Sweet Home Buenos Aires

The Bar

Friday night found us out wandering around the outside of the Recoleta cemetery deciding which of the popular tourist restaurants to take our dinner. Touts handed out cards, hostesses offered discount steaks, but what really got us was (of course) the cover band playing Oasis. So we sat down, ordered the first of many beers, enjoyed a delicious chorizo and listened to perhaps the most terrible and most entertaining cover band I've heard in a while. They had a passable CCR Rolling on a River, but generally their style was to take popular American tunes and change all the lyrics into Espanol. Their greatest achievment (or so it seemed- they broke into it about 4 times) was a crowd pleasing take on Skynard that went something like "Sweet Home Buenos Aires (Aires, Aires, Aires), donde el cielo es tan azul."

Habitat para la Humanidad

Saturday we woke up bright and early and worked with a group of Accenture folks on a Habitat project oustide of BsAs. It was great fun to be back doing construction, playing with rebar and racing wheelbarrow (no welding or bobcatting this time though). Turns out you build houses here in pretty much the same way you build them in Thailand: concrete, concrete and more concrete. It was also a fun way to practice my construction Spanish and meet some more people including the American guy in charge of building the house who is down here volunteering in Argentina for a couple of months and gave me a good opportunity to reminise. One thing that was not very fun was waking up sore as shit the next day, apparently my 'mound of dirt shovelling' stnace needs some work.

Mi Casa

By popular demand (100% of the people I spoke to this week requested it), here are some pictures of the apartment.

Getting out of the house - San Telmo
Ok, I know, lame way to tie this to the home theme, but I spent Sunday wandering around the feria (market) in San Telmo which was great, and wanted to put up a 'classic' tango picture: