Buenos Aires 2.0

Quite a few of my blog entries tend to be general observations about living in Buenos Aires followed by a personal take on the issue, but this message is purely personal.

Relax, it's not that exciting.

I just went through a period where I had a lot of things change all at once and it's been a little more significant than I thought it would be. For the last two months I've lived in the same apartment, I walked the same street everyday on my way to Johanna's place who I had been with for almost the whole two months I've been here. I haven't been working either so I had this situation that was incredibly constant. Now over the course of just a few days it feels like pretty much everything has changed:

1. I moved to a new apartment in the Las Cañitas area of Palermo.
   
2. Johanna went back to Ecuador or her summer break and since I'm not sure if I'm even going to be here when she comes back we decided it would be best to go our separate ways.
3. I'm actively looking for a job down here.

I am getting into the groove with what feels like Part II of my adventure down here though. Today I went for a walk around the hood to see the sights and find the essentials (closest grocery store, ATM, kiosko, empenada place, and cafe that has wifi). Just walking around made me fall in love with the area. I think it was a combination of it being a late Sunday afternoon (so there weren't that many people out), it having just rained last night (so the air was fairly clear) and it being a reasonable temperature out (as opposed to that last two 95 degree days) but I think that was the calmest I had felt just walking down the street here. It was just so peaceful. Las Cañitas feels like a small town set away from the rest of the craziness of the city and that's a really nice change. I mean, at no point did I have to break into a jog to keep from being hit by a taxi (chill Mom).

I think I'm going to like it up here and I hope Part II is even better than the first.















Photo by babalucci (via flickr).