full on emersion

So I have been having to do a lot of old, Spanish literature reading for many of my classes and I have finally stumbled across some that I like.  Here is a poem written by Jorge Manrique during the mid 1400's.

Este mundo es el camino

para el otro, que es morada

sin pesar;

mas cumple tener buen tino

para andar esta jornada

sin errar.

Partimos cuando nacemos, 

andamos mientras vivimos, 

y llegamos

al tiempo que fenecemos;

asi que cuando morimos 

descansamos.

Go ahead and look it up if you are so inclined! Yesterday we went to Casa Rosada and we got a tour of the inside.  Casa Rosada is the equivalent to the White House in the United States.  The President, Cristina Kirchner, does not live there, by comes to the house by helicopter every single day.  This is where all the important press conferences, bill passing, and ambassadors to other countries come to meet with the highest authorities in Argentina.  What I have concluded from my local friends here is that the majority of them are not in favor of Kirchner.  I have been told that all of the poor people love her, but the working class and upper class does not.  

On the balcony at Casa Rosada

Puerto Madero (Ship is in the background)

After the tour, my friends and I meet up with our local friend, Maia.  Maia is a law student here in Buenos Aires and has been such an amazing friend.  We all went to THE BEST PIZZA PLACE IN THE WORLD, Kentucky Pizza.  It is a chain here and it is honestly the best tasting pizza I have ever had.  We then took our sight-seeing to Puerto Madero where we toured an old war ship.