Es necesario que exprese que no cambiaría mi primer voto en democracia hacia Ud. como muchos votos que obtuvo en las históricas elecciones de 1983.

Nunca olvidaré la imagen de su figura en el estrado de un cierre de campaña en Salta capital donde los salteños demostraron que querían que Ud. sea quien lleve a Argentina en el camino de la transición.

Un saludo y un abrazo simbólico de todos los argentinos para Ud.

Crisis económica, Malaria

The lady President Cistina de kirchner said i Río Negro:... " La malaria les llegó a todos" , tranquil@... tranquil@! you don´t need vaccination for this one!

"Malaria" means bad time or specifically "economic crisis".

Although the problem is here in present she used Future tense when she said her government "tomará todas las medidas y recurrirá a todos los instrumentos necesarios para preservar el trabajo de los argentinos, la inversión de los empresarios y de los comerciantes". listen and watch the audio in spanish:

http://www.videos.clarin.com/index.html?id=970560

Sofia is missed

Sofia Yasmín herrera is a 3 years old. She is a healthy kid. She was camping last sunday 28th with her family in "john Goodall camp" (close to Nacionat road number3, 60 km from Rio grande, Tierra del Fuego) from where she have disappeared ... Since this moment her family, friends and authority and all the country started a national search. There is an reward (more than $100.000)

If you travelled around and have information Please call to Río Grande phone (02964-445020) or cellphone (02964- 15414743) or contact info@missingchildren.org.ar

* The picture show how she was dressed at this moment.

Further information: http://www.sofiaherrera.surio.com

volunteer in salta, information

Classroom and kids become colorful and have fun with a volunteer. Here is Rachel from Lousiana visiting a 4ª grade at "Daniel Leon" elementary school. She listened at their exposition about salta`s aborigens culture them she taught English to this bunch of happy children.

Visiting 2nd grade "Coronel Vidt" elementary school afternoom shift

visiting 5th grade "Coronel Vidt" elementary school morning shift

Children´s day compaign * Día del niño campaña solidaria

www.voluntarios.tripod.com inició una campaña para recolectar cosas para niños del norte de Salta ...

We need you donation for Mosconi (salta) : books or toys

Necesitamos su donación para Mosconi (salta): libros o juguetes

General Enrique Mosconi city in Salta

Geographic Location

Salta province is located in the northeast part of República Argentina, and it has contiguous 23 departments. General San Martín is one of the richest departments in natural resources. General San Martin consists of the following municipalities: Salvador Mazza, Aguaray, Tartagal, General Mosconi, General Ballivian and Embarcación. General Mosconi has one of the largest petroleum and gas fields.
The city of General Enrique Mosconi is located in the northeast of República Argentina in Salta province. As we said before, General Mosconi is one of the six municipalities conforming General San Martin, and is located on Interstate Route 34 and 340 kilometers away from the capital of Salta.

General San Martin’s area is 2758 square kilometers approximately, and it is located on the San Antonio Sub-Arederas Hills and conformed for valleys and flowing streams with 500 meters in altitude water level.

General Enrique Mosconi shares land borders with part of town of Aguaray (to the north) and General Ballivian (to the south), and Tartagal City (to the East), and Rio Grande de Tarija in Bolivia (to the West).

The latitude and longitude of General Enrique Mosconi are the following:

Latitude: 22:39:51 S (-22.6642)
Longitude: 63.46.490 (-63.7804)

Climate

The predominant climate is Sub-tropical. The rainfall intensity is 900 millimeters approximately between the months of December and March, while the annual average temperature is 30º C and the maximum temperature is 48º C in summer.

Hydrography

The west borders areas of Mosconi are shared with the Río Tarija, which originates in Bolivia and flows into Bermejo River by Oran’s border.Rio Tarija ends in the Itau River in Bolivia, originating large channeled water and flows that beautify the natural wealth and create incredible scenic views.
Río Seco flows south through General Mosconi and shares borders with Río Blanco and Bermejo to the southwest.

Natural Resources

General Enrique Mosconi has a broad natural resources wealth due to its extension and geographic location. This can be seen by observing the rivers, hills and the wild that are located in General Enrique Mosconi.

Geologic studies determined that General Enrique Mosconi has one of the largest gas and petroleum fields in our country.
The municipality of General E. Mosconi is characterized for the forestall activity, by exploiting the natural wealth of the forests and wild, for the gas and petroleum extraction and exploitation and for its agriculture activity due the large extensions of land and suitable and generous soils for the production (at a lower scale although).
Next, there is a map from “Revista de la Fauna”(Fauna Magazine) and revised by the Argentine Fauna Foundation; It shows the distribution of different types of vegetation in the high basin of Bermejo River, the most important area of the Bosque of Yungas (Yungas Forest) in the provinces of Salta and Jujuy both located at the northeast of Argentina.

The preceding map and the satellite image show the most important protected areas, Calilegua National Park (Jujuy) and Baritu (Salta) in Argentina and the Tarija Reserve in Bolivia. Precisely within these three conservation units, the specialists want to create a biological corridor with the sustainable usage of nature.

25 de Mayo en Paz

Esta es la escarapela de “la Paz en Argentina”
Que este 25 de Mayo… En Salta, en Rosario, así como desde la Quiaca a Ushuaia...
Haya una sola Argentina
Viva LA PATRIA… viva la verdadera DEMOCRACIA

Ayer Sushi

“Amigos japoneses y el Pretérito indefinido en Español”

Ayer domingo visité a mi alumna Kazuko. Ella cocinó sushi y preparó una mesa con platos tradicionales de Japón.
Ella vino de Japón con su Esposo: tsutomu. Él es voluntario de Jaica. Ellos me recibieron en su departamento del barrio de Retiro.
Ellos vivieron antes en Tarija, Bolivia. Allí empezaron a hablar Español.
Ellos me contaron sobre sus comidas y tradiciones japonesas. Ellos me mostraron sus costumbres y me explicaron porque están en Argentina. Me dijeron que les gustó Iguazú y otras ciudades que visitaron en Argentina, Uruguay y Bolivia.
Nosotros comimos y bebimos por 3 horas, y hablamos del futuro del medio ambiente en Argentina.

Tsutomu se especializó en ese tema y la semana pasada dio un seminario sobre el tema.
Ellos me impresionaron con su simpatía e inteligencia.

Muchas gracias - Arigatô gozaimasu

Taking a Taxi

By Phone

Necesito un taxi (or remis)

desde= From (your address)

a= to (your destination.

For Example:

Necesito un taxi desde Avenida Santa fe 000 a Defensa 00

Mi dirección es ...

Mi numero de telefono es... (They request it to confirm).

Demora= delay

taxi driver =Chofer

Necesitar = Need

llegar a = To get to + ( st name and number)

vuelto=change

moneda=coin

billete=bill

boleto= ticket

"Pay ALWAYS wit small change..."

If you feel walking say: Acá, Por Favor (here, please) ....and indicate with your finger ...

Taxi service in downtown Buenos Aires______$ 3.10 (minimum)
* A partir del 1° de junio, la tarifa de taxi en la Capital aumentará el 22,58 %.La bajada de bandera pasará de $ 3,10 a 3,80.From June 1st, taxi tariff in Capital will increase 22,58%. Flagfall from $3,10 to $3,80M.

Party review

Yesterday after my teaching day and I was Happy because I got home-made Sushi from Kazuko a lovely japanese lady she is my student for about 4 months.
Then thanks to samuel warde a creative journalist and photographer and proud father of Goodmorningba last night I had a great time at the cocktail party of Internations a global networking site for expatriates.

about 70 people were in attendance and We got 2 for 1 drink specials... I drunk malbec ... and the 20% discount on food at "Freak"
What about Freak ?? it´s a contemporary design restaurant in Palermo, they serve sushi but I had at midday so I enjoy eating their pasta. I asked for Raviolones de Ricota with Salsa de champagne...

For your budget information see the bill

The internations Ambassadors are planning upcoming events and they´ll rotate these events in various neighborhoods

Costumbres argentina* argentinian costums

Boca Juniors beat arch-rivals River Plate 1-0 on Sunday

Well humor and futball are together and when something happen in repetitive way ... We say: Otra vez sopa!

Now Boca Jrs. feels like a good Father... it´s mean River is like a son and need to learn more about how to play football...The other funs take it so badly!

La palabra del día: Renunció

Renunciar: to renounce, give up, to resign

Renunció Lousteau. Se adelantó al despido, no le aceptaron un plan contra la inflación (lo reemplaza hoy Carlos Fernández) *Ambito

Renuncia Martín Lousteau y
lo reemplaza Carlos Fernández
Tras la ola de rumores, se efectivizó la
salida del funcionario; toma su lugar el
hasta ahora titular de la AFIP; el
conflicto con el campo y la política
antiinflacionaria, las principales causas
del alejamiento *La Nación

cover of the magazine

Picture Jennifer Brewer

Farmers’ conflict in Argentina

Los conflictos generan las reacciones más verdaderas, espontáneas y profundas de una sociedad.
La sociedad actual argentina demuestra que el cacerolazo es el medio mas genuino de expresión directa de su parecer y demuestra tristemente que no tiene fieles y leales representantes de su voz: no el gobierno ejecutivo, no el poder legislativo, ni el judicial, tampoco el “Cuarto poder”. Es visible que quien manda realmente es el PUEBLO ARGENTINO.
En Argentina hay un cambio profundo… han caído las vendas… han cambiados los símbolos y los lugares de referencia.
“La plaza es nuestra” ahora es la plaza es de todos. Lo que allí se dice, expresa se y escucha más allá del patoterismo. La razón está venciendo a la fuerza.
No señores, ni La Plaza ni el Sillón son propiedad individual son símbolos de la demo (pueblo)cracia (gobierno).
Como en el judaísmo con la caída del Templo se llevo a cada mesa judía el santuario del Shabbat, así ahora los argentinos tienen en cada hogar el templo de la libertad, el libre pensamiento. En cada hogar, en cada cocina de donde salen las cacerolas se respira democracia.
El cambio real no está en el discurso, en el verso, está en lo que ya nadie puede predecir… la reacción de la gente.
No hay “ganado” para llevar a las marchas… hay seres humano con Derechos Humanos, con opiniones, ideas y deseos de progresar.

“Alcanzarán la grandeza los sencillos de corazón”

y esto no es una cuestión de género

volunteer opportunity in Mosconi (salta)

Are you planning to travel to Salta, while you`re in Argentina or in your journey???
General Mosconi is an small town in northern province Salta. We are looking for volunteers to teach and practice English with children and youth.
Your role will be to support English language teacher so teaching language experience is a must or other educational experience is welcome.
Http://www.voluntarios.tripod.com
Send us your email with your infomation, experience and expectation to: cosa@argentina.com

Au-pair

I'll be in Buenos Aires from march 21st till april 3rd. I'm looking for an au pair girl to live with us in Los Angeles, California. Please contact me at fanti14@yahoo.com if interested and can call yourself honest, willing to work, very good with children, positive attitude and absolutely non smoker. Please put "au pair from argentina" in the subject of your email. Looking forward to meeting you in Buenos Aires.