Hola! Well, our day trip to Uruguay was fun. We were very lucky as it was really sunny, so after the 3 hour ferry trip we just wandered round the old part of the town. It was really pretty and traditional with little coloured houses and cobbled streets. There were a few strange musuems that we looked around and we also climbed the lighthouse for a good view of the town. It was very peaceful and tranquil in comparision to the crazyness that is BA! We had a lush l...

Hola mis amigos!After all the complaints we have been getting, we thought it was about time we wrote another blog entry! Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of last week were rather uneventful as we just went to our teaching placements and cooked dinner for ourselves. The orphanage session went a lot better as we took in some beads and made jewellery with them which they all seemed to enjoy. We did go out for a couple of drinks at a trendy bar down the road on Wednes...

Hola! Firstly we should apologise for not writing for so long but we have been extremely busy getting up to lots of things here. On Monday, Becki had her first experiences of teaching, with one class of elderly ladies at lunch time and an adult class in the evening, which Jen came along to for moral support. It all went ok as they spoke really good English so it wasn't too scary after all! That evening we went to a welcome dinner with all the other v...

Hola Everyone!We have arrived in Buenos Aires (BA) and had quite a lively few days here. We were picked up from the airport and had to endure an hour long, rather scary taxi ride to our hostel. The hostel is really nice and we have a big four bed dorm that even has wardrobes in it and everything! We had to have a nap to recover from our early start and we then met our contact from the placement company who told us all about BA and our teaching, which scared us a ...