year-and-a-half
to mark a year and a half since we arrived in Buenos Aires, we present a selection of items from our archive.
The idea originally, when we arrived in Buenos Aires in October 2002, was to keep a log, a record. To make us think about and document what happened, what we thought was interesting, how we felt.
It was supposed to be mostly for ourselves and our families and friends, but a few months after arriving the weblog showed up in the online version of ClarÃn, the biggest newspaper here. Since then we’ve had more Argentine readers than North Americans, which still is strange to us.
After six months of living here, we began writing bilingual posts, partly as Spanish practice, partly to make the page accessible to our monolingual friends. We hope you will forgive our awkward spanish, especially at the beginning. We would forgive yours.
Since Jeremy has moved away we have written much less, and more often about politics than about bidets and jam, about the little bumps in our lives that occupied the first nine months of unglued. guess we got busy doing other things.
here’s the year-and-a-half highlights. we’ll see what the next year and a half brings.
[April 2004]