Start of Language School 7/30/07

Today was our first experience with the language school. Our teacher is a college literature professor named Diego and is a good teacher and very patient. We started from essentially no knowledge and progressed rapidly to essentially no knowledge plus a little. :)

School ends at the rush hour commute and we tried to get on the subway but this prooved to be impossible. The cars were totally full and when the doors open, more people try to get in. There were people partially hanging out when the train (el tren) started to roll. Dave and I just turned around and left to walk ( al piedra) towards the monument at Av. 9 de Julio and Av. Corrientes.

It was pretty early to eat and the major restaurants were closed still. We wallked up Corrientes towards Montevideo where Earline and I stayed last year and found a restaurant in a small court where I had spinache ravioli and Dave tried a club sandwich. Washed down with a very expensive Modelo Negro imported beer that cost 10 pesos each. You can buy a whole liter of Quillmes beer in the supermarket for about 3.5 pesos.

We walked over to the D subway line, encountered a street demonstration concerning children and came back to the apartment. On the way, we tried to buy a take out pizza with tomato sauce and cheese. We ordered Pizza Napolitano thinking this was the one but it came with garlic, olive oil, tomato slices and cheese. It is tough to figure the correct pizza here.