Brazil has certainly been a trip. Not only in the sense of vacation but also in the sense of inducing surprise. This country is one of the most (if not THE most) scenic, picturesque places I've been in my life. From the bustling work-oriented city of Sao Paulo to the "can-party" attitude of Rio de Janeiro, all the while having an strong colonial history in world heritage site cities like Paraty, Brasil has left me speechless. Back on December 26 I said my goo...

Well, my final day in Argentina has finally come. It's 2:40 in the morning on December 26th as I begin to blog and after an extremely eventful week, I'm glad that I convinced myself to write what I had done down, for exactly this reason. Way back (or so it seems) on December 15th, I wrapped up the final day of my internship. It was the least productive day I had to date, mainly because my intern advisor offered me to read the letter of recommendation that he p...

To say the least, the last few weekends have touched the extremes of both chaos and total relaxation. Today is Sunday, the end of an eventful 4 day weekend and the first day of my last week in Buenos Aires, which until about 10 minutes ago, I hadn't realized. Well, where to even begin? Since I've last written, a lot has actually changed. To start, I slowly shifted from being one of the newer people in the house to being the senior, despite feeling that I just go...

Hi everyone. To be honest, there hasn't been much going on in the last couple of weeks, but as to not forget the little things that have happened, I thought it would be a novel idea to write a few things down. Buenos Aires is business as usual, the city is getting hotter, the subway is getting more crowded, and more and more people from the house are beginning to depart and go onto their separate adventures either off towards Peru and Bolivia or into Brazil mos...

It is now Monday morning, I am back in Buenos Aires after a short weekend trip to Montevideo, Uruguay. What a strange place that was, I have to say.... If you map it, Buenos Aires and Montevideo are much closer by water than by land, so the most common way to travel to Uruguay is by boat. So Thursday night, on the 11:59 PM boat, my new friend Richie and I left for Montevideo. Three hours by boat to Colonia, Uruguay and then another two and a half hours by bus to...