SPANISH CONVERSATION CLASS* (EVERY) Wednesday.
Next lesson: Wednesday 16th September 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 Truco and Mate Afternoon (Argentine Card Game)
Wednesday 16th September @ 4.45pm in The Clubhouse (straight after conversation class)
Do you know how to play the Argentine card game called 'Truco'? It's a very cool game, full of subtle looks and signals between the different players that makes for an entertaining afternoon. Amauta Spanish School are sending some of their experienced representatives to the BA Clubhouse to teach you all. It's going to be a fun afternoon - delivered in Spanish, so more practice for you (with us on hand to translate as always) - and the best thing is that we've organised this activity to run directly after the Spanish conversation class on Wednesday. That means that you don't have to find time to come to the Clubhouse on another day and your Spanish will be nicely oiled to participate in the game too. How can you resist?!
Please RSVP by sending an email at BAevents@saexplorers.org and reserve yourself a place.

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FREE Events with Amauta Spanish School
(SAE Members qualify for the FREE entry only).
Course about The Porteño Neighbourhoods @ Amauta Spanish School
Tuesday 15th September @ 1pm
Tango Class @ Amauta Spanish School
Friday 18th September @ 1pm
For information about HOW TO GET TO Amauta Spanish School, contact us at The Clubhouse via email BAevents@saexplorers.org

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Empanada Cooking Class
Thursday 17th September @ 3.00pm at The Hostel Clan
At The Hostel Clan on Adolfo Alsina 912, tel. 4334-3401 we'll be learning how to make both meat and veggie empanadas. IT IS VITAL THAT YOU RSVP because the hostel needs to know numbers.
Price: 10 pesos for members and 15 pesos for non-members
Please RSVP by sending an email at BAevents@saexplorers.org and reserve yourself a place.
For more details about the hostel, go to www.hostelclan.com.ar

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ADVANCED WARNINGS!!!

Keep your diary free for the following SAE Events.
Don't miss out!

San Telmo Gallery Hop (and hot chocolate with churros)
Friday 25th September 2009 @ 5pm (venues tbc)
SAE Party and Asado
1st October 2009 (venue and time tbc)
Wine Tasting Event (with professional sommelier)
Tuesday 22nd October 2009 @ 7pm (venue tbc)

Another new intern, but this time...... it's a BOY!!!!
Graeme Fox, from Dublin in Ireland, is the newest addition to our crazy team here in BA. Graeme has arrived with very little plans to leave (once we get our claws into him, he will not be able to go, even if he wants to!) As our first male intern, we hope he won’t be our last. We particularly like the way in which he taps ever so lightly on the door at 10.00am when arriving for a full-on day in the house of fun.
If you have any questions about discounts or information we have on hostels and restaurants, you can email him at badiscounts@saexplorers.org

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ADVERTISING WITH SAE!!!!
We're focusing a lot on advertising at the moment. Whether you're an Argentine business or if you've simply got something that you want to sell off quickly for a few bucks, call us! Contact our Marketing Manager, Caroline Stephenson at baadvertising@saexplorers.org to ask about our various publications and all the deals on offer.

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INTERN WITH US!
Over the past few months we’ve had some fantastic interns – Jessica Dufresne (Marketing Wizz Kid from Michigan), Caroline Stephenson (Advertising Superwoman from Wales), Kat Mowbray (Events Manager from England) and most recently Nina Schuster from Germany and Graeme Fox from Ireland, who are both all hands on deck with admin resources and website updating. 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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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.

Hostel Tango
Hostel Tango Suites captures exactly what San Telmo is all about. Nestled in the heart of this historic Buenos Aires neighbourhood, Hostel Tango offers rooms ranging from two beds to shared dormitories in a classic, colonial style building. Guests can also enjoy a piece of Argentine culture with tango and Spanish lessons, and "asados" (BBQs) on Fridays. Other services include breakfast, a fully equipped kitchen, Internet and WI-FI, and a TV room. SAE Members- remember to present your membership card at Hostel Tango Suites to receive a 10% discount off of lodging!
Chacabuco 747, San Telmo, Buenos Aires
(+54 11) 4300-2420 or 4300-6026
www.hosteltangoargentina.com.ar
info@hosteltangoargentina.com

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Tangol
Tangol is a travel agency for the independent traveller.
Offering everything from Buenos Aires City Tours to Sailing and Yachting Trips and with some excellent special offers, Tangol can help you to arrange the perfect day, week or even assist you with your whole trip across Argentina. The friendly English-speaking staff are available to answer all your questions on the ground floor office at
Florida 971, Shop 31
(54 11) 4312-7276.
www.tangol.com lists the great packages available to you.

Spring Wine Tour Urbano
From 18th September 2009, on each third Friday in the months of September, October and November, the fashion boutiques along Armenia and Honduras in Palermo Viejo offer a glass of wine whilst you shop. Each boutique is attached to a particular national winery and so the variety of what’s on offer to taste is excellent.

Cost: One night pesos 35, two nights pesos 60, three nights peso 90
From: 7pm-10pm

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South American Music Conference
On Saturday 19th September, around 40 Argentine and international DJs spin out trance, techno and house music at the annual South American Music Conference in the GEBA Stadium in Palermo. Industry professionals network at conferences and workshops. If music is you life, this event should be on your calendar. A night to remember in BA.
Cost: 100 pesos – 180 pesos
From: 6pm until late

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Nuevos horizontes en la Laguna
@ The Borges Cultural Centre (Centro Cultural Borges) on San Martín and Viamonte
This Visual Arts Event is an investigation and experimentation by The Academia de Bellas Artes de Venecia. Some of the work looks highly provocative and well deserving of a keen artist’s eye. Also, as the featured “Top Argentine Focus” this week is about Jorge Luis Borges himself, why not check out the cultural centre that is named after him for an hour or so?
Cost: FREE
When: running until 4th October 09
www.ccborges.org.ar/index2.htm

The Café inside Boutique del Libro

Inside Boutique del Libro (written about below in Top Place of Interest) is a really beautiful café. It is an excellent place to sit and relax with a good book, to chat with friends or to make use of free wi-fi. The wi-fi connection here is really strong and very reliable. Also, you will not be on the receiving end of any biting looks for lingering over a coffee for hours just to make use of the internet connection either. This café is most definitely laptop user friendly.

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The decor and ambience of Boutique del Libro also works to its favour. Solid wooden chairs and tables occupy most of the surroundings and the bar is very well decked and presented. However, there is also a section with a beautiful, antique comfy armchair and sofa, warmly lit up by a tall freestanding floor lamp, complete with amber lampshade that creates a warm glow across the area.

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The menu is also another plus point for this café, offering salads, sandwiches, meriéndas and coffees galore. The sandwiches and salads are made to order. You can choose from a large selection of tasty ingredients (up to three ingredients for each dish) all for about 20 pesos.

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The licuados with either water or milk are served in a very tall glass and well worth the 10 pesos. Again a variety of fruits are available and the amount of fruit used to make each drink means that you can be sure to get at least one portion of your five a day here. Alternatively, why not try an alcoholic coffee of an eventide (as Boutique del Libro is open until 10pm every day, including Sundays) and get a little warm feeling inside from a shot of Baileys or a finely selected whisky.

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Equally, if a early morning breakfast or mid-afternoon stop-off is on the cards, the breakfasts and meriéndas, all served for under 20 pesos, are an excellent choice to keep hunger at bay. There are five different selections and are neatly named using national references. For example, the Americano includes coffee or tea, orange juice, scrambled eggs on toast with ham and toast on the side. Another choice is the Argentino, made up of coffee or tea, orange juice, toast with cheese, jam or dulce de leche. There is even a very healthy choice which includes a fruit platter too.

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Personally, I have to recommend the café praliné (coffee with praline). This coffee comes served black and in a small glass, with a chocolate covered biscotti biscuit on the side. However, what is so good about this order is that the praline is not just a flavouring in the coffee.... the coffee actually comes with pieces of chopped praline, neatly dropped inside. That means that when finishing the coffee, there is the wonderful experience of scooping up small pieces of praline to be had at the end.

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A beautiful to finish a beautifully calm existence in one of the prettiest and intriguing bookstores in the city.

Boutique del Libro

There are many places to buy books in the city (see Top Expat Knowledge below for more details) but it is doubtful whether there are many bookstores as beautiful as Boutique del Libro in Palermo.

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The presentation as you enter this bookshop knocks you back. The bookcases stretch up to the ceiling and are deeply set back into the walls. There are wooden rung ladders found hanging around different parts of the shelves, giving access to the uppermost sections of the books on offer.

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Down the centre of the aisles, heavy, wooden wheelbarrows of books tempt the avid reader to stop and scout through what’s on offer and the specialist magazine rack in the centre of the store as you enter is full to the brim with a number of different, specialist publications, advocating Boutique del Libro as a place which really knows everything there is to know about the written word in Buenos Aires.

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Besides the café inside (previously mentioned above), Boutique del Libro also houses a small, independent music store. It also organizes and hosts various events throughout the month; this week being a reading by Adalana Midaleo. Boutique del Libro is more than a bookstore with a café. It is a hip and happening pocket of overflowing information in the land of books.

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The message wall at the back of the store, behind the sofa in the café, is testament to the fact that many people have enjoyed and still enjoy visiting Boutique del Libro for whatever reason. If you haven’t been, there’s no time like the present.

Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine Writer born in Buenos Aires

Jorge Luis Borges is one of the most famous and remembered of Argentine writers of all time. The proof of his importance in Argentine literature is bathed all over the city of Buenos Aires if you know where to look.

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Firstly, the Centro Cultural Borges, located inside Galerías Pacíficas on San Martin and Viamonte in the Microcentro, is one obvious example. It is a centre devoted to the promotion of the arts, housing photography exhibitions (last week they housed the Clarín photography exhibit for example) and home to many types of classes, including ballet and acting for all. In addition, the simple existence of the street name, Jorge Luis Borges in Palermo, is another indication of how much Argentines wish to remember his contribution to literature.

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Borges began publishing poems and essays in Surrealist literary journals, was fluent in several languages and a target of political persecution during the Peron regime. Blind by his late fifties, Borges eventually died in Switzerland in 1986. Fictions and Labyrinths are two collections of his work that have been published in English by The New York Press and are an easy way of getting to grips with a little of the writer’s accomplishments.

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If a lighter introduction to Borges is what you’re interested in, take a coffee or go for a meal in San Telmo’s ´La Poesia´. This restaurant houses some photographs of the man himself, amongst other literary greats, and so ask around to get a peek on what the Argentine poet actually looked like.

Other Top Bookstores in the City

Buenos Aires is famous for the importance it has always placed on books and literature in general. In December, the annual Noche de Las Librerías (Bookstor Night) is testament enough to the fact that books play an important role in the daily life of the people of Buenos Aires.

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Every year, the government organises this event where bookstores stay up all night, move furniture out onto the streets for people to sit and read more comfortably in the blazing heat of December and Buenos Aires has itself a night of reading. What bliss! However, the range of bookstores that can be found in the city are also more proof of the capital’s literary fever.

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Firstly, and perhaps most widely known, is the Ateneo Bookstore on Santa Fe. This beautiful bookstore which used to be a theatre is now one of the most sort after bookstores on the tourist track in Buenos Aires.

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The theatre was constructed in 1919 by a young man named Max Glucksman who named it The Grand Splendid. In 1924, he began broadcasting a radio station, entitled Radio Splendid, from the fourth floor of the building and recorded a number of albums with the great tango music makers of the day. In the late twenties, The Grand Splendid was converted into a cinema and began showing the first of the films made with sound. Its final transformation was into the book store as we know it today. Therefore, not only is this bookshop a great place to buy quality music and books, but it also has a beautiful history that oozes from its very pores from the moment you arrive.

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More than a simple book shop, Ateneo is in itself a tribute to the arts and literature in particular. I love the lights, I love the balconies (where you can sit with a good book and spend almost half of the day reading quietly without distraction), I love the colours and the grand nature of the layout as well as the range of literature on offer. There are authors from across the globe and books in many languages. There's also a little cafe situated on what used to be the theatre's ample stage and it's a lovely little spot. It is rather expensive, as it is serviced by a waiter and they regularly have a pianist playing during the early evenings – only the best for the Ateneo elite!

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If looking for some English books whilst in BA, Walrus Books in San Telmo is the place to head to. In its great central location on Estados Unidos 617, this bookshop is excellently placed to meet all SAE members' needs and offers a wide range of books for the intrepid traveller and expat to choose from.

www.walrus-books.com.ar

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The bookshop sells used books in English and there are approximately 6000 different titles, including literature, Argentine and Latin American history, classic and modern novels and poetry, all in English.

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As an area, the bookstores that stretch along Corrientes all the way from 9 de Julio until Callao. These bookstores are always offering great deals and discounts. Some of them house second-hand copies of stuff for dirt cheap prices and others are more specialised and stock everything bought new. Here’s a little breakdown of a few of them:

• Obel Libros – good for Latin American social and economic matters.
• Libreria Lucas – stocks lots of childrens books.
• Libreria Hernandez – sells some really nice porteño cook books.
• Posadas Libros – is housed in a huge building and is worth going to see just for that reason.

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However, if you are looking for CHEAP guide books, then the best place to go is….. The SAE Clubhouse! You will not find guide books on South America cheaper anywhere else in the city. It’s a fact.

Palabras, Palabras!
This is a personal favourite, although when you'd use it in ordinary chit chat, I'd don't know. However, if having a deeply interesting conversation with someone about real subjects and high emotion, this word may come in handy. Derriterse is a reflexive verb meaning 'to fall madly in love with.' However, this translation is fairly literal, because this verb can be used to describe the action of falling into any feeling of high emotion, worry, fret or stress, for example. Having said that, I do hope that you only ever make use of it when in a world of bliss and harmony.

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LAST WEEK’S QUESTION.......What symbols were commonly found on the mates of the first English to arrive in Argentina? The answer is: small children, animals and flowers. For that reason, I have a mate that has an engraving of a small rose around the top that I have decided to share with you through a photograph.

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THIS WEEK’S QUESTION.......What is a submarino?

Answers to: buenosairesclubhouse@saexplorers.org

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

Last week, our very own SAE intern, Nina, contributed the gorgeous little penguins from Puerto Madre that had the whole Clubhouse swooning from how cute they were. This week, newest intern and our very first BOY! Graeme Fox, contributes a manly addition to the photo collection with his ‘King of South America’ snap. What a pic!

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To enter our weekly competition, simply send in your pics to my email address buenosairesclubhouse@saexplorer (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.

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 SAE’s Jessica from the BA Clubhouse at baadvertising@saexplorers.org for more information.

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Dental Argentina
Did you know that a periodic dental examination is indispensable?
Contact us to get a FREE dental check-up (SAE members only).
Improve and flash your smile with our cosmetic treatments: cleaning, bleaching, porcelain veneers, and more…
· Put and end to the toothache or broken tooth and start enjoying your smile.
· We provide you with emergency care too. Ask us for insurance reimbursement.
· Dentists and staff speak English!
· Recommended by Time Out BA and the Calgary Herald.
CALL NOW 4828-0821 to make an appointment today, or send us an e-mail to:
info@dental-argentina.com
( put *SAE FREE CHECK-UP* in the subject heading.)
www.dental-argentina.com
Uruguay 292 9º B, Downtown Buenos Aires
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WE NEED A PLACE TO LIVE!
1 or 2 room furnished apartment needed by two Irish women for two months from 11th September to 11th November, 2009.
Please contact Celine or Hilary on celary50@yahoo.co.uk with details.

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Looking for a place to stay????
SMALL BEDROOM WITH PRIVATE BATH IN LARGE, SUNNY PALERMO-RECOLETA APARTMENT. FULLY FURNISHED, WIFI, WASHING MACHINE, CABLE.
AR$1400 PER MONTH
CALL REBECCA 15-6416-2219 or email me @ rhinely@gmail.com
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Learn Spanish with AMAUTA SPANISH SCHOOL
Finally in Buenos Aires! AMAUTA brought over 12 years of experience in Spanish Language and cultural study from Peru to Argentina. Exacting standards and engaging teachers put AMAUTA at the top of its class. Beautiful location with garden and terrace. Amazing discounts for the opening of the new locations ánd, we give away THREE ONE WEEK SPANISH COURSES per week, totally for free! Write now and you might be the lucky one. Till June 30th only. Also special discounts at our Cusco location.
www.amautaspanish.com, info@amautaspanish.com, www.spanishschoolsblog.com
or visit us: www.facebook.com/people/Amauta-Spanish/1500927779?sid=0&ref=search
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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
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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!
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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.