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.

Black friday in Buenos Aires

Check good deals in Peru st. and Avenida de Mayo in downtown Buenos Aires!!

Festival aéreo en Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires, El congreso, La avenida de Mayo y La gran avenida 9 de julio fueron sobrevolados por la escuadra Francesa y 3 aviones argentinos "pampa"





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Spring and art in Buenos Aires

Art is showing how spring is coming to Buenos Aires ...

Here Ostrich eggs are elements of art and filete porteño

Tango

Programación del Mundial de Tango en Buenos Aires

Pa´la milonga

Fin de Año en Buenos Aires

The End of the year 2008 is coming with several cultural and social celebrations in Buenos Aires.

The summer cool down these days but not the rythm of th dynamic Tango´s capital.

Visitors and local join all the parties like the monthly Internations gathering.



This time the terrace at Sula bar was the stage of exchange talks, beers, planning trips, wine glasses and color!!

monthly Internations party

A hot night...Nice people exchanging travel information and excuses to stay in Buenos Aires plus a nice place and agradable Samuel WynnWoods hosting us is a permanent characteristic for internations gatherings...

I wait for the monthly meeting when even you get to meet future President Barack Obama represented in a doll...

Simply: A good memory from your stay in Buenos Aires

Primavera... spring

Psychology and Psychotherapy in Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires Journal; Doctor, Why Do I Keep Dreaming of Argentina?

This article was written by CLIFFORD KRAUSS for NYTimes in 1998 … 10 years before!! And still so update than I wanted to share and comment some parts and say my consideration about it…
When rush-hour traffic gets him down, Andres Cornejo pulls his taxicab over to the curb and opens his trunk to his collection of Sigmund Freud. His frustrations quickly melt away, he said, as he reads Freud’s theories on dreams and the development of the infantile libido.
It could be also a bus driver too..??!! why always taxi drivers? Specially now they´re debating about lanes. But Frustration is deep here more than those years…
Like many Argentines, Mr. Cornejo, 38, has been through years of psychotherapy. He said he had had serious relationships with two psychologists, is in love with a third and is seriously considering going back to school to become a psychologist himself.
Argentines??? Well this is a proper characteristic of “porteños” only , I can´t imagine a hardworking gaucho laying down in a couch at this moment with so big farmer crisis.!
”I don’t know if I am in love with psychoanalysis, or just with psychologists,” Mr. Cornejo said with a laugh. Either way, his overriding interest — you might call it obsession — is as thoroughly Argentine as the tango.
Cheating!! we call this to be cheating on= Engañar
There are more psychologists in Argentina per capita — 111 for every 100,000 inhabitants — than in any country in the world except Uruguay, Argentina’s small neighbor. New York and Buenos Aires are neck-and-neck for the distinction of being the city with the most psychotherapists, including psychologists and psychiatrists, over all. And the number of Argentine psychologists is growing, from 5,500 in 1974, to 20,100 in 1985, to an estimated 37,000 today. There are also more than 2,500 psychoanalysts with medical degrees in Argentina.
Uruguay, Argentina’s small neighbor… well, they don´t deserve such lack of respect even they area polluting our river

”Argentines are passionate about understanding themselves and making their lives better and happier through self-knowledge,” said Lucia R. Martinto de Paschero, president of the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association.
Mrs. Martinto is right but it´s relate to human-being
The numbers tell only part of the story, since it is hard to count the ways Argentines express their abiding interest in analyzing their egos and psyches.
Probably nowadays the best way argentines express their abiding interest to make “their lives better” is banging pots and not in a couch so How many therapist lost their work?… I wonder how many psychoanalyst lernt English in order to analyze the niche of turist-resident and ex-pats??
Television and radio talk shows featuring psychologists fill the airwaves with daily psychobabble. Pagina 12, a leading Buenos Aires newspaper, devotes two pages of coverage to psychological matters every Thursday. A hot rock band in Argentina calls itself The Paranoid Rats, while another is known as The Crazy Old Ladies.
Ok, this is past time … Now is the time of “Bailando por un sueño” people reject to think about problems and switched tv .
One neighborhood in Buenos Aires, a part of the Palermo district, has so many psychologists as residents that it has come to be known as Villa Freud. The neighborhood is graced by a popular restaurant that goes by the name Bar Sigi and serves a concoction of cognac and vanilla named after the father of psychoanalysis.
Now there are pubs, shops, handcarft and markets there!!
Argentines talk about going to their therapist as openly as they discuss going to the butcher, and expensive therapy is as much a part of middle-class life as a summer weekend on the beaches of Mar del Plata or a season opera ticket at the Teatro Colon.
I beg to differ but what is a butcher?? Meat?? It´s so expensive... And let´s not talk about Teatro Colón !!!! When it will be open again??
But Argentine interest in psychology goes beyond the middle class. There are inexpensive psychology clinics in virtually every neighborhood of Buenos Aires, social security covers mental health problems, and elementary schools typically send young children with reading problems to psychologists as a first course of remedial education.
Middle class?? … yes it was 10 years before…
Argentines who seek psychotherapy typically say that their country is fraught with neurosis. They note that there is a high incidence of anorexia among Argentines, and Buenos Aires drivers are known as among the most aggressive in the world. National obsessions include fitness, plastic surgery and stylish dressing. But leading psychologists here say there is no evidence that Argentines are more neurotic than other peoples, and the alcoholism and crime rates are low by Latin American standards.
I think we´re exporting anorexia, plastic surgery, stylish dressing coming from clandestine factory. Please review also crime rates subject too!
”There is still no systematic sociological or anthropological study that explains why there is such an interest in psychology here,” said Modesto M. Alonso, a leading Argentine psychologist. ”There are only theories.”
So why psychologyst don´t help with the survey??
Felipe A. Noguera, a political analyst and pollster, speculated that ”Argentina is a very frustrated society because it has long suffered a crisis of expectations.” That crisis, he said, is rooted in a long period of economic expansion between 1880 and 1930, followed by a 60-year slump characterized by political instability, recession and hyperinflation.
Add also the background of sadness and nostalgia coming from ”ex-rich-in Europe” relatives
”Until very recently,” he added, ”people would say, ‘I work hard but I can’t own a home. I study hard but I have a limited future.’ So many years of frustration created an archetype of negativity, a world view of things being a disaster in Argentina.”
Blocked= bloqueado is the key-word
In the 1970’s the right-wing military junta singled out psychology as a national problem, blaming psychologists and psychoanalysts for the country’s negativity and navel-gazing. Several prominent psychologists disappeared.
So, time shows it wasn´t the only thing to blame and they maked dissapear also doctors, teacher, students, religious, secular… and the list is so long… Where are they? Where is Lopez?
Argentina first became a world-class center for psychotherapy in the 1940’s, when a wave of European immigrants included several prominent Jewish psychoanalysts from Germany and Austria. Today a large proportion of the country’s psychotherapists and patients are Jews, whose population of 250,000 is one of the largest in the world outside Israel and the United States.
Important activities like Yidish theatre (culture)… cooperative ideas (economy)… trade unionism (social and labor)… are other contributions from Jewish immigration
But the large number of Jews and Argentina’s interest in all European intellectual fashions do not explain the longstanding national interest in psychology, nor why the themes of alienation and loneliness have such deep roots in the national psyche and culture. The gaucho in 19th-century Argentine literature*, for example, is an estranged outlaw, expelled by society, living between the worlds of the Indian and urban society. *Tango, which is as much a national ritual as a dance, is a fusion of haunting laments and premonitions of sad things to come.
*Yes, this the gaucho but in literature only let´s not forget Martín Miguel de Güemes in Salta, just to say one Heroic Hero.
* The natinal dance is Pericón, not Tango.
Newspaper reading was the domain of the intelligentsia and upper class in Argentina until the 1930’s, when the tabloid Critica vastly expanded its circulation by inviting readers to send in contributions describing their dreams. Soon after, a popular publishing house known for distributing translations of Tarzan books put out a serial collection of books called ”Freud for All” that became a national sensation.
”That showed that the entire Argentine public is disposed to an interest in psychology, and not just the intellectuals,” said Hugo Vezzetti, a psychology professor at the University of Buenos Aires.
It talks about Domingo Faustino Sarmiento´s ideals (1811-1888)
In recent years, psychological analysis has played a major part in both popular and high culture. Ernesto Sabato’s renowned novel ”On Heroes and Tombs” investigated the tortured relationship between a father and his daughter. Leopoldo Torre Nilsson, one of Argentina’s leading modern film makers, analyzed sexuality and guilt in his films ”The Fallen” and ”The House of the Angel.” Juan Jose Saer, the novelist and poet, described the existential crisis of a journalist married to a psychoanalyst in his popular novella ”The Indelible.” Marcos Aguinis, an author of popular Argentine historical novels, is himself a psychoanalyst.
This paragraphis unquestionable.
Raimundo Salgado, a 58-year-old bookstore owner in Villa Freud, said he was reminded what it means to be an Argentine a few years ago when he went to a Woody Allen movie in Mexico City and he was one of only 15 people in the theater. ”If that movie had been shown in Buenos Aires,” he said, ”there would have been people waiting in line around the block.”

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

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

cover of the magazine

Picture Jennifer Brewer

De Japón a Buenos Aires

①ラテン男性に見る男性的魅力（言葉の効用）
Tomoko Ota, kaigaidekatsuyaku@yahoo.co.jp

ラテン男性。女性の目から見た彼らの魅力は何かと聞かれると、「仕草」「女性との近距離感」「男女関係におけるコミットメントの度合い」など挙げ始めればきりがないが、明確な特徴として挙げられやすい項目一つは‘話の面白さ‘、かと思う。

ただ、口数が多いか、話が面白いか、は、アジア人であろうと、ヨーロッパ人であろうとアフリカ人であろうと、結局は「その人」が持つキャラクターなんだろうけど、一般的にいって、ラテンの男性は口数が多く、ボキャブラリーの豊かさを持つ人が多い、という方程式は成り立つことが多いと思う。

例えば、私が住むここブエノスアイレス（南米アルゼンチン）では、政治にしても、経済にしても、あほちんなことも、けっこう多様な軸で話しができる男性が多いから、一緒に時間を過ごすのにハズレがない。

その後に、友情を築くか、親しい仲になっていくかは別として、確実に楽しい時間が過ごせるのだから、メンズとして評価が高いのはうなずけるのかもしれない。

それに、一般的にいって、女性は、何故だか男性に耳で殺されるところがあるから、男性が話し上手なことがもたらすアドバンテージは低くないように思う。

トピックの多様さで知的さをはかったり（これは男女関係なくだろうが）、言葉の豊かさで彼の男としての幅を感じたり、言葉のテンポや置き方で、男性のロマンチック度を垣間見たり。。。。それに、声のトーンで生命力を感じているようなところがあると思う（意識せずとも）。

話が多いからイイという視点ではなく（沈黙は金、との名言もある）会話の多様さはその男性が相手の情報を引き出すのに長けている事実を表し、それによっていい雰囲気を作り出し、お互いの距離をぐっと縮めやすいという利点は認識してもいいかとの意見。

ただ、話すことがニガテな人も、ご安心を！
女性というのはたいてい話し好きなので、いい質問を投げかけてあげることで、彼女は、あなたの的を得た会話運びに感激するし、あなたの質問に答える形で、彼女は自分のことを話せるので、あなたが何もせずとも勝手に喜んで話し続けている（会話を成り立たせている）だろう。その延長戦であなたの評価も上がっている、んだと思う。

質問上手は、聞き上手。そして会話上手への大手だと思う。

Tomoko Ota es una joven empresaria japonesa y escritora. Su debilidad es el Tango.
Lea más sobre su blog http://kaigaide.exblog.jp/
Página: http://kaigai.her.jp/
Noticias: http://melonpan.net/melonpa/mag-detail.php?mag_id=009526
Tomoko Ota is a young japanese businesswoman and writer. Her weakness is Tango.
Read about her at Blog; http://kaigaide.exblog.jp/
HomePage; http://kaigai.her.jp/
News Letter http://melonpan.net/melonpa/mag-detail.php?mag_id=009526

Mate in Buenos Aires

The infusion called mate is prepared by steeping dry leaves of yerba mate in hot water, Drinking mate with friends from a shared hollow gourd (also called a mate in Spanish), with a metal straw (bombilla) is an extremely common social practice in Argentina.

El "mate experience" es el nuevo servicio para los turistas extranjeros que visitan Buenos Aires y están interesados en Comprender y disfrutar nuestra cultura. Las charlas duran 2 horas y son en Inglés y Hebreo. Más información http://spanishbuenosaires.tripod.com/

"Mate experience" is a new service for foreigners visiting Buenos Aires and are interested in understanding and enjoying our Culture. Meetings and talks last 2 hours on weekends. it`s are conducted in English and hebrew. Further information http://spanishbuenosaires.tripod.com/