While in Buenos Aires, Tom and I are staying with Jocelyn in her family’s apartment, which is in a GREAT location! It’s super safe and near everything. It’s essentially the Upper East Side of B.A. Staying with her and hanging out together has been a fabulous experience. It’s really shaped in a favorable way how we’ve experienced the city. I know our experience would have been so different and not as cool or thorough as it is now had we been staying in some random hostel. Thanks to Jocelyn and her family’s friends here, there are a bunch of places we’ve gone and cool things we’ve done that we never otherwise would have known to do or experienced. And we’re going to be able to use some of her family’s connections in Peru to do more cool stuff there, so everything is just working out really well.
B.A. is such an urban city that it’s easy to forget that you’re in a third-world country. When we go out at night, especially, I really feel like we’re in NYC. There’s a part that looks a lot like Times Square, an area similar to Broadway, we take black-and-yellow taxis everywhere, there are big billboards everywhere and electronic ads…other than the people or families begging for money or the homeless people sleeping in parks (which any city has), there’s not any reminder within the city center or nearby areas that we are in fact in a developing country. Driving into the city from the airport (seeing the outskirts) it was visible, but since then, no. We are going to tour La Boca, the B.A. neighborhood most people know because it’s super colorful and was the home of tango, so I expect that’ll be more of a reminder of where we are because it has a lot of poverty.
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