hasta tunuyan

So Saturday night, Patrick and Filip and I went to palermo to eat. palermo reminds me a lot of the nice parts of Polanco (in mexico city). we walked about an hour and finally sat down to eat at 11, and it was my first chance to have bife de chorizo here. wow. it was...amazing. That night Patrick and I joined a big group from the hostel and went out to a club called pacha, and got in for free by turning our wristbands inside out so they looked like the white ones of people who had already paid. between that and finding 50 pesos on the ground, made for a pretty cheap night!

sunday i watched some soccer, walked with henrique to manzana de las luces, the oldest church in buenos aires, and he helped me fight the pigeons off my breakfast at an ouside cafe. then i tried to go to recoleta cemetery but i missed the stop on the bus and ended up back in palermo, so instead i went to the museo evita peron, before heading off on the bus to tunuyan.

the buses here are amazing. i got semi'cama, so top floor of a double decker bus, where the seats lean pretty far back. and when you get on the bus, they play bingo. on my bus they were giving away a kids toy but according to vida they also give away a bottle of wine sometimes. mmmm. So I got to tunuyan monday morning and eventually found a taxiflet (pickup truck as a cab), who had NO IDEA where the street was. so after a couple calls to vida and the driver saying he couldnt make it further down the dirt road, i convinced him that for the sum of 10 pesos, about $3.50, he would keep going.

vida´s farm is looking good! she has a couple volunteers and a couple employees helping to build the foundation of the house. last night, I worked with Katie, from california, and peter, from belgium, to make pear chutney, canned pears with ciruelas (plums), and melon chutney. it´s a little different canning here where you cut everything outside and cook it over a fire with the pot propped up on a cut=off oil drum. but we´ve been eating well. we worked on the foundation of the house this morning, and then make lunch around noon, have some mate, then siesta time until 430 (hence i´m in town at the internet cafe), and then we´ll work again until about 9.

highlight = seeing the pleiades with the naked eye over the andes last night!