In February of 2004 I moved from Los Angeles, California to Buenos Aires, Argentina in order to end years of living way too far away from my girlfriend. This blog is mainly, but not exclusively, about my new life in BA and how I am adjusting to the transition.
If I were cool enough to make an external iPod battery pack out of an Altoids tin I would be very pleased with myself.
Air conditioning, give me air conditioning.... I'm here trying to work in my apartment and struggling to maintain focus. I've already taken three showers today, I think. It's hard to keep track of them anymore. I've taken to going out to eat lunch just to enjoy the air conditioned restaurant. I've told Susana, if it's like this for our wedding in February I'm going to rent a hotel room along with my family, so I can have air conditioning.
I'm not a person who has a very strong connection to the university that I went to, except for the strong friendships that I made while there. Nevertheless, it was kind of cool and funny to be driving down the street here and see a Honda SUV in front of me with a "Cal" sticker on the back window. Cool to be so far away from California and see someone else who went to Berkeley. Funny because I'm sure that nobody in Buenos Aires knows what that sticker refers to. I explained to Susana that UC Berkeley is called "California" or "Cal" because it was the first university of the UC system.
I see a poor, malnourished horse with blinders on and head bowed towards the ground pulling a cart piled high with collected cardboard and scraps, and I feel bad for that horse's life which is obviously brutal.
