La Cumbre – en Español
While it may seem like our trip is all fun and games (and it is, mostly), Mel has been taking private Spanish lessons (3 hours/day) for the past few weeks. Well beyond telling time and counting, she can now form entire sentences – in the present AND past tense! And her vocabulary, while still pretty basic, has moved well beyond fruits and basic introductions. Her teacher Celeste (are all Spanish teachers hot? Rosa?) has also worked hard to teach her Argentinian slang – much to the dismay of Papi. Muy copado! In the spirit of doing my homework while blogging, here’s a summary of my weekend in Spanish – sorry to all Spanish speakers, my keyboard is turned to English. English translation to follow.
En español…
Despues de mi clase de español, mi novio y yo cenamos en Club Eros. Fuimos a la terminal de omnibus, pero el collectivo se canceló por el humo. El dia siguiente, yo caminé por Palermo y mi novio trabajó en casa. Esa noche, nosotros fuimos otra vez a la terminal. Doce horas mas tarde, llegamos a Cordoba. Brendan olvidó su carnet de conducir. Yo estuvé enojada. Nosotros dormimos en Villa Benitz – muy linda! Caminamos por el Camino de los Artensanos. Comimos una tabla de quesos y fiambres y una botella de vino Malbec. Despues, fuimos a Juku y bebimos la cerveza casera y comimos una fondue. El domingo, fuimos a hacer parapente. El mirador es muy bonito. Caminamos por La Cumbre y yo practiqué español con los dueños de la Casa de Chocolates. Yo compré los chocolates. Requisimo! El lunes, alquilamos un taxi, pero las estancias estuvieron cerradas. Nosotros volvimos a Buenos Aires en collectivo.
In English…
After my Spanish class, my boyfriend and I had dinner at Club Eros. We went to the bus station but our bus was cancelled because of the smoke from the burning fields. The next day, I went shopping while Brendan worked. Friday night, we once again went to the bus station. Twelve hours later, we arrived in Cordoba. Brendan forgot his driver’s license in Buenos Aires, so our road trip became a bus/taxi/walking trip. I was not pleased with him. We stayed at Villa Benitz – very beautiful! We walked along Caminos del Artisanos. . We had a cheese and meat platter and a bottle of wine at Zagreo – delicious! Later, we went to a micro-brewery and drank beer and ate fondue. On Sunday, we went paragliding. The scenery was beautiful. We walked around La Cumbre and I practiced Spanish with the people at the Chocolate House. I also bought some chocolates. Delicious! On Monday, we rented a taxi but the estancias were closed. We returned to Buenos Aires by bus.
Tags: Argentina, Travel
pichemelanie
April 28th, 2008 at 9:50 am
Hola amiga,
Escribes muy bien!
Vamos al concerto de los Police el Jueves proximo.
Buenas dias,
Laurie
May 1st, 2008 at 1:15 pm
Pero qué rápido que aprende mi alumna!! ja! Muy bien, che! Y qué rico comimos esa noche, no?
Ya volvieron de Salta? Tomamos un café?