Universidad del Salvador (USAL)

My favorite place to go at night was a coffe shop around the corner from our apartment called La Farola. It was on the calle Santa Fe, which is a very busy street, and we would go in and get cafe con leche y dos media lunas and sit and look out on the street for hours. For actual nightlife stuff, surprisingly we mostly ende up going to other exchange peoples apartments and listening to music and drinking cheap wine and beer. None of had much money and B.A. is a pretty expensive dance club kind of town. We did often go to the Rincon Dominicana to dance salsa. Unfortunately, they closed down at the end of our stay, due to the economic instability that was just beginning to crash down.

Although this was a wonderful arrangement, due to the wonderful natures of both of my roommates, I still did not retain as much language and culture as I would have liked to because we were all from the states, all english speakers.

I think the way to do it was do as the locals do. They eat very cheaply all week. All meals are eaten at home. Then on the weekend, why that's the time to appreciate what you've saved up all week for.

Hmmm,I think you could go just about anywhere and if you spend enough time, you grow to love it, in whatever way you can. I love the city of Buenos Aires, it is alive and vibrant and crumbling and decadent and brilliantly haughty yet inviting. Man, its a strange place and it makes you ache with weird loving for it. I just say go there, and spend as much time as you can digging right down into it.

I went to Argentina straight from Venezuela, where my father's family lives. I feel that this allowed for me to really become acquainted with Spanish and its everyday usage. I was definitely a good communicator when I got there. And after spending time there and coming to understand the very distinctive slang of B.A., I feel that I was definitely fluent.