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Falta poco

Dec 3rd, 2007, 06:35 pm

Countdown: three weeks. I can’t believe my time en mi querida Argentina is almost over. I’m gonna miss the delicious bland food, the mullets, the Italian-inflected Spanish, the numerous tiny shops, and the beautiful women (in case you didn’t know, Buenos Aires has a significantly higher percentage of attractive people than any city I’ve been to in the US–this is a topic for another post).

Once Friday hits, Insha’Allah, I’ll be totally done with my exams and papers for the semester. And after that? Grad school applications and hopefully a trip down to the Dirty South, which in this case means southern Argentina.

How weird is it to run into a pair of Pakistani Americans from California when waiting in line at an ice cream shop in Buenos Aires with another desi from the US? It’s so odd to run into your “own kind” in such a random place. I mean, I see plenty of white Americans around here, but I’m totally not used to meeting other brown people with American accents in Argentina. Ah, the joys of living in the South Asian diaspora.

I can’t get the following songs out of my head:

“Obsesión” by Aventura

And one of the thousand Spanglish covers spawned by the original:

“Obsession” by Baby Bash featuring 3rd Wish

Okay, back to studying.

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Comments

2007-12-03 18:50:06
amber

Its amazing where one will run into a desi, quite exciting :)
-amber

2007-12-04 15:13:33
Dave

Oh man, Argentine women….Years ago I used to dance Tango and Flamenco, my partner (also a co-worker) was from Buenos Aires, absolutely gorgeous even in her 40s, and all her friends looked like a mix between a young Sophia Loren and Selma Hayek. I don’t want to sound like a pig, but….I mean, DAMN.

2007-12-04 17:05:08
pharaaz

haha nice where have u been lately

2007-12-05 00:42:01
Hasan

Studying and hanging out con mis amigos. I figured I should stay away from the computer when I can to really enjoy my last few weeks here.

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