When visiting Argentina, one shouldn’t miss out on the beautiful north of this country. Endless roads, breathtaking rock formations and landscapes that alternate every five minutes, are some of the things you can expect to find when road tripping through this part of the country that is such a nice little change of scene from the capital of Buenos Aires. Continue reading
The Argentinian Lifestyle
One has simply got to love the Argentinian hospitality and friendliness. It’s almost impossible to invite your tutor to a coffee when you’ve just arrived to the city because they’re going to insist on paying for you. Getting lost anywhere is just as unthinkable, since at least three people will walk up to you to ask if they can help you find your way. Don’t you dare walk past someone you know, only waving hi without greeting them properly with a kiss on the cheek. And if you ever need anything whatsoever anytime no matter the time of the day or the year or how crazy your request might be – you can rest assured that the “Porteños” will help you out. Continue reading
Although there are a ton of things to do in the city of Buenos Aires, and we don’t even know where to start working through our list, we thought that getting out of the big and noisy city for a day couldn’t hurt. Tigre and La Plata seemed to be the perfect locations for our day-trip-plans, since both cities can easily be reached within an hour by public transportation from the Retiro bus/train terminal in BA. Being an exchange student has its perks, such as not having any classes on Fridays, and so we went on our little day trips the past two weekends. We didn’t regret visiting either one of the two places, but one of them definitely outran the other. Continue reading
The classes of our “Cuatrimestre” here in Buenos Aires started three weeks ago, and after some first impressions of the faculty, professors, style of the classes, and the tutor program of the university, it’s safe to say that the Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) is nothing like what we’re used to from home. Turns out that our home base Maastricht University (UM) is not only a lot more organised and on time when it comes to course selections or time schedules of tutorials, but you would also never imagine to have pre-drinks at the SBE faculty in Maastricht – something that’s not all that unusual here at the UBA.
After a little more than two weeks here in Buenos Aires, we’ve already established a routine of going to certain places on certain days of the week: Jobs with all the exchange students every Tuesday, Salsa on Wednesdays, Party every Friday & Brunch with the girls on Sunday. Besides those set dates, our first days in the city were also filled with special events and shows, so that we had something going on every single day of the week. I should mention at this point that our amazing tutors from the university are truly doing a great job at keeping us busy with fun international meet-ups, Raggaeton-parties and all kinds of activities. While we’re still getting used to our new sleeping rhythm of going to bed between 3-5am, getting up around 1pm, then napping from 9-11pm, before going out again, going to class hasn’t been much more than a minor activity on the side, that sometimes feels like a little punishment for having so much fun and getting so little sleep the rest of the time. Continue reading
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