Get a job!

Three weeks ago today I left the US. It seems like much longer, but I guess that's because every experience is new. Things are going fine so far: I don't feel homesick, I'm more confident speaking Spanish and I'm starting to know my way around the city.

On Monday I begin an internship. I'll be working with a consultant who has his own company and supports the server infrastructure for serveral other small companies. It's a bit outside the city proper; I think it will take me about 45 minutes to get there from where I live now. That's not much time, actually, because there are places in the city that take much longer to reach. My plan is to work for him for about a month and then decide whether to continue or not. He's going to try to get me some opportunities to deal directly with clients for speaking practice.

For my Spanish conversation classes I've been reading some stories by well-known Argentina authors and then discussing them in class. It's been fun to get some ideas of Argentina literature, and plus it gives me something to talk about in class.

Friday is a holiday here, so I have a chance to spend the day as I please. Maybe I'll go to Tigre. It's a little ways outside the city itself, apparently in a rich area which several people have told me is worth seeing. I need to do some research to find out what to see there.

For the past day and a half subway hasn't run because of a strike. So far it hasn't affected me too much, but they say traffic is a lot worse and the lines for the bus are longer.

Today I went looking for an apartment, but I didn't have any luck. There aren't very many apartments available for rent in the neighborhood I was looking at. I did see one, but the huge dead roach in the kitchen convinced me to look elsewhere. (Of course I was assured that they were all gone now since the building had just been fumagated. I offered to sell him some mountain-top property in Florida in return.)