What the hell is linguistics?

We had our first class today: Spanish Linguistics. There's really nothing special to say about it. We started the class by listing in groups of three Spanish words commonly associated with a university setting. Examples include: desk, pen, computer, etc. Yeah, it was fun.

After that we went to eat in Palermo Viejo (that might be wrong) which was even cooler than my neighborhood, Recoleta. It had a bunch of really cool houses and restaurants. And when I say cool, I don't mean as far as South America goes. I mean they would stick out as nice in Georgetown. It only took us a couple of seconds to describe mimosas to the waiter and then only a couple more moments to convince him we actually wanted to drink champagne at that hour. They were strong.

We wandered around that area for a while, finding a little art gallery to explore and a leather shoe store... for women (awesome!). Someone spotted a winery- or whatever a store with a lot of wine is- and we talked to the owner who invited us back whenever we wanted to do wine tastings for a pretty good price. He didn't say whether or not he'd provide cigars also, but I'll keep you posted.

A sports store displayed way too few basketball shoes.

"Blogger" must rake it in.

I read the sports page from La Nacion, which I understood surprisingly well. So what's happening in Argentine sports?

-Maradona is really short.

-They spent $500,000 pesos modernizing the stadium in Rosario where Brazil will come to play Argentina on September 5 in World Cup Qualifying. The coolest addition? HOT TUBS IN THE CLUBHOUSE!

-Argentina soccer is to Brazilian soccer as Wizards basketball is to Cavaliers basketball.

-My host brother disagrees that an NFL team should sign the World's fastest man, Usain Bolt, to play wide receiver. He told me that I don't understand, because once you train for a sport, that's the sport you know and you just don't change. I don't know how to explain, in Spanish, what goes down in college football recruiting, especially in the Southeast. Basically, though, there are plenty of runners that can be taught to catch the ball. I probably lost the argument when I said, "Well, if I owned an NFL team..."

OK, that's all. I'm going to try and go out tonight because I don't have class until 11:30 in the morning.

Peace and love.