gooooool ...

        6 Games played up to 2011:
             Argentina    Chile
        Win          2        1
        Loss         1        2
        Draw 3        3

watch the Boca Juniors

no hablo mucho español

Hola./Qué tal!
Buenos días./Buenas tardes.
Habla usted inglés?
No entiendo.
Cómo está?
Bien, gracias. Y usted?
Estoy perdido(a)
Dónde está el baño?
Cuánto cuesta?
pequeño/mediano/grande
Adiós.

... more practicing here.

Hoy quiero contarles una pequeña historia acerca de cómo celebramos la Navidad en Alemania.
Nuestras familias se reúnen en la tarde del veinticuatro de diciembre para el café y el pastel de Navidad. A continuación, los niños tienen que cantar una canción o recitar un poema. Sólo entonces se les permite abrir sus regalos. El árbol de Navidad es siempre un secreto para los niños y sólo es decorado en la mañana de la víspera de Navidad.

Hoy en día, el seis de diciembre es el Día de San Nicolás. Los niños ponen una de sus botas fuera de su puerta la noche anterior, y en la mañana del día de San Nicolás se encuentran muchos regalos de Navidad en la bota.

Ach, Mann ... Weihnachtsmann ... mann-o-mann ...

Argentina or Vice Royalty of Rio de la Plata

1580 Spanish establish a permanent colony in Buenos Aires

1776 Buenos Aires, seat of the Vice Royalty of Rio de la Plata

1816 Jose de San Martin, Argentina full independence

1819-20 Civil war

1829 Argentine Confederation

1853 Argentine Republic.

1879-80 The War of the Desert between Argentine troops and settlers and Native Americans

1943 A coup brings Juan Peron to power

1947 Women gain the right to vote

1949 new constitution
1996 don't cry for me Argentina


entry fee for Canadians US$75 cash or credit card


Argentine Peso               Canadian Dollar
1 ARS = 0.245272 CAD 1 CAD = 4.07710 ARS

Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)

1764 colonized by French sailors
1765 claimed by Britain
1767 claimed by Spain
1820 claimed by Argentina
1826 Argentinian colony
1833 claimed by Britain
1982 Anglo-Argentine war
dispute remains unresolved

Falkland Island Pound Canadian Dollar
1 FKP = 1.61610 CAD 1 CAD = 0.618772 FKP

Antarctica

350 B.C. Greek had the idea
1773 James Cook crosses the Antarctic circle and circumnavigates Antarctica
1819 - 21  Captain Thaddeus Bellingshausen made the first sighting of the continent
1840 James Clark Ross takes two ships, the Erebus and the Terror, to within 80 miles of the coast
1902 Captain Scott leads his first Antarctic expedition to try to reach the South Pole
1909 Douglas Mawson reaches the South Magnetic Pole
1911 Roald Amundsen leads a five man expedition that reaches the South Pole for the first time
1912 Captain Scott reaches the South Pole to discover he has been beaten by Amundsen
1923 large-scale factory ship whaling in the Ross Sea
1929 Byrd and three others become the first to fly over the South Pole
1957 - 1958 International Geophysical Year (IGY) 12 nations establish over 60 stations. Antarctica becomes "non-national"
1961 Antarctic treaty comes into effect
2007 - 2009 International Polar Year

long time ago in Chile

15th century Incas
1541 Santiago founded by Pedro de Valdivia
until early 1880s Araucanians
1818 Chile formally proclaimed independence from Spain
until 1830 civil strife
1836–39 War with Peru
1861 and 1891, wave of liberal reforms
1879–83 War of the Pacific against Peru and Bolivia
until 1927, Gen. Carlos Ibáñez del Campo ruled, president until 1931
1952 Carlos Ibáñez del Campo / 1958 Jorge Alessandri Rodríguez






Chilean Peso                     Canadian Dollar
1 CLP = 0.00198615 CAD 1 CAD = 503.487 CLP

happy feet

question: will he shake hands/flippers with us?

maybe if we bring him sardines






Gentoo Penguin, Pygoscelis papua
aquatic ,  flightless  birds  living almost exclusively in the southern hemisphere, especially in Antarctica 

first by plane

the good old 757 from Vancouver to Dallas

after check-in line-up wait-up
breathe-out squeeze-in breathe-in hold-breath
eat-up swallow-down line-up use-washroom
breathe-out squeeze-in breathe-in hold-breath
land in Dallas - aaahhh

and then 767 from Dallas to Buenos Aires

after check-in line-up wait-up
breathe-out squeeze-in breathe-in hold-breath-longer
eat-up swallow-down line-up use-washroom
breathe-out squeeze-in breathe-in hold-breath-longer
land in Buenos Aires - aaahhh


luggage allowance 23 kg per person in one bag, in two bags US30 extra;
check-in time 2-3 hours prior to departure

then by boat

there she floats

cabin: hopefully not too small
food: too good and too much
excercise: what?
view: water, water, water
does she float: long enough?
HAL commercial here

not: ours

formal nights on a cruise: There is no more stupid feeling than being on a ship dressed in your tuxedo, and outnumbered by guys in T-shirts;
unlimited Internet access for seven days at $99;
laundry offers unlimited package service for $45 per cabin;
Unlimited pressing (dry cleaning not included) $30 per cabin, and more about the ship ... here.

down South, really South

quite a few miles, actually, as far South as one can go