Buenos Aires, 2nd trip

This trip definately beat out the 1st one. I got back in town Thursday, and was in B.A. for about 22 days. It's pretty rare that I dream in Spanish, but it happened last weekend, which might be an indicator that I either miss it a ton, or spent a ton of time there. Here are the highlights:

I was living in Almagro, spending 14 bucks a day to stay at a friend's apartment, and loving it. Being a block and a half away from the Corrientes subway is amazing.

My first act was to get a cell phone, and print out cards. Wow, did that ever help.

I went to milongas nearly every evening. I went to bed around 6 AM on average.

I was in full carpetbagger mode, considering that the exchange rate was 3:1 in favor of the dollar. I bought clothing galore, custom magen davidim, and a lot of tango shoes.

I was living half a block from Eugenia Parilla.

I took about 4 private lessons a week, and taped 10 minutes at the end to review. I also took a voice lesson on latin vocalization.

I found the ideal girl, tall great dancer, Jewish, and cute. I may have to import her...

I saw 5 people at Ezeiza airport on my way out. 2 tango teachers / performers from LA (Hugo y Miriam), a couple of people that I saw a lot at milongas, and a tango flautist that I met during New Years.
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Well, pictures next time, hopefully that won't be in another few months :P

Happy New Year, here's to new posts

Hi everyone, it's been a damn long while hasn't it? I'm going to gloss over quite a bit of the tango goings on and just get to some of the more interesting events. Starting at the St. Louis Tango Festival 2006.

I was able to stay at Lauren Wilmore's place, with a friend of mine from Seattle who now lives in North Carolina. From what Viktoria tells me, it's a bit of a tango wasteland out there. Still, staying with them was great, Lauren's place was beautiful, and she's paying 66% of what I'm paying for a much nicer place. Go figure though, St. Louis vs. Seattle.

The festival was good, with fun dancing, and lots of old faces. It was funny, considering they hadn't seen me in about a year, and my dance has evolved quite a bit since then. That and my look, which had people comparing me to John Lennon. This comparison happened about 5 times in Buenos Aires on my 2nd trip, but that's a story for later.

The festival was great, and people pulled together. There's a bit of conflict between two camps , but it was put aside for the festival. I think one of the big highlights and coincedences was that an old friend since grade school, who I also saw at Wash U, showed up randomly at the venue, and was checking out tango. Considering the fact that he's moving to Ann Arbor, he might get into the scene.