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I stole this from spanishstudies.blogspot.com
Partially edited.
Are you from Buenos Aires?
You know you are a porteño when:
- At any time of the day, a café con leche and 2 medialunas can be considered a square meal
- You can, at all times, find a heladería within 3 blocks
- You would much rather be a bostero xeneise than a maldita gallina, and you know what that means
- In your barrio, there are more people on the streets at 3 am than 3 pm
- ¿Qué sé yo?
- Nothing is good anymore, it's bárbaro
- You have learned how to get across Avenida Libertador without getting run over, before the pedestrian light even turns green
- You have accepted the fact that you cannot successfully walk across 9 de Julio before the lights turn red, because everyone knows it's the widest avenue in the world
- You instinctively cross yourself everytime you pass a church, even when riding on the bus
- Your guía Lumi is old and falling apart, but you still won't leave home without it
- You can walk the entire length of Florida without being heckled once by a money-changer or flyer distributor
- $60 is far too much to pay for anything, unless, of course, it is an unbreakable termo para el mate
- You consider both superpancho and choripan to be hearty meals
- Based on taste alone, you can pick out a Terrabusi alfajor in a double-blind test
- You complain about everything while in Buenos Aires, but as soon as you leave, you begin to miss it
- Upon getting into a taxi, instead of stating your destination, you give a series of turns and street names, entering into a battle of wits over who knows the grid best
- You generally communicate better in gestures than actually conversing
- You know the attractive women all over Palermo Hollywood are really men, but that's OK
- You think nothing of hopping on a bus for 15 hours to get away for the weekend
- You don't find it surprising that 2 of these hours are spent leaving the city
- No matter how hectic life gets, you can always find time to tomarse unos mates
- Nothing is cool anymore, it's re-canchero. You and your friends, (who are all capos and copados, obvio) are re-chochos because you just saw a recital that was alucinante.
- You have forgotten your name and now only answer to a string of epithets, such as che, maestro, flaco, papá, tigre, fierita, pibe, etc.
- You don't coges el bus or tomas la guagua, you subís al bondi
- You don't go out to comer, you go to morfar
- You have come to accept the fact that Buenos Aires sometimes huele a mar, even though it's a five hour drive to the ocean
- Fito Paez just passed by on the street and nobody seemed to notice
- A bar at a car wash, a Kosher McDonald's, and a Museo del Jamón all seem to make sense, somehow
- You know where to see the movies for 2 mangos, but still go to Village Recoleta because it's top
- You know that a disco is not a place to dance or a genre of music, but a place to buy food
- You eat sandwiches without crusts, pizza with a knife and fork and empanadas with your fingers
- You find yourself eating ñoquis on the 29th of each month, and not really knowing why
- You stay out till 6 am at a boliche but are still fresh as a daisy for your class at 9
- You mix ketchup and mayo, slather the beastly concoction on everything, and have the audacity to call it salsa golf
- You begin to wonder how Washington D.C. got off copying the obelisco, why London stole Buenos Aires' phone booths and letter boxes, and why Milan’s La Scala operahouse had to steal the blueprints for Teatro Colón
- You get used to the fact that though you live in a port city, you rarely, if ever, see the waterfront.
- You don't find it at all confusing thatthere are streets called Peña, Rodríguez Peña, Luis Saenz Peña and Roque Saenz Peña, all in fairly close proximity. Nor that there are an Yrigoyen and Irigoyen that intersect, despite their different spellings.
- It makes perfect sense that the seediest redlight bars are directly alongside Recoleta cemetery, where the Argentine aristocracy is buried
- You are nostalgic for the bygone days of Carlos Gardel, or of Evita's Casa Rosada speeches, or even Maradonna's "hand of God" goal, even though you never saw any of them
- It doesn't seem to bother you that a "drugstore" sells anything but drugs
- You can get everything delivered to your departamento...from munchies to mariachis
- You consider it rude when you throw a party and people show up on time, while you are still making preparations, obvio...
- You feel comfortable wearing alpargatas just about anywhere
- You can't imagine drinking coffee without briskly following it with a shot glass of mineral water
- You know all the parts of a cow and you're not a butcher or a veterinarian
- You refer to everything outside the capital as the interior of the country
- You realise that Neuquen is a palindrome, Salta a command and Buenos Aires a cruel joke, given the level of air pollution
- No weekend feels complete without a trip to the feria
- You are a self-made expert on EVERYTHING
- Your favourite thing to do is fiaca or huevo, the special actions of not doing anything
- You drink your mate amargo but eat dulce de leche on everything
- You realise that when there is a superclasico, everything halts for el fútbol
- You can find Evita’s grave blindfolded, and know that Carlos Gardel is buried in Chacarita, even though nobody knows for sure where he was born
- Everything is a quilombo
- It seems normal that professional dog walkers are dragged around by up to 20 canines, and that there is a bus to cart dogs around the city to the parks
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For the first time in 89 years, Buenos Aires saw snow on July 10th. Here are some pictures of the temple with a bit of snow.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrclark/sets/72157600821649124/
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Que bueno ;poder saber de uds ; yo servi como misionero entre los años 1994 a 1996 quisiera saber de mis ex compañeros de mision, ya que estoy muy interesado en saber de uds .
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Maricruz! fuiste mi entrenadora. Nunca te olvidaré. Quiero saber de vos TODO! por favor quiero tu mail. Si alguien lo tiene ¿me lo pasan?
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Necesito ubicar a la familia SORIA de Tablada. Si tienen algún dato de ellos (Victoria-Miguel o sus hijos)
Gracias
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Estoy tratando de averiguar la direccion de Emma y Alejandro Lell que viven en General Rodriguez. Creo que viven en Calle Sarmiento pero no se el numero o codigo pastal. Espero que alguien me puede ayudar. Muchas Gracias
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Me gustaria saber el email o direccion del Elder Cutini. Fue mi companero, lo mate!! Si alguien lo sabe, damelo porfi!!
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Are there any senior missionaries out there who are presently serving in the BA West mission or any who have recently left who can answer some questions about the mission, clothes for seniors, housing, etc.
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Busco a Fredy Torres, el Paraguayo. Fuimos companeros y ahora la direccion de email que tengo para el no funciona. Si alguien sabe algo de el o su email, favor de avisarme.
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Que gozo en mi corazón al revisar las fotos y recordar los momentos mas felices de mi vida como soltero, por supuesto, si no me matan. Sin duda es la mejor misión. Servi entre los años 96 a 98 y les aseguro que todo lo que he logrado es gracias a esos dos años de mi vida que entregue al señor. Por supuesto que no fue facil pero si que valio la pena. Tengo una esposa maravillosa y un hijo hermoso (marcelito 2 años) y otro en camino.
¡Como no voy a estar feliz!
Les deseo a todos una feliz navidad. Que Dios les bendiga en sobremanera, Que aya paz en nuestros corazones.
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Any leads on discount airfare to BA?
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I know it is a long shot but.... We are from Buenos Aires and in the first
half of either 1956 or 1957 we had two missionaries visiting us in Florida
(suburb of B.A.). They came very often and we liked them. Unfortunately all
we remember is that the first name of one of them was Danny and that he was
sent to Chile sometimes in May 56 or 57. We live in California since 1958.
Is there any way we can find Danny?
Thanks
Carl and Evelyn Bitzer
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Me casare con Matthew Reno el 20 de agosto, 2005! Nos conocimos hace mas que un ano en mi barrio aqui en Provo. El es estudiante de technologia y yo sigo estudiando espanol.
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Grande fue mi sorpresa el ver la foto de nuestra zona.
Sigamos firme en el evangelio chicos.
¡Que grandes recuerdos no? ¡Viste!
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Hey guys, I'm engaged to Mardi Smith. She's from Mud Lake Idaho, I met her at BYUI. We'll be getting married in the Idaho Falls Temple on December 2nd. I'm way excited and in love. She's the best!!
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que tal a todos los que sirvieron en esta mision... la mejor de todas!!! ya ha pasado mucho tiempo desde que volvi a casa...(just 7 months) hahaha... anyway... im pretty happy to hear about companions that are getting married... crazy ah?? ... and one more thing... president Villarreal and his wife they just finished their mission like a week ago... thanks President and Sister Villarreal for everything!!!!
chaucito!!! un besito_!!!!
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Does anyone know the whereabouts of Seth Bagley? He finished in BAW mission, started in the North or South mission, I can't remember. He's from Idaho.
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Does anyone know how to contact Elder Ben Hanks?
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I recently received an email from a member and a former companion in Liniers who told me that they realigned the Mission boundries so that the Liniers Stake is now part of the Buenos Aires North Mission and that all the missionaries also that were serving there were put into the North Mission. They didnt indicate the reason for doing it, but it does give more congruity to the Capital now, that all of it is part of the same mission. Liniers was the only stake in the Bs As West mission that was in Capital.
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there are a couple places in salt lake that also sell argentine goods as well as other things from south america on state street. if interested, send me a mail or just ask.
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