I haven't posted for a couple of weeks. My bad. It hasn't been for a lack of content: there are always tons of stories to tell: but rather a lack of time. Last week was especially stressful, and I'll try...

Someone asked on my blog: A lot of people say that argentinians are arrogant, lazy and slutty, how would you describe argentinians? - anónimo "I actually just had conversations about one of...

I had a rather interesting reaction to the recent pio article about Whitman's liberal culture. I too feel like a political outsider at Whitman. To be quite frank, I, along with the vast majority of Argentines,...

For a long time, I have believed that real change is impossible within the US electoral system. I was lost and confused: all my life I have been taught the value and legitimacy of elections, and it is...

This post was going to be a happy one, but I am having trouble uploading pictures, so instead I will talk about something else that has been on my mind; my class Industrial Pollution in Japan.  Right...

Last Monday, I asked one of my friends from Movimiento Sur if we had any stickers that I could use. He pulled out two, "Binner, Presidente" and "Malvinas Argentinas Siempre" Malvinas, Forever Argentine Las...

  Today, it rained. We've had a couple days of rain before, but mostly of the drizzle and sprinkle varieties. Today, it was rain all day; big, heavy drops dripping down from a uniformly gray...

PART 2: DEMOCRACY Politics in Argentina is a very different game, in large part because the political system is not fascist like that of the U.S. In the U.S, everywhere you look there are only two...

At this point, I've settled into my host family's home: at least a little bit. Orientation week is over, and tomorrow, classes start. I'm going to have to accept that there will come a time, most likely...

Yesterday, one of my Argentine friends asked me if we had political parties in the U.S. aside from the Democrats and Republicans. I replied that no, we don ´t, 99 percent of the votes go to either the...