Qué tal, todos?
It is very interesting what I am going through right now. Half of me is falling in love with everything and the other half of me is hating those very same things that I supposedly love.
For instance, I kind of complained about this before, but the language differences are a very sweet and sour type of a thing. I love how they speak, but I am not looking to pick up their accent...yet, I find myself kind of picking it up every now and then. It's fine, but not at the same time. haha
Secondly, the food. I love their food, but dear god, they are kind of inept to cooking flavorful foods. They have great pizzas and various other dishes, but many of them are rather bland. I mean, what happened to the spice!? or exploring the entire spectrum of flavors?! haha Their desserts are bomb, though, no denying that.
and lastly, the people, themselves.
they get their own list:
1. They are beautiful. As terrible as it is, you, for some reason, naturally want to like beautiful people, whether they deserve it or not.
2. They know they are beautiful and they know people want their attention. (foreigners or locals)
3. They think they are God's gift to man-kind. (men and women)
3a. They either don't give you the time of day
3b. or they are persistent as hell
3c. either way, they expect you to fawn over them.
4. For the most part, the women suck here...no, the "chicas," or the younger girls. Anyone who already has a husband (boyfriend is not good enough, they need to be married) rule. Las chicas solteras (the single girls) Suck.
4a. They are beautiful and know it.
4b. They dislike anyone stealing their "deserved" attention.
4c. Particularly americans who do not have the best reputation on the international front...
4d. They refuse to be friends with you because they have had the same best friends since they were 2 (I think this may be unhealthy) and refuse to let people in...particularly american girls.
4e. they will superficially help you, though, making them seem nice. but False, they are not.
4f. They all think they are too cool for school. I dont know why. Actually, that is a lie, I do know why. Look at number ___
4g. they are all skinny. bitches.
4h. they were not blessed with nice "rear-ends" (the non-edited version: they have no ass. ha-ha...)
4i. they freak out over everything. but they constantly contridict themselves. I don't get it.
5. THEY ARE NOT EUROPEANS. They are just Argentine. Someone needs to set them straight.
5a. Seriously, when updating the cities architeqture, they RE-DID one of the jesuit missions completely so it would be an austrian baroque style church because it was one of the only european styles they did not have represented in Buenos Aires. The only thing setting this church apart from any of the other baroque style churches it has a bulb at the top of the towers that have the shape of an onion. Obviously that onion bulb was worth tearing down a historical church. Duh.
5b. They do not want to be part of Latin America. They want to be European. but they are not. That would be like saying the US is still European. No. We are not. We have ancestral European blood, but we make very little effort to keep such a strong European claim alive. They should stop trying to be copy-cats and embrace their own culture.
5c. Tango, their "claim to fame," wasn't even accepted here until a show went to FRANCE and the FRENCH approved it. Before then, it was a dance of prostitutes. literally.
5d. They speak spanish as if they italians trying to speak spanish. I guess that makes sense because 85% of the original immigrants were italian, but dear god, that was like, 2 centuries ago. Move On.
5e. YOU ARE NOT EUROPEAN. You have no right to think you are better because you speak with a silly italian accent and have european heritage. this was "the new world," remember? at this point, most of the WORLD has some form of european heritage. You. Are. Not. That. Cool. get your head out of you ass.
5f. They think they are gods gift to man kind because they have some european heritage. As my mom would say, give me a break.
6. If argentina was to accept themselves for who they are, I would love it all. but they have this identity crisis going on that really needs to stop. It is just unfortunate that they (for the most part) are that good looking.
7. Do not get me wrong. I have been bitching a lot, but it's been a long day and I'm cranky. There are a lot of argentines who do not fall under these generalizations and who I love.
8. I want to date an argentine, but they really are tiresome. I wish they could just relax.
9. Family. I can assure you, the chances of me finding an argentine that I would want to seriously involve myself with is slim. (Seriously = continue seeing after I leave/marry/move back here for him---ha, no way).
In other news, I started my internship at What's Up Buenos Aires. The work itself is tedious and dull, but the benefits outweigh the monotony because I am the first to learn about everything that is going on in the city. I work on updating the agenda. I believe that job fell on me because it has to be done in English and Spanish. Doesn't make any difference to me, the job is chalk-full of benefits. Last night (sunday night) we had a welcome asado between the new interns (there are 4 of us) and the two people we work with, allie and kevin. Both are superrrrr cool and awesome. It is going to be so much fun to work for them. I was thinking about this earlier, I am never the one to get the awesome, fun, music-oriented internships. It is always my friends-who are music geniuses-who get these types of jobs. Don't get me wrong, I have been exposed to a lot of awesome music, giving me a decent background, but I am still not normally the one in this position. I am stoked, though, because for one, i realized I know a lot more than I gave myself credit for. Secondly, the things I didn't know (i.e. the background of all the individual musicians who make up the bands that I love or how to distinguish between good/mediocre/bad electronic music, etc.), I will be taught in this internship. It is going to be awesome. I also have all of the freedom in the world to go off and do some investigations into things I am interested in. For instance, I can check out the sustainability revolution that is going on in Arg right now, I can check out all of these organic farms, I can check out the yoga scene, I can check out organic restaurants, I can check out new artists, anything, I can do and I can find and create my own mini-project with it that will somehow be incorporated into What's Up Buenos Aires.
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That was yesterday's post that I forgot to finish/was too lazy to finish.
love,
annette
p.s. that was a serious bitch fest, haha it is all partially true, but keep in mind i was cranky and it may have been slightlyyyy exaggerated. mahB! <3
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