This week I receive my certification to Teach English as a Foreign Language. I can't believe it's already been a month! Some of me feels like it's been six months since I've been here and another part feels like I've been here since last week. I'm going to miss all of the students that I have. My classes have students with people that are 14 to 65 years old! I love them all and they think I'm crazy. I throw things at them and yell in German...nah, just kidding. But with the absolute beginners I was trying to teach them this/that/these/those with vocabulary. They don't know any English mind you, so I hold a pen and say, this pen...they always repeat everything I say and write everything I say down profusely. They are such good students. So I throw the pen across the room and they are totally bewildered...they all turn from the pen on the floor and look at me. I then say, that pen. Then they all repeat, that pen...I was dying laughing inside!

This week my goal is to narrow down an apartment. I haven't had time to look with teaching and preparing lessons throughout the weeks. I may have a roommate who teaches with me this month, but we're not sure yet because this month is been so hectic. She wants to live in Palermo because it's safer...Palermo is alright, but it's pretty pretentious and boochy if you ask me. Palermo is also more expensive and I feel like it would be too hard to get a two bedroom for the price I want to pay. We're going to talk tomorrow some more and I may go on my own to live in San Telmo. San Telmo would be like Capitol Hill in Denver or Ghent in Norfolk or Brooklyn in New York; just better.

I'm getting pretty accustomed to the city after a month and I'm starting to make some friends that I see regularly. Last week, my friend, Alejandro, invited me to see this band that plays chamas music. It's music from northeast Argentina and is lead with an accordion. People were dancing with this certain style I've never seen before. People are poised in this position that leaves their upper bodies really stiff while their legs are moving all over the place. It was really cool to watch and hear. The accordion (I know it's called something else that I can't remember) doesn't have any keys but a ton of buttons on both sides; how do you begin to figure that out!

I got to play keyboard with this reggae band the other night. I was a having a beer with two friends and the band took a break. I started talking to some of them and then they called me up for the next set and told me to play the keyboard. I obeyed:)

I'm going to try to get a job at a high school for March when the school year begins. I heard that I may have a good chance with the experience and background that I have. If not, there's plenty of work to be had teaching English at businesses and language schools. I also figured out that I don't need a work visa here. There's a way around the system which I'm finding is pretty regular here in Buenos Aires. As long as you pay the government 30 dollars a month, you can stay as long as you'd like.

I going to try to post some pictures tomorrow.

Ciao ciao!