Finally made it. Needed a job. Went to my alma mater EBC TEFL and they helped me get started - again.

What a great bunch of guys. www.ebc-tefl-course.com if anyone is interested. I'd recommend it to anyone. Anyway thanks to them, I can now live, breathe, eat and drink once again.

Enough of that.

Came over to meet the girlfriend but alas we were apart too long and so now I'm all alone. Yahoo cos the women over here are seriously attractive.

BA is a great place. You read all this gloomy stuff about it in the papers but it's crap as usual. BA is a great place, really lively and loads of stuff going on.

Beers to recommend: numero uno - has got to be Imperial followed by Quilmes Cristal and Brahma. BA is seriously civilised, you can buy beer in 1 litre bottles and in the supermarket it costs about 2 Pesos and then you get 58 cents back when you return the empties. So in reality it costs about 50 US cents a litre.

Other stuff. It's a real culture shock for me to come to a Spanish speaking city and kind of feel at home. BA is wierd in this respect. It's like being in Europe except you're not. Half the buildings look like they belong in Paris, the rest look like they belong in London.

The people are really friendly as well but their Spanish is a bit odd at first. It took me a while to get used to it.

It's a bit more difficult to find a flat over here but by no means impossible. One thing though that I was worried about was earning enough. This was quickly put to rest when I found out I could earn getting on for 2,000 Pesos a month. I share a flat and it costs me 350 Pesos a month. The rest is pure spending and it's so cheap out here the spending money goes a long way.

Now I've got the job sorted, I've got to get the rest of my "social agenda" fixed up too.

More news as I delve more into the local culture and wildlife.