My New Apartment with Miss Stefanie

In the neighborhood of lower Recoleta, on Austria, in between French and Peña, there is a lovely apartment building where two girls are living blistfully in a 2 bedroom, 1 1/2 baths, kitchen, living room dining area, fully furnished Buenos Aires apartment.  Good riddance of the university residence hall Alfa Proyecto 2000, my forced tripple (although I liked my roommates!), and all those rules.  I will miss the daily maid service who came in to make my bed and clean the room Monday-Friday but it is so nice to have an apartment in the city with a balcony overlooking the chaos of the street below.  The student residence was in Barrio Norte, I will not miss...

1. Living in a very Jewish orthodox neighborhood where I get looks walking down the street for exposing my shoulders, arms and calves.  Its not my fault that all the women where ankle length skirts and at least 3/4 length blouses or that the men where full suits with wide brim hats every day!  Everything closes down Friday-Sunday for the sabbath, it became a real pain when I wanted a bottle of soda or a bag of twistos (Argentine cheeze-its) at 10pm on a Saturday and had to walk 10-15 blocks to find an open store.

2. The truck that woke me up every single morning.  You know how large trucks make a loud beeping sound when they back up (beep...beeep...beeep)?  This truck made a beeping sound that played Beethoven's Fur Elise.  Aside from the fact that Fur Elise is an extremely overplayed piano piece the rendition produced by the truck was even more terrible than usual.  I heard the "music" every day when the truck driver left for work in the morning and returned at night. It was dreadful.

3. The fluffy white yappy foo-foo dog who ran up and down Viamonte jumping up and down barking at all the big dogs in the balconies above.  Crazy dog.

Stefanie and I are enjoying our new apartment immensely.  Mom took us grocery shopping yesterday, what an experience!  The tea pot is boiling, time for breakfast.

I hope everyone is doing splendidly.

Love,

Rocky