ARGENTINA - Expat Contests

Writing Contest October 2012

¿Hablás Español?

I do not believe there is an exact recipe for living as a happy expat. I cannot tell you, “two parts positive attitude, 2 parts open heart, 1 part adventuresome soul.” Everyone in the expatriate community ended up far from home for a plethora of reason; therefore, our remedy is likely to change from person to person, place to place and...

Expat Blog Awards 2013

7 Reasons Rosario is Not for Tourists

I arrived to Rosario on a day when the word excruciating fell short of it’s meaning and the word melting combined did an absolute injustice to the definition of things. It was January 27th, 2006 and, while it sounds quite cliche, I had come here to “see about a guy.”  Dripping with sweat and absorbed in my nervousness, I descended the...

Education and International Schools

An American at the National University of Cordoba

Intro to Psychology at the National University of CordobaArgentina offers free higher education. That in itself is a major incentive to move here, but things aren’t always what they appear to be. I had this misguided impression that the National University of Cordoba was going to take me in without a hitch. After all, I’ve lived,...

Expat Culture Shock

Che! What a Shock!

One of the toughest things about being an expat is that I have desperately tried to find similarities between Cordoba Argentina and the United States. After months of struggling I came to the conclusion that this simply does not work. In Argentina, fall and winter is between May and mid-September (unlike the United States where it’s...