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+Spanish Conversation Class
+Artesanal Beer Tasting
+ADVANCED WARNINGS!
+Storing Luggage
+Jessica Dufresne
+Going to Brazil
+Poke us, Befriend us!
+International Human Rights Film Festival
+La Boca Football Stadium
+Soul Cafe's live music events
+Sattva Vegetarian
+China Town
+What is a cortado and a lagrima?
+Where can I change all manner of currencies?
+Graham Newell and Recoleta Cemetery - HE WINS THREE WEEKS IN A ROW!!!
+Learn Spanish with Amauta Spanish School
+Enviornmental Boat Project
+Books for Sale
+Online Expat Publication
+Language Classes
+Outdoor Equipment Store
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Buenos dias,
WE HAVE TELEPHONE CONNECTION!
Finally, the powers that be here in BA have managed to get around to connecting our telephone line and so you can now call us from anywhere the city on 5275 0137 (+54 11 and then the number if you're calling from outside Argentina or if you're using skype to call us). Also, if you need to make a local call to any landline here in the city you can do so from our office for FREE.
BA Clubhouse San Telmo Gallery Hop
Friday 29th May 2009
 We want to thank all those members and invited guests who attended the gallery hop we organised in San Telmo on the 29th May. We had a fantastic time and we know that you did too. If you didn't come to the event, you really missed out. Not only was there introductions to new places, a broad variety of art and some member mingling going on, but we also managed to get free wine, a free gin and tonic and free pizza thrown in to the bargain as well! SAE Buenos Aires certainly knows how to look after its members.
If you visit our events page at www.saexplorers.org/clubhouses/buenosaires/events those who came can reminisce by browsing through some photographs I took during the evening. For those of you who didn't come, take at look at what you missed and aim to be around for the next one.
AND...if you click on the link above that says Buenos Aires Previous Newsletters, you'll be able to see the newsletter from last week. Please use it. I spent my entire Sunday trying to figure out the code on the intranet site! I know...what a loser!
Keep on trucking! and email me if you need anything... buenosairesclubhouse@gmail.com
Tracey
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SPANISH CONVERSATION CLASS* (EVERY) Wednesday.
Next lesson: Wednesday 3rd June at 3:30pm @ the clubhouse.
Learn how to string your words together! Join us every Wednesday for an informal conversation class with a teacher from ELE BAIRES. RSVP encouraged.
FREE for members and $8 pesos for non-members.
Email us at BAevents@saexplorers.org
to reserve yourself a place.
ARTESANAL BEER TASTING SESSION
 On Saturday 6th June from 12pm -1pm @ The Clubhouse we are hosting an Artesanal Beer Tasting Event. A local Argentine, Hernan Francisco Natalichio, will be giving a talk on how his beer is made, where's it's sold and you'll then be able to sample the three different varieties. He is also going to be offering some cheaper deals on the beer at the end of the session too, so if you develop a taste for it throughout the hour, you can walk away with your own stash of the stuff at a good price.
I'm not a beer lover at all - much more of a cocktail girl - but I really liked the black beer variety. It's a little like Guinness, but less heavy and less bitter. It had a very smooth quality to it and didn't leave me with the horrible after-taste that I get from most of other beers (one of the reasons I don't really like the stuff). So, in short, I'm a bit of a fan and suggest that you join us here in the Clubhouse for an hour of good old-fashioned fun. Beer in the afternoon has got to appeal to a fair few of you, for sure?!
AR$ 5 (members)
AR$10 (non-members)
The above price includes the free beer tasting and all the info provided in the talk. Please RSVP by sending an email to BAevents@saexplorers.organd reserve yourself a place.
ADVANCED WARNINGS!
Mate: Learn about it, how to make it and then....DRINK SOME!!!
On Saturday 13th June @ 12pm in the Clubhouse, two young Argentine sisters, Natalia and Cecilia Fernandez, will be giving a talk on the famous Argentine drink, Mate. They will be demonstrating how to prepare the drink (there are a few variations that have developed and every Argentine takes their mate in a different way) and will be available to answer any questions you may have. For example, you must not confuse the mate (the vessel the drink is taken from) and the yerba (the actual plant ingredient for the drink). The talk will be in Spanish, but both girls can speak English very well (they're too modest to say so though!) and of course the SAE team will be on-hand to help out with any translations that may be needed. However, it's like an extra Spanish conversation class for you all!
AR$ 5 (members)
AR$10 (non-members)
The talk will last for about an hour, during which time we will be sampling and enjoying some freshly prepared mate. Who knows, you may even like it so much that you go out and buy your own!
Please RSVP by sending an email to BAevents@saexplorers.org
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Storing Luggage at The Clubhouse
Please remember that if you want to store or pick-up luggage you need to make an appointment with us beforehand via email. This is because we store all luggage at a different location and we will need to organise a time to meet. Email all luggage correspondence to baclub@saexplorers.org
Jessica Dufresne - our new marketing intern! - ADVERTISING WITH SAE
We have a new member of our team here in the BA Clubhouse as of this week. Jessica is from Michigan, USA and will be working with us mainly on marketing until August while she takes a break from her studies back home. If you want to talk advertising with us, she's your lady. You can email her at advertiseBA@saexplorers.org
Going to Brazil???
Our top Brazil expert and SAE Volunteer, Caroline Major, spent 6 months volunteering in Brazil within and travelled the country during her stay. Caroline is in Calafate at present, but you can come in to the clubhouse and read THREE indepth articles about her experiences to ensure you make the most out of your all-important trip.
Poke us, befriend us.
Please visit our facebook page because it includes lots of stuff about events, contact details (that are up-to-date!) and more. Find us online at www.myspace.com/saebuenosaires and www.facebook.com (search for Buenos Aires Clubhouse SAE.) |
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International Human Rights Film Festival
The only one of its kind in Latin America, this festival shows short films and documentaries dedicated to raising awareness about the abuse of human rights by local and international film makers. The festival is held at The Cultural Centre in Recoleta between 27th May and 10th June 2009. It's an annual event and the cost of the film tickets, as well as the times, does vary. For this reason, the website address for the festival is given below to help you plan your film experiences with more ease.
www.derhumalc.org.ar
La Boca Stadium
Why not visit BA's football landmark one day this week? Every day, between 10am and 6pm, the stadium is open to visitors and there is a museum, The Museo de la Pasión Boquense (Museum of Boca Passion), that documents everything that the avid football fan could wish for. The stadium itself, nicknamed The Chocolate Box (on account of its shape) is also a must see sight. It is a huge structure that looms over La Boca neighbourhood, oozing an awesome power that cannot be ignored.
Soul Cafe's new music season: 'Electronights'
This little place, located on Baez 246 in Palermo, is hosting local Argentine indie music. Each gig normally starts at about 10pm and admission is usually free too. It’s a perfectly situated spot with great entertainment that's not going to break the bank. At SAE, we find the hidden gems!
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Sattva - Vegetarian Cuisine in the Microcenter
It's been a week of SAE staff outings and on Thursday night, the gang spent a very pleasant evening in Sattva - a tasty vegetarian restaurant on Montevideo (in between Corrientes and Lavalle) - as a formal farewell to our volunteer, Caroline. The restaurant itself is very inviting. The decor is warm and comforting (needed on these now wintry nights) and the choice on the menu was not only extensive but very creative. Much of the time, vegetarian restaurants can be very dull - particularly when eating in a country so famed for its meat - but Sattva was different.
The range of sandwiches and brochettes on offer made us want to try them all. Olives, cheeses, different herbs, humus, a range of vegetables - including caramelised onions, a particular favourite of mine - the list was endless. The desert menu was nothing to be sniffed at either. I enjoyed a very large portion of an apple and muesli based cake to accompany my proverbial cafe con leche and it took me about an hour to finish. Granted, we were chatting like the world was going to end that evening, but it would have been a fifteen minute challenge for me, minus the chat, had I been dining alone with only my thoughts to distract me away from the task at hand.
They also served lots of fresh juices, including a mystery juice of the day (always fun to feel a sense of the unexpected when eating out!) and some meal deals placed on the chalk boards above the counter. The service was a little cold, but maybe he'd had a bad day - let's face it....everybody has them. However, it really didn't make very much of a difference to our evening. Our high spirits were too much for the dampening effects of a tired and bored waiter. Equally, the very subtle Indian influences, dating from the colonial age, were clearly running through the restaurant in the form of interesting teapots, Buddhism relics and dark-wooded furniture. Together, they were enough to warm up the frozen reception given to us by the young waiter without much difficulty. The restaurant is also a great spot for an after work meet due to its central location. However, be aware as in most restaurants in the city that ordering anything other than drinks, the brochettes or a desert is just not possible before 8pm, more or less. The food is just not available and they'll be no exceptions on that score.
So, take a break from the Argentine meat this week and try a little Sattva on for size.
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China Town
O.k. It has to be done, doesn't it? When you're in any city in the world and that city has a China Town, you have to go, don't you? You know what you're going to find before you go (restaurants, supermarkets and little souvenir shops full of useless but pretty trinkets) but that doesn't stop you from going. It's a must. Therefore, last Saturday we had an SAE Buenos Aires Clubhouse outing to BA's very own El Barrio Chino.
It was very easy to get to. We took the number 64 bus from Colonel Diaz and Beruti, just outside of the Alto Palermo shopping mall (nearest subte station being Bulnes) and it took us all the way there in about 10 minutes. It's the final stop on the route too, so it's very difficult to get lost! We passed a very pleasant three hours, wandering around the supermarkets and marveling at all the fantastically tasty things we could buy. We also tried a little of what the local restaurants had to offer and I was mightily impressed with my spring roll starter - my full appreciation clearly notable from the rather ridiculous photograph slotted in below.
Four meat spring rolls, listed as a starter for the bargain price of 6 pesos, actually turned out to be more like a main course meal as opposed to a light entree. Caroline's meal too was far larger than anticipated. She was served a mountain - yes a mountain! - of chicken fried rice, as opposed to a normal-sized portion. Just to prove I'm not exaggerating, you can see Caroline enjoying the beginnings of her feast below. This resulted in the pair of us asking to have half of our meals wrapped up in a little goody-box to take home for another day. Can't be bad when you leave somewhere with a little gift now, can it!
In terms of what the supermarkets have to offer, there was a huge range and rather a mixture of cultures to be found for sure. Not only was there the usual fair of (very reasonably priced!) noodles of every nature, dim sum pre-prepared and ready to be deep fried, spring rolls for the same and a range of sauces and spices to complement your meal. However, it was possible to find little delights from other countries too. For example, not such a huge surprise, I bought some great sushi with salmon, which at only 10.50 pesos a roll, was a bargain! Yes, we were in China Town and sushi is Japenese, but it is possible to see the links here. However, I also found some 'harina de maiz' (corn flour) the kind that you find in countries like Venezuela and the staple food used to make the famous arepa and pastelitos that the people simply cannot live without. Now, what the link is between China and Venezuela, I don't know, but there you have it!   One of my favourite spots was a very large supermarket (wholesale-type place) Inside they have a huge, and I mean HUGE, fish section, which in Buenos Aires is a little bit of a rarity. Below you can see a picture of a guy de-boning a very large and healthy looking salmon and a picture of some kind of mollusk, still living on their icy supermarket bed. You can buy prawns (large ones!) and eels, fresh tuna steak and more. This is definitely one of the best places to visit in the city to buy fish for both cost and variety.
So, head on down to China Town and have a look for yourself.
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Cortado? Lagrima? Café con Leche?.....Just exactly what am I ordering?
When going into a coffee shop or restaurant it is really helpful to know a little about what the things listed on the menu actually refer to. Particularly here in South America, depending on which country you're in, the terminology for the different dishes and the different ways in which they are served differ greatly. For instance, a cafe latte in Sydney, New York and London, all mean the same thing. Here, however, amongst the language of an infinite number of verbs, adjectives and nouns, particular to country and then to regions within countries too, common ground is a little more difficult to find.
Therefore, the following is a breakdown of what I have come to learn over the past five weeks and I hope that you find it useful...
Expresso is a very short, black shot of strong coffee, best taken with a little sugar in my opinion.
Lagrima is my favourite for its translation. The word 'lagrima' literally means 'teardrop' and so this is a coffee served with a lot of milk and a mere ‘drop’ of coffee. How cute!
Cortado is when your coffee is served with just a dash of milk. It’s a good choice to give yourself an energy kick in the mornings.
Café solo is served in a large cup and nothing but pure, honest, black coffee.
Cafe con Leche is exactly half milk, half coffee and is served in a larger cup than the cortado.
Cafe con Crema is the same as a cafe con leche, but obviously with cream instead of milk.
Cafe Doble is when you want to order a double serving of a normal coffee.
Cafe en Jarro (sometimes 'Jarrito')is a reference to the size of the coffee cup as opposed to the way in which the coffee is poured. Therefore, you can order a cafe con leche in a ‘jarro’ or ‘jarrito’, as it is sometimes known, and you'll be served your tasty little number in a mug instead of a cup. Very simple!
Capuccino is exactly what it says on the tin, but it's worth noting that it's always served in a tall glass and as such is normally one of the biggest caffeine fixes you'll get here.
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Where can I change all that left over currencies that nobody ever really wants?
When I left Venezuela five weeks ago, I found myself in the middle of a very large problem. I had lots of Bolivares left over, which I'd saved from various months of pay and I had nowhere to buy dollars instead. Well, that's not strictly true. I could have got them changed into dollars but at a very poor rate. At that time the Bolivar was very weak and the black market ruled the country (it still does, of course). It was 7 Bolivares to the dollar, when it had been 3.5 Bolivares only a few weeks beforehand. True, the Bolivar is perhaps one of the currencies that fluctuates the most in South America, but this was ridiculous. I couldn't buy my dollars legally as there's a control on the amount of dollars that any one person can take out of the country and so the airport wasn't an option for me. Therefore, I decided to keep hold of the currency as it will be worth far more like this in the long run.
Still, it was very annoying to know that I had just over a month's worth of rent for Buenos Aires sat in my back pocket (figuratively speaking) and could do nothing with it. So, once a little more settled into my Argentine life, I went looking for a solution and......I found one! Let me share with you the knowledge.
Most ordinary banks or change bureaus looked at me with very confused faces when I asked if I could change my Bolivares into pesos. What is a Bolivar anyway? I saw written across their faces. Why would we want to buy such a currency? However, Banco Piano (on Parana, in between Sarmiento and ‘Tte Gral. J Peron. What's more, this bank worked very quickly and painlessly. I had to give them my address (which could have been either my address in BA or London.) and I had to show them my passport, but nothing more. Very normal, easy and after about 10 minutes, I came out of the bank with one month's rent and some coffee money as a treat to myself in pesos.
Therefore, if you have left over cash from Chile, Peru, Bolivar, Colombia, anywhere, and you unfortunately got stuck with it and had lost all hope for ever being able to use that money again, there's light at the end of the SAE tunnel! Get yourself on down to Banco Piano between the hours of 11.00am and 1.00pm (Tuesday to Friday) to avoid most of the hoards and you should be in and out, leaving a quick transaction in your wake.
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| Palabras! Palabras!...and...Question of the week |
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Amigovio is one of my favourite Argentine words. Literally, a combination of the words 'amigo' (friend) and 'novio' (boyfriend), it means a 'friend with benefits!' The female equivalent, obviously, is 'amigovia.'
Do you have anyone you would define as an 'amigovio/a'???
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LAST WEEK'S ANSWER.... The Burdalesa is a panaderia in Buenos Aires (found on Santa Fe and Oro - nearest subte is Plaza Italia) and they do some fantastic facturas and the cutest little sandwiches on cocktail sticks that I have ever seen. So cute, I took a photograph...
THIS WEEK'S QUESTION.... Where is Plaza Cortazar???
buenosairesclubhouse@gmail.com
Next week, I'll publish the answer....Ooooo!
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| This Week's Winning Photo |
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 Graham Newell and his photo of a woman hosing-down the ground inside Recoleta's Cemetery, has one the top spot for our photo competition again, which makes it three weeks in a row. Other entries simply could not compete. We're still in love with Graham's capture of the ordinary contrasted with the awesome. Therefore, our keen photographer and school teaching expat has managed to hold on to his fame for yet another week. Well done, Graham! Don't forget to visit his blog at: www.inthereef.blogspot.com
Remember, the aim is to take a better photograph than the previous winner (this week Graham). If we don’t receive any worthwhile contenders, Graham will stay in our newsletter next week too. Can Graham and the sparkle of Recoleta find their way into week number three?
To enter our weekly competition, simply send in your pics to my email address buenosairesclubhouse@gmail.com (please put PHOTO COMPETITION in the subject heading) and be sure to include a little info about the photo along with your details so that we can give you credit.
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Interested in putting a classified ad in this e-newsletter? Our e-newsletter goes out to over 2500 people weekly, in and around Buenos Aires. Contact me at buenosairesclubhouse@gmail.com for more information.
Learn Spanish with AMAUTA SPANISH SCHOOL
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www.amautaspanish.com info@amautaspanish.com www.spanishschoolsblog.com or visit us: www.facebook.com/people/Amauta-Spanish/1500927779?sid=0&ref=search
ENVIRONMENTAL PROJECT
I'm planning to build a catamaran sailboat out of discarded PET soft drink bottles which are littering the ecological reserve next to Puerto Madero. I'm borrowing the idea from a British environmentalist who is sailing across the Pacific in a PET bottle sailboat that he calls PLASTIKI. If there are any people from SAE who are interested in forming a crew to construct and sail it, or know of anyone in BA who would be interested, please contact me at: greganchors@yahoo.com
I need people to help gather and convert soft drink bottles in the reserve and to help me build it into a catamaran form. I then need people to help me sail it after construction. Experienced sailors are a must.
FOR SALE
The SAE shop has expanded! Guide books from $15 pesos to $80 pesos (Lonely Planet South America on a Shoestring $60 pesos), Hiking Maps of Patagonia and road maps of Buenos Aires are now available. Come by to see more, or email us: baclub@saexplorers.org
EXPAT INFO
www.livinginargentina.com is an online publication for expatriates in Argentina. It is written in English, Spanish and French. It covers almost everything that an expat might need to know and offers some interesting articles to read at the same time. Check it out!
LANGUAGE CLASSES
Learn Spanish with Elebaires!!!
We offer a variety of intensive Spanish courses for all levels in both private and group classes! All Elebaires teachers are university accredited and will do everything they can to help you meet your linguistic goals. Contact us via email at info@elebaires.com.ar or visit our website: http://www.elebaires.com.ar.
TOURISM
BA: Mallory Outdoors - Located in Palermo, Mallory offers a plethora of camping and ski equipment as well as custom knives and outdoor clothing. Stop in and browse the selection and receive a 10% discount on any purchase with your SAE member card. English and Spanish spoken.
Open Monday-Friday 10:30-21 and Saturdays from 9-15
Anchorena 1348 (between Charcas and Santa Fe)
www.malloryoutdoors.com
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