Disfrutando del fruto de mi trabajo

Nada mejor que una empanada después de la experiencia de hacerlas

Luchando con la masa

Preparando el relleno

Con Toti controlando para no quemar las cebollas...

Jugando al Tenis

I played tennis against one of my Spanish teachers, Diego for the second time on Tuesday night. We played two sets and tied 1-1. Playing on clay courts is a lot of fun. The main difference is it is hard to run fast so if you come to the net, it is easy to get lobbed.

Curtis Kaiser

Del Blog de un alumno de Experiencia Buenos Aires

This is Ariel my spanish teacher. I found him and his school, Experiencia Buenos Aires (the Buenos Aires experience) because I was talking to a bartender who used to be a Spanish teacher with Ariel. I was asking for a recommendation of a school and she suggested I call him.

This school´s philosophy is based less on classroom teaching and more on getting out into the city and practicing your spanish there.

On Wednesday, I went to a traditional spanish school and took a two-hour grammar lesson. It was painful. Basically, my Spanish vocabulary is great, but apparently I talk something like this (Next Tuesday, I went to the movies, then I will go to the restaurant).

I don´t know if I want to spend my whole trip working on that, so I signed up for Experiencia Buenos Aires. Basically, I sat down with Ariel and the other teacher Diego and told them what activities I wanted to do (improve my spanish, play tennis on a clay court, try tango, learn more about Argentinian politics and history, see an Argentinian movie and discuss it, learn how to cook one Argentinian meal). Then, I pay them about $8 an hour and we do the activities along with a pre-lesson (e.g. flashcards for tango vocabulary before the tango club)and then do the activitity while they correct all of my Spanish errors.
Curtis Kaiser

Nuestro Norte es el Sur

Este nombre nace de una frase y un dibujo de un artista uruguayo llamado Joaquín Torre García. Una buena frase para un proyecto de aprendizaje, una perspectiva diferente. Decir "nuestro norte" es como decir nuestros sueños, nuestros objetivos, nuestra utopía.
“He dicho escuela del Sur; porque en realidad, nuestro norte es el Sur. No debe haber norte, para nosotros, sino por oposición a nuestro Sur. Por eso ahora ponemos el mapa al revés, y entonces ya tenemos justa idea de nuestra posición, y no como quieren en el resto del mundo. La punta de América, desde ahora, prolongándose, señala insistentemente el Sur, nuestro norte.”(Joaquín Torres García. Universalismo Constructivo, Bs. As. : Poseidón, 1941.)
Ariel Carpio