Posted on March 29th, 2011 by Ariella Weintraub
CHINAAAAAAAAA. That’s the word on the street. Well, at least the word you’ll hear if you’re traveling with myself, Lindsay, Victoria and Madeline. As we walked off the plane towards customs at the Shanghai international airport, we could not help but repeat the word “China!” with glee. As Madeline snapped pictures of their life-sized cut-out [...]
Posted on June 30th, 2010 by Ariella Weintraub
As much spanish as I have learned during my month in Uruguay, I´ve had my fair share of mishaps. And I´m not just referring to my agua sin gas fiasco. Everytime I order food at a counter, they´ve asked the simple question (in spanish of course): for here or to go. Normally I can say [...]
Posted on June 28th, 2010 by Ariella Weintraub
One night Cory andd I had the pleasure of being invited over to our friend Luli´s friend Pati´s house for dinner. It was there that we were treated to a deliscious Uruguayan home cooked meal. The menu included malanaisa (a thin cooked meat), a corn tart (those Uruguayan´s do love their tartes. Seriously though, that´s [...]
Posted on June 24th, 2010 by Ariella Weintraub
There are still a few things I still can´t get used to. Take for example: dinner starting at 10pm, or the fact that there is a second staffer on the bus who collects your fare (no metro cards here), and that performers and candy salesmen (similar to those on the subway in NYC) can board [...]
Posted on June 22nd, 2010 by Ariella Weintraub
There I was again, exactly a week later after my first blog post, taking in a nice afternoon lunch at the same Cafe Yenny. Would you believe that I was able to order completely in spanish this time? For real! What did I order you ask? The exact same thing as last week. Hey, if [...]
Posted on June 17th, 2010 by Ariella Weintraub
Hola, como estas? (or como andos? as they say in Uruguay). For those of you who don´t know spanish, that means Hello, how are you? Yes someone said that to me and I didn´t know what it meant, seriously. Okay, not seriously, but I´m trying to give you an idea of how little spanish I [...]
Posted on June 13th, 2010 by Ariella Weintraub
And so it begins. Doesn´t it seem like every long journey starts with a phrase like that? Well in this case I should say: and so it finally begins. After planning on going for over a year, possible cancellations, and a whole lot of flight delays later, I have finally arrived in Montevideo, Uruguay, where I [...]