Ok this blog has been a long time coming and it may not follow quite so chronologically as the previous ones so bare with me! The last thing I wrote on the blog was about us finding out about a Spanish course at the University so I'll start with that. Ultimately I have decided that although the course would be useful I'd rather invest my funds in seeing more of the country so I'm going to study at home whilst Ben takes the course. However, through him meeting n...

We started work!!! It's a miracle. Friday was our first day and a bit of an eye opener in terms of wealth disparity in this country. Up to this point we've spent the majority of the time either in the city, which is commercial, busy and fairly wealthy, or at the rugby club where all the players seem well off. The institute is about a 40 minute bus journey away in an area that I really wouldn't want to be in on my own. They have an armed guard letting people in an...

It's been forever since my last post so I'll try and make this worth the read, though I've probably forgotten some of the stuff that's happened in the last 11 days! Work wise we now know what we're doing and we've decided to work with a charity foundation called CONIN, and also prepare lessons and teach English in a private institution. CONIN is a childrens charity that provides medical help and rehabilitation classes/workshops to malnourished kids and their pare...

Been a while since the last blog and this is mostly due to life starting to settle down into a routine. We discovered that the entire population of Mendoza does it's banking on a Thursday morning, precisely when we were trying to get some of ours done, massive ques stretching outside the banks and down the street. It wasn't too bad though because we got to fully explore the centre while it was busy and it was good to be part of a busy Mendozian morning. I've deci...

Thursday started with great intentions of doing some city exploring and going to see some of the tourist attractions in the city. We wanted to go and visit the snake house but for some reason it never quite happened and before you knew it it was siesta and we'd lounged around all day. We decided to make up for our morning laziness by going out in the evening and, after teaching Julio a few card drinking games, we headed out. We keep being drawn towards the same...