Tina's wanderings around the world

I think that possibly one of my favorite parts of traveling is the bus ride (assuming that travel is taking place during the day, because at night you can’t see anything, people seem creepier, and stuff gets stolen!). Though this admission is quite possibly made easier due to the fact that one of my Spanish teachers (sad Lucia) was forward enough to inform me that one of her favorite parts of traveling is the bus ride, and with her very forward admission, I was able to feel as though there’s nothing wrong with passage being a favorite part of travel. Because someone else was saying it, and not me and because if I were to admit something like that, I would probably feel as though something were wrong with that since traveling really has more to do with seeing the destination than the process of getting there. Well, I judge myself more than others could possibly judge me (preemptive strike, and a habit that I am in the process of correcting). Blither blather. Anyhew, I love sitting in a ...

Buenos Aires truly is a strange city, and Argentina an unpredictable country. You never know what's waiting for you around the corner. Last week, I started the week in shorts and a tank top, as I had heard that the temperature was going to be dropping later in the week. In the states, we learn not to believe the weatherman, as he can be so completely right or wrong--it's like a big guess! We use the word "prediction" accurately. Well, I tried not to believe the prediction but just in case I figured I should get some good usage out of my shorts and skirts. We're talking it was super warm , people. But come friday, there I was in my little skirt because I saw sun out that morning, and boy was I wrong. I went home from school that day so flipping cold! The next day it was even worse. In the space of two days, the temperature dropped 20 degrees C (read that as it dropped from the 80's, 90's to 50's, 60's). I would like to say that I am in the land of e...

As we all know I have been ridiculously addicted to my computer lately, I have been doing a lot of news-reading, which has been pretty fun, actually. Did you know that they have started opening up hostel-like workplaces where freelancers can rent workspace and be around other freelancers and therefore be more "social" during the day? Kinda fun, kinda strange...anyway...I've been reading about all of the human rights protests that have surrounded the Olympic torch world tour. It all started in London where a few fanatic Tibet supporters tried to extinguish the flame, an act that was followed with equal vigor in Paris. San Francisco was also very vocal about their support of Tibet, though I didn't read about any flame-extinguishing attempts and I think only a few people were put in jail for hanging Tibetan-support banners on the Golden Gate bridge. Wow, all kinds of excitement going on around the Olympics, human rights support and protests...when I learned that the torc...

I can easily say that I have become far too addicted to my computer. I spend hours a day reading and writing email, sometimes reading the news and most lately, watching discovering how to watch Scrubs for free online (though I found a website the other day where I can watch a ton of movies online for free...ooh, so bad and so good!). The Scrubs will end soon, though, because I'm almost done watching all of the episodes that are actually posted for me to watch for free online which means that after that's done, it won't be poking me in the back of the head saying, "Watch me....you know you want to watch me..." But I do manage to get out about and do things. I haven't quite ended my baking strike in this house, but it's going to come to a close here pretty soon. Marcus sent me a cookie recipe book and now I have ganas to bake even more than before! I already went through and starred all of the recipes that I want to make and last night I began by making co...