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17 September 2007 ~ 0 Comments

I Can’t Wait for Spring!

For someone born and raised in The United States, adjusting to the seasons of the Southern Hemisphere can be a bit strange. When the calendar says January, my mind braces for bitter windchills, short days, and piles of snow that must be removed from the driveway–again. But down here it, means humidity, sweat, air conditioning, [...]

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04 September 2007 ~ 2 Comments

Travel Company Job

I just came across this job posting for an American company that specializes in private luxury tours.
Blue Parallel, www.blueparallel.com, is a US-based luxury travel company offering private,custom-made journeys to Latin America. We do currently have a job opening for a “travel specialist” position in our Buenos Aires office.
Requirements:

English-native speaker
University education in the US or in [...]

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24 June 2007 ~ 0 Comments

Much Better

Vanesa and I had a really nice talk today. It was the most blunt we’ve been with the situation yet the most comfortable we’ve felt in the last couple weeks. She too knows that the only peace we’ll have will be with the answer from God. She realizes that she cannot understand everything I’m going [...]

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11 June 2007 ~ 2 Comments

Rejected

We lined up outside the embassy this morning about 8:15 for Vanesa’s visa interview. We passed quickly through a line outside, proceeded through the metal detectors, and into the waiting room. In the front there were 12 different plexiglass windowed areas like you might see in a bank in a larger city. We watched for [...]

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29 May 2007 ~ 0 Comments

Nurse Kyle

Friday was the 25 de Mayo, the day Argentina declared Independence from Spain. So, not having work or attend classes, Vanesa and one of her classmates were over to watch some movies required for their film history class. They were able to watch 2 films but the subtitles on the other dvds didn’t work because [...]

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