Hello Campers!          

Chocolate Tasting Fun with Venezuelan chocolate, that really should be described as jewels in a jewelry shop, was had by many in The Clubhouse last Thursday afternoon. Some pictures are included for you all to drool over once again!

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On the theme of photos, I am, as always, awaiting all your entries for our weekly newsletter slot. Also, if you have any questions on any topic you can always email me at buenosairesclubhouse@saexplorers.org

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For more food and drink, don't forget about the Artesanal Beer Tasting THIS WEEK (See Clubhouse Events below for the full details). The beer is good and the picada never runs out!

See you there,
Tracey

SPANISH CONVERSATION CLASS* (EVERY) Wednesday.
Next lesson: Wednesday 9th Sept 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.
Please RSVP by sending an email at BAevents@saexplorers.org and reserve yourself a place.

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FREE Amauta Spanish School Events
1. Salsa Class - Wednesday 9th September @ 1pm
2. Latin American Dance Class - Friday 11th September @ 1pm
For full details of how to get to Amauta Spanish School where the classes take place:
Contact Us at The Clubhouse by sending an email to BAevents@saexplorers.org and reserve yourself a place.

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Artesanal Beer Tasting Event
Thursday 10th September at V&S Hostel, Viamonte 887 @ 7.00pm
We are hosting our monthly Artesanal Beer Tasting Session again. As this event has proved to be SO popular, we are going to host it in V&S Hostel this time so that there is more room to enjoy what’s on offer. The hostel is a lovely spot with an open terrace and large, bright lounge area where the event will be held. Hernán, our Argentine host, will as always be providing some of his excellent beer to taste and explaining the exact process behind making the beer itself. In addition, we always provide a picada (cheeses, nuts, olives and a selection of meats), so don´t miss out on one of our BEST events this time around!
5 pesos for members and 10 pesos for non-members
Please RSVP by sending an email at BAevents@saexplorers.org and reserve yourself a

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ADVANCED WARNINGS
We are now in a position to be giving a lot more 'basic' warnings for our events as a result of our gradual development in this area. Therefore, check out the following information and begin to bear it all in mind now ….

Thursday 17th September – Cooking class: Empanadas 6.00ish. Venue to be confirmed
Saturday 19th September – Volunteer day, all day. Organisation to be confirmed
Friday 25th September – Gallery Hop in San Telmo 5:30ish. Venues to be confirmed

ADVERTISING WITH SAE!!!!
If you want to advertise with us, making yourself known to expats and tourists who pass through our office or who live in BA, there are a number of affordable options available to you including web space, newsletter banners or classifieds and printed publications that we distribute through BA and from our office in the Microcentro. If you have any queries, contact our Marketing Manager, Caroline Stephenson at baadvertising@saexplorers.org
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INTERN WITH US!
Over the past few months we’ve had some fantastic interns – Caroline Major (Brazil expert from London), Amelia Edwards (Events Manager from Philadelphia), Jessica Dufresne (Marketing Wizz Kid from Michigan), Caroline Stephenson (the bonnie Welsh lass who has recently accepted the advertising baton from the Michigan Kid) and Kat Mowbray – our newest addition who has a canny knack for getting stuff for free! We are a fantastic bunch and it’s a pleasure coming to the office every day. So, if you want some SAE experience and you feel you’ve got something to offer, get in touch with us at baclub@saexplorers.org
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Do you have a product you would like to sell?
Our Clubhouse here in BA is a good place to sell stuff. Why???? Because people pass through here all the time. We are willing to set up an agreement with anyone interested in selling something (for example, if you make great bags, jewellery or you want to sell some art) whereby we take care of the sales for you in exchange for receiving a small percentage of the purchase itself. Interested??? Email us at baclub@saexplorers.org
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Storing Luggage at The Clubhouse – THE STORAGE VENUE HAS CHANGED!!!
Please remember that if you want to store or pick-up luggage you need to make an appointment with us beforehand via email. Our luggage store location has changed and it is impossible to simply pop by and collect things stored or drop stuff off. We need to be given notice to avoid causing you unnecessary stress. So, please...... Email all luggage correspondence to baclub@saexplorers.org AHEAD OF TIME!
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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
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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.

1. Gisela Griunti, Language School
Gisela Griunti is offering SAE members a 10% discount off of her Spanish lessons. Gisela is a qualified Spanish teacher based in Buenos Aires and she has a Certificate in Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language together with a degree in Journalism. With an office at Uriburu 541 6 A, Gisela is ideally located.
155-626-0162
www.giselagiunti.com

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2. The Clan House B&B, Aldolfo Alsina 917
The Clan B&B is offering SAE members an exclusive 4 nights for the price of 3 in their five person dormitory room with private bathroom. Located at walking distance from Buenos Aires' main tourist attractions, the B&B is housed in an antique house fully renovated to receive travellers looking for privacy at a good price. The services included are: full buffet breakfast (from 8am to 12pm), free Internet access (WI-FI available), towels, coffee and tea courtesy all day long and the best staff to help you with all your needs.
Tel Number (+54 11) 43314448
info@bedandbreakfastclan.com.ar
www.bedandbreakfastclan.com.ar

La Burdalesa
On the corner of Santa Fe and Oro, very close to the Palermo subte stop on the D Line, is one of the best panaderías in Buenos Aires. It is called La Burdalesa and a sweet-lover’s heaven.

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It has to be said that on the top of all things sweet, Buenos Aires is outstanding. It cannot be denied that a place which is home to dulce de leche and alfajores is anything but an expert with sugar and refined products. In addition, the presentation of the various cakes, tarts, chocolates and pastries on offer is quite simply excellent.

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Shop windows full of sickly treats have never tempted me as much as they do in the windows of Buenos Aires, but La Burdalesa is a cut above the rest in terms of quality, variety, quantity, customer care and price.

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Whenever you buy anything in this bakery, the way in which the goods are wrapped up is enough to make you think that you’ve just bought some very expensive lingerie in Selfridges in London or in Macy’s in New York. You really do leave with a gift when you leave La Burdalesa, whether that’s a gift for someone else or for yourself!

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There are so many things to buy that it seems futile to begin listing them all, however, do expect to see a range of sandwiches (sometimes very cute mini-ones held together with cocktail sticks), large cakes, budins, pastry slices, cream filled wonders, facturas and biscuits galore.

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However, their muffins are, in my opinion, the best thing to buy for a afternoon treat as a strong coffee accompaniment in the relaxation of your own sweet abode. They have some fantastic combinations of muffins on offer, including chocolate and cashew (my favourite – what a combination!), the muffins are huge (I didn’t actually want to eat anything else for the rest of the day) and they only cost 3 pesos!!! (which, when you look at the size of the things, is quite impressive).

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To sum up, I feel it important to reiterate that the muffins are not the only fantastic buy to be had in this week’s Top Food Spot, and so if muffins are what you go for, you can be sure to find something that you’ll like. Take a stroll through the botanical gardens, a breeze around Plaza Italia and stop off at La Burdalesa before moving on to your next adventure in Argentina’s very sweet capital.

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The city of Salta has a fairly small and has a very pretty plaza at its heart. The plaza is surrounded by a number of very nice bars and restaurants and full to the brim with people day and night. The cathedral is beautiful and there is a gondola that you can take up to the top of El Cerro, about 1000m, very close to the centre. In fact walking up, taking a coffee in the restaurant at the top and then taking the gondola down is a lovely way to get acquainted with the city when you arrive.

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Aside from eating, drinking and lazing around on a park bench in the sunshine, or the ride on the gondola, Salta does offer the visitor one very special surprise in the form of an exhibition at The MAAM (Museum Arqueología de Alta Montaña… The High Mountain Archeological Museum in Salta).

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Inside this museum, a Salta visitor can see and learn about the three mummy children who are over 500 years old and, incredibly due to the conditions in surrounding mountains where they were found, perfectly intact.

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The Museum itself was opened in 2004 and allows the visitor to learn a little about the lives, culture and heritage of the INCAs and the mummy children in particular. The three children were found in 1999 in the Llullaillaco Volcano (above 6739 metres above sea level) in the Andes range.

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Buried with the children were over 100 other different artefacts that had been offered up to the INCA gods as a ritual sacrifice along with the three youngsters. It was customary to offer up the most beautiful and healthy of children as a sacrifice and therefore seen by the INCA community as a great honour to have your child chosen from many.

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The children were found deep underground as though they had been lowered down carefully into some kind of well formation. They were found to have traces of alcohol on their lips, perhaps as a way to subdue them as they were passed down into the wells and one child, the female (thought to be 15 years of age), had been slightly deformed from what appears to have been a lightning bolt.

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The exhibition is fascinating and impossible to describe on paper. Looking at a child’s body, over 500 years old, but in absolute perfect condition is astounding. It makes a trip to Salta even more worthy and definitely well worth the 20 pesos entrance fee.

CUIT number
If you are trying to look for work in Buenos Aires, you will probably have realised that in order to get paid (when working for a company, at least) you need something called a CUIT number. Obtaining such a number can be a long and lengthy process and quite a lot of the time, applications are denied.

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However, I am one of those lucky people (working in BA as a teacher of English as well as for SAE) who has managed to get their CUIT number and for me it was a fairly painless process.

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To explain how to go about getting a number in this newsletter would take a lot of time and would perhaps be fairly complex reading too. However, if anyone needs help in this area and wants to come in to the office or contact me directly to ask questions, please feel free.

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My email address is, as always buenosairesclubhouse@saexplorers.org and the only thing I ask is that if you plan to come in to the office, send me an email giving me notice. All my documents on obtaining the CUIT are at my flat and it is impossible for me to remember everything without them.

Palabras, Palabras!

In Argentina they say barbaro and in Venezuela they say chévere. In English, one of the closest translations would be ´cool.´

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LAST WEEK’S QUESTION.......What are the main ingredients for an alfajor? What are the main ingredients for an alfajor? Flour, eggs, baking powder, sugar, vanilla essence and coconut are all necessary. However, which ingredient is the most important? What can an alfajor truly not do without?..... The all-important Dulce de Leche!!!

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THIS WEEK’S QUESTION....... When the first English feet stepped onto Argentine soil, what little pictures did they engrave into their own styles of mate? (Hint.... there were three things).

Answers to: buenosairesclubhouse@saexplorers.org

Next week, I'll publish the answer....Ooooo!