So I´m here. My flight landed Saturday morning, and I took a 2-hour bus to Downtown (Microcentro) where I´m staying. I´ve been spending most of my time walking around to get a feel for the town.

It´s strange, because right now Argentina is going through a severe economic crisis - a crisis that´s as bad, if not worse, than the early days of the Great Depression were for the USA. As a result, it´s hard to know if certain things you see are part of the culture, or are just because of the times. For instance - it´s a pretty dirty town. At first I thought it was because of the economic crisis. But no, the city is actually cleaner now than before, because their are so many people (´`recyclistas´´ is the polite word) who clean the streets of anything remotely recylable in order to sell it. The more I talk to people, the better feel I´ll get I suppose - it´s just difficult when you have no point of reference.

No picture today - I´m guessing there´s too many up already and it´s slowing down everyone´s computers. I´ll try to get rid of all the pictures on the main page - I´m new to this blogging thing.