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New semester (SS 2010)

March 22, 2010

Now, being back in good (c)old Germany, I’m trying to fall back into the old everyday life. But it is definitely not as easy as you always imagine. Culture shock does not happen when you go TO a “foreign” country but when you come back FROM it, into your home country believed to be familiar!

 

The time flying back seemed to me like passing in a flash. I usually traveled twenty hours in bus the last three months. Therefore the thirteen hours by plane were like peanuts.
Of course Tina and I had problems with baggage over weight.  We had the chance to weight our baggage in front of the airport and could rearrange all stuff. I had about ten kilos too much. At the end I had two cases, my backpack, my laptop bag, and a huge plastic bag with my carnival mask and other stuff I needed on the air plane. But I didn’t have to pay any fee.

 

Leaving Buenos Aires we had 36°C. Arriving in Hanover I was freezing at 0°C - a shock! The first week at home I had to experience snow after all. I froze my balls off! At least I could enjoy a last Feuerzangenbowle (”Flaming Fire Tongs Bowl“, a hot red wine punch with a sugar cone soaked in rum lit above it) for this winter! :)

 

The abrupt change from the Argentinian everyday life to the German way is more difficult as I thought:
First of all, the Argentinian day has 25 hours and you can definitely feel it. There you go out for dinner at 10pm at the earliest, and here in Germany your day “ends” already at 8pm when you have to meet your friends or family yet. In my town there are no buses bringing you home after 11.30pm while in Buenos Aires they circulate all day and night through. And although Argentina is a threshold country you can use WiFi in every café for free - and there are cafés every 50m. In Germany I still have to pull myself together when it comes to traffic. I hate wasting my precious time of life waiting for green - even though there is not a living soul as far as the eye can see! I guess I have to be patient?!

 

I stayed at my parent’s house for one month till I found a new place to live in my university city. I now got my own nice floor with living, kitchen, bath, sleeping, office, and corridor. :)

Semester is quite stressful cause I can work twice as much in my old job. I started with the course Portuguese 2 (Portuguese 1 was only offered last semester) but I don’t have any difficulties to keep up in this course.

 

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Update (middle of May):

I’m still fighting against some of the culture shock - especially the weather! :( I fear, this is the punishment for trying to “skip” German winter… I want to go back to South America!!! :)

 

 

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Hello Ingo,

My name is Anne Vliebergh, I am a 42 years old woman of Belgium and I have a request for you.

I’m reading with great pleasure your blog because I’m a big big big fan of Argentina. I had the luck
to spend 2 weeks in Buenos Aires in July, together with my friend, a lady of about my age too.

We had the time of our live over there as we have a lots of friends over there and now we were able to meet
them in person. We have received so many enthousiastic reactions when we came home so that I decided to write
down a report of our trip. Afterwards I added some photos to my report…but the problem is that we don’t have
so many photos and we didn’t have such a great camera…so can I use some of the photos on your blog
in my report. Of course I’l mention your name and if you like I’l enumerate the pictures that are yours.

For the moment, the report only exist in Dutch (I’m Flemish). I’m looking at a translater to put it in Spanish
because I have to spread it in Argentina also. I do speak a bit Spanish, but not enough to translate the whole
report. So, if I have the Spanish version, and if you like, I can give you a copy of my report in Spanish later on.

I hope on a positive reaction !

Enjoy the coming New Year !!!

Anne, Belgium.

ingo:

Pics are coming later ‘cos I need to find/buy some new webspace :-/ I’m now (29.01.-18.02.2010) at the waterfalls of Iguazú and Brazil. Therefore the next reports on Uruguay and Brazil are hopefully coming when I’m back again. Sorry!

ingo:

Weather here in Bs.As. is just too hot! It’s 2am and we still have 28°C. There will be 36°C tomorrow. Good that I’ll go to the Jungle where it’ll be 3°C less - but 90% of humidity :-S

ingo:

20.01.2010 concert of Joaquin Sabina in Estadio Boca Juniors, Buenos Aires :)

ingo:

next small trip to Uruguay (Montevideo & Punta del Este) probably this week (8th, 2010) :)

ingo:

report & pics of my last trip to Mendoza, Santiago de Chile & Valparaiso (New Year’s Eve), Córdoba are coming soon

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Due to full webspace on my blog, photos & videos will be on Flickr from now on :-|
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ingo:

I’m on my way to Puerto Madryn (whale watching). I’ll be back probably at Wednesday 9th of Dec. Then there will be a lot of pics & vidz :)

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Dakar Rally Argentina-Chile 2010:
Jan. 1.-17., Start and Finish in Buenos Aires (Av. 9 de Julio, of course!) :) Who’s coming?

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