Porteños and Vecinos

Living in Buenos Aires, I want to try to be a Porteno! It comes from the word 'Port' for a person who works/lives in the harbor. In gerenal Portenos means the citizens of the the city.Those Portenos living around me are my 'Vecinos' (= neighbours/neighborhood).The neighborhood here is very quiet,calm and warm. Everyone has holidays here and schools will start their year in beginning of March. Then we will be leaving Buenos Aires and go to the country side. The Vecinos/neighborhood is different than were I live in Sout Africa. In the morning everyone goes with the bus to work and there are hardly any private car to see. Only cars for work eg money for banks or plumbing cars). There is a lot of gravity and advertisement on the walls and houses. Everywhere there are posters of this drink called "Epika". It looks really nice and tasty on the posters. There are lots and lots of posters, but no one sells it and some even don't know what it is at all!!!!

A famous local

Here they mainly eat pizza, pasta and meat. So on the menu of the restaurants there are Pizzas or Asado (braaivlees). In South Africa everyone eats supper at 6 or 7 o'clock, but here they eat supper at 22:00 -also the children.They have markets on Thursday and Sunday where they only sell old stuff eg.(compass, old cutlery etc.......). In San Telmo there is also an inside market where they sell fruit and vegetables and of course meat. (but it smells a lot!!)
Everyone in the parks and in the streets drink from small round wooden mugg's with a metal straw, in which you put special kind of green, dry tea, which you have to let dry for a day and then poor hot water in. You then drink the tea with the metal straw you and fill it up with warm water from a flask.
On every corner of the street there is a police officer standing, but..................

Steven in the trash can.

The homeschooling went really well until one of the students were very naughty!!!!


                                                                


           STOLEN!!!

Reward for stolen phone!!

When we went to a museum/the government museum we had to go through a scanner machine to check our bags if we didn't have weapons and then . . We put our phone and camera in the bag and when it came out of the scanner ........ MY DAD"S IPHONE WAS STOLEN!!!! This was the first time something was stolen of him. Well except when we went to Thailand and his bag of clothes were stolen. But this now was something very valuable so we went to the security/police and there was a very kind manager there who helped us. We checked the videocameras, but could only see the entrance, one step away from where it happened. This was the theory: when my dad put his phone in his side pocket of the bag and put it in the scanner he went to get it on the other side, but it was gone by then. The security said that it would have dropped and someone would have taken it and sold it for money.I guess we will never find out what really did happen?????????????????????????????!!!!

Weird Beard!!!

Walking on the street in Buenos Aires- in the heat- you see many people with piercings and tattoos, many wearing jeans or dark clothes. Strange in this Sunny City. Also many man have beards. The last couple of days I 'investigated' how this is 

possible. Why in comparison with other countries I visited have these man Beards?. 

Vecinos

My Vecinos/neighbors who lives the floor on top of our apartment have a Dad, Mom, son and a daughter, of 18 years. We first met our neighbors when we were hanging our wash to dry on the roof of our building. We saw the mother showering in her bikini like always and her daughter was there too. She could speak English very well and she was a very happy girl. She is studying yo be a journalist to help Argentina and to write about government,she is also studying to be a film producer. She was looking for work to earn money during her summer holidays. She says that her mom works very hard too, but we mostly see her showering or shouting.I have interviewed Analia  (the girl):

1. How do you want to change Argentina by acting?
2. Would you want to move somewhere else?
3. What do you like in Argentina?
4. What do you  dislike in Argentina?

1. Slowly,step by step.The importance 
2. She is born in Uruguay.Has been travelling a bit.She would want to travel more,but would want to live in Moskou.
3. Analia likesthe nature that Argentina has Mountains,a lot of culture,work, country is improving.She says that Argentina has everything!!
4. She dislikes social violence and there is lots of robbery.Bad economic distribution.

For all the dutch people who are following us and cant really understand in English I am also writing it in Dutch  http://blogs.rnw.nl/wereldkids/  my last 2 blogs will and has  been  on wereldkids on the  27 and will be on the 31 January.

Gracias amigos

Louisa

When I went in the government building I was lost and went in a the wrong room.

At market