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Christmas in Buenos Aires

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

Ever since I left Ireland 6 months ago I’ve been planning Christmas. The only problem with my plan was that it kept changing every few days. I wanted to go to a beach, wanted to go home and wanted to stay in Nicaragua all at the same time, In the end I decided to meet up with two people I worked with in Nicaragua, Christian and Ylva.

The next problem with Christmas was agreeing what day to celebrate it, Ylva is Swedish and they celebrate on the 24th, same day as the Argentinians. Christian and I were avid campaigners for the 25th. But as we were in the area we decided to follow the locals and so signed up to a dinner with our fellow hosteliers. One of whom, Richard, I kept asking if he was excited about Christmas, and had he any plans for it. To which he always politely informed me he was Jewish. Took me about half an hour to forget and ask again.
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