Goodbye Mad-Lib

See you all tomorrow on the Costera bus to Kristal's place! Call me or send a message if you want to all get on the same bus. We can go all the way there, canchero style! Haha.

So here's one of our goodbye Mad-Libs, created by you. Thanks for an amazing year!

Well, it's been quite an admirable year! We started out with fifty students and now we've been run down to two. Those of us who still stop our birds every class are only only the smallest!

Charly and Kristal come from a dirty country, a place where people like to put water on their chili, wear long or dumb clothes, dance to rock and roll music, and jump wild poops.

We will certainly fly them madly after they play away in their truck, but we know they will always have smelly memories of our dark country, the Smooth Republic of Argentina.

Soon summer will arrive so we can go on vacation to our homes in Mar del Plata, Junín, or Río Cuarto, or even the Bahamas or Tajikistan. After that we'll be back to the Hairy University of La Plata, loud and fuzzy, ready to mock again.

See you later, radiators!

Ultimate Goodbye-Party!!!

Hello all,

As most of you know, we're almost all done with the práctico sections of English 3 and Charly and I are getting ready to leave Argentina as our Fulbright fellowships come to an end.  We have had a fantastic school year with you and have learned a great deal from you.  Every day after class, I leave Humanidades so thankful to have had this opportunity to get to know you and to learn about your lives and experiences. I hope the learning experience was mutual and that you also enjoyed our time together. 

Anyhoo, we're throwing a big goodbye-party (no, there's no snazzy word in English for "despedida"- just Goodbye Party, or Going-Away Party).  We hope that you can all come.  Also, everyone from English 3 is invited whether they are still attending class or not, so if you have friends that left the class, please tell them about the party!!!  It's on November 15th (that's Saturday) and it starts at around 10:30 pm (but come any time after that). It'll take place in my famous subsuelo an San Telmo.  I know, it's a far journey for you to go to the Capital, but it's really easy to get to my place using the Costera Chevallier bus (with the rose on it).  Come either "por autopista" or "por centenario" and get off at the first stop in the city on Juan de Garay.  You'll be on the corner with Paseo Colon.  Cross Paseo Colon, and my building is the first one there with a mural painted on it.  The address is Juan de Garay Nº223, depto 1.  If you come by car, there's usually parking available in front. We hope you can come share our last night in Argentina with us.  Feel free to bring friends and whatever you like to drink.  We'll have the beer bong ready for you (heehee)!

Love,

Kristal

Fiesta HALLOWEEN!!!

A thousand thanks to all of you for the best party since... haha, ever!!! Your costumes were amazing!

Photos will be up on Facebook soon.

Fiesta Halloween

Alright, you already know, but

HALLOWEEN PARTY
Costume Party!! Fiesta de disfraces!!

Tonight, Friday, Oct. 31

@ Wadoo Wadoo Cantobar, Calle 54 Número 632 e/ 7 y 8.

22hrs - pizza, beer, live music, CD pre-release of Charly's "Musical Travel Journal"
Right after that - Karaoke
~2 am - baile: hip hop, electrónica, etc etc etc

Any questions, concerns, comments, queries? chuckabbo@gmail.com or 011-3251-9018

Attendance Make-up Day

Just a reminder...  

We're having our attendance make-up day this Friday, that's 10/10 at Antares on calle 56 entre 11 y 12.  We'll be there from 19:30 to 21:30.  You don't have to buy anything to eat or drink if you don't want to, just come hang out!

Any questions?  Email Charly or Kristal.

The Left Hand of Darkness

Since we've been dedicating some time to "The Left Hand of Darkness" in our class sections, I think it's only fitting that we have an online discussion board for anyone who wants to further explore the novel here.

I'd like to start the discussion by posting a few links that might be helpful when reading the book:
The Wikipedia entry
A map of the planet Gethen
An online book review from Slashdot.com
A short biography and interview with Le Guin on The SF Site
A glossary of terms from Le Guin World, a website dedicated to the author

In our next class discussion, bring in a list of any "alien" words that appear in the book and we can define them together.

*A correction: In the first class incorrectly stated that "shifgrethor" refers to a personal struggle to save face. This is actually a definition for the phrase "playing shifgrethor". The word "shifgrethor," when used alone in the book, refers to "social prestige" or "prestige-rank". In the novel it is explained that the term means "to cast a long shadow" in the Karhidish tongue.