Calm before the storm

So, I just got back from a particularly brutal UBA class. Three straight hours of difficult Spanish in a really distracting classroom is so taxing. Today was especially bad, since I thought it would be a good idea to make a comment but ended up really acting the fool and being totally embarrassed about what I said (or more accurately, how I said it. )

Anyway, yesterday I returned from a weekend spent with the Witkinds back in Montevideo. I had a lovely/relaxing time. (Didn't bring any schoolwork with me.) Since I began my new temporary life on this continent in Uruguay, I kind of felt like I was going 'home,' which was nice. Also nice was the endless food cooked by the maids and the turn-down service (haha, no joke.) The Passover seder was nice, if small (and quiet - no mom's solo singing layered with cousin Eric's inappropriate jokes and everyone else's desire to EAT.) I also made some pistachio-coated, toffee-chocolate covered matzah. Overall, a successful weekend.
[me and the kids at the seder: Roni, Jacqui, me, Jani, and Martin]

These upcoming three weeks are going to be filled with adventures, I'm going to be traveling all over (Mendoza, Bariloche, Jujuy, 3 consecutive weekends) so I'll take pictures and let you know how things went, as usual.

Also, my next blurb about what I'm reading probably won't come for another thirty years, since I just started Michener's The Source, a definite tome that right now takes place in ancient history. Good so far, but not exactly the fastest read. It's coinciding nicely with the audiobook I'm listening to on my ipod right now, Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. Pretty drastic change from all of the light comforting fiction I was reading at the beginning of my time here. But good reads nonetheless.

Until the next!