Be sure you watch these photos just one after another to catch the action at this fantabulous Tango show. We met friends from school at El Milongen, this bar in a suspect barrio, for the most professional Tango show in town. Andrea told us it was the best and it truly was superb.You'll notice as you go through the pictures that you’re seeing different types of dances. The show took us through 200 years of dance in Uruguay so there’s folklore, Afri...

For anyone thinking of a language immersion class, I have a few words. Yes and no.No if you're married to your TV and your automatic coffee maker. No if you have to drive everywhere you go. Definitely no if you’re uncomfortable with never knowing what will happen next.Yes if you have to do more than just read about how other people live. Yes if you’re ok with freeze dried coffee and a bottle of warm water. Yes if learning new things is what keeps ...

They tell us this is a sad country and maybe that's why nobody seems to care enough to keep up these beautiful old homes or clean the dog crap off the sidewalks. Of course you can find places that are well kept, but you have to go to the very rich areas for them. The middle and lower class barrios are pretty sad.It’s a very literate country with 60% of adults going to college, most wanting to be doctors or lawyers and most leaving the country to find wo...

The passion for soccer knows no limits in Latin America. And the supporters are always boisterous in support of their team and sometimes even violent. The very first World Cup soccer match was played in Montevideo, Uruguay, and with great pride the Uruguayans will always let you know that they won the first World Cup.Although we didn't attend the futbol game Friday night between the Nacionol and Penarol teams, we got a report from Ryan, one of our classmates...

We've learned a little of the country's history in the short time we've been here--history you won't read in schoolbooks. In 1858 the remaining indigenous people were rounded up into a valley and slaughtered by the Uruguayans, consequently there is no indigenous population in Uruguay--a dark piece of the country's conscience. In 1973 Uruguay was taken over by a military dictatorship and much like today’s Taliban the people were under str...