Hello!  I am newly back from my weekend trip to Montevideo, Uruguay.  I was staying with my cousins, and we had a really wonderful time.  To be honest, I didn't think much of the city.  It was sort of like a smaller, dirtier, poorer version of Buenos Aires, with far fewer interesting cultural landmarks-- but the trip was still worthwhile, because I ( Read more... )

To finish the chronicling of my family's 10-day visit here:

( Day Six )

Once upon a time, there was a young couple who moved to New York from Argentina in search of work, leaving behind huge families-- she had five siblings, and he had two.  Later on they had kids, one of whom had her own kids, and one of those kids decided to study abroad to get to know the CRAP TON OF FAMILY still living in Buenos Aires, Montevideo, ( Read more... )

Several days later, I have yet to post in any detail about my trip to Uruguay.  Here I go, fixing it!

We went to Colonia, the whole program; it's a UNESCO World Heritage site and the program director has a country estate there.  So we all got on the ferry and went there for three days.  The minute we got off the ferry, we went onto a bus that took ( Read more... )