Team Tierney on Tour, Part 2:Buenos Aires

It seems hard to believe that on Saturday we were shinning down vertical rock faces in the Atacama desert (did I really do that?) and today we are in Buenos Aires, wondering which of the many cinemas, bars, restuarants etc to choose tonight. What a fantastic city-it reminds us of Manhattan although we have seen very little yet since school started yesterday and took up most of the day. Today, however, is a national holiday in Argentina, commemorating the dead soldiers of the military dictatorships in the late 70s and 80s (very interesting how the whole Malvinas or Falklands is seen here now as being a political move by the dictators to hold on to power, pretty much as Thatcher used it to shore up her premiership) so we took the opportunity to go on an organised city tour in order to get our bearings. We have also booked to go to watch a tango group which has been recommended to us as being not a tourist spectacular-it´s in the Centro Cultural Borges, after all-and have started to make inquiries about a boat trip to Uruguay. Evidently we are finding it hard to stay in one place for very long. Tomorrow we have to present a summary of a newspaper article in class and give our thoughts on it. Apparently Spain has decided to withdraw troops from Kosovo, upsetting everyone in sight, so I may tackle that. So must go and do my homework. More to follow!