Córdoba, the Oviedo of Argentina

I should preface this with the following statement. I went to Oviedo, Spain for a month last summer and I loved it. I shall list off some similarities I noticed between Córdoba, Argentina and Oviedo, Spain.

The club we went to was small and you could actually dance, and it rocked. Just like Oviedo.
You can walk everywhere if need be, or you can take a taxi when in a rush. Just like Oviedo.
Córdoba is full of college students. Just like Oviedo.
The center of town was a big Cathedral where everyone met. Just like Oviedo.
I loved it there. Just like Oviedo.

I wonder if I took any pictures that capture it. I will see.

Argentina and Me

I got off the plane, I got on the plane. The brief eternity in the middle was enjoyable

These two first months have gone by fast, in the sense that they are over and I am now in the present. Everything seems fast after its over. And I still have four more long yet brief weeks left. If you know what I mean.

Here's the deal. I'm in Buenos Aires and I am working at a pointless internship and taking pointless classes. But the most important part of what I just said is that I am in Buenos Aires. Just being away gives a whole new perspective and way of life. It's something I am finding very hard to express. When someone asks me what I did here and what my favorite part was. What do I say? Being there?

I got a sense of what life is like in another place. And I have traveled places before, lots of places really and nothing has been as different as this. Living for three months in a giant south american city has been eye opening really. I have found my passion for planet earth and found motivation to do something. I can understand another way of life and I also really think I am supposed to do something important. I couldn't have asked for anything better.

However, I will inevitably get the question, "What was your favorite part?"
I will have to come up with a response by the end of this trip.

I also say "I" a lot.

It's been 11 days

You may have heard by now, I am Greenpeace Campus Coordinator at Mizzou for Climate Change. I started by contacting pre-existing groups on campus, namely Sustain Mizzou, to offer a partnership. Also I predict I could use some help from them getting Greenpeace a foothold on campus. Especially as far as registering with ORG and stuff. I don't even know if I'm supposed to do that.

Watchtvsitcoms is amazing. I am currently watching Quantum of Solace. Sure I have to load it for 20 minutes to watch 5, and sure it sometimes just stops loading, but it is still free movies and tv shows. That's all I need. That and a more varied diet.

My pee smells funny. All these empanadas and ham and cheese medialunas are creating a stench in my system. Also I haven't been exercising as much. An overall health breakdown, something that doesn't concern me too much. I'm still young and fit.

In conclusion. I am glad I will be doing things next semester. Other possible hobbies might include LOST club, boardgames club, and continuing volleyball (?). I have become a green-environment-efficient-energy nut, and sorry if I begin informing the whole world all about it. They just gots to know.

Note to self: Next time I want to talk about my Argentina experience in specific a little more.

I say for you be wrong with making dirty everywhere

I wish I was better at sentences that had terrible grammar, yet made sense. And also made my belly bounce with laughter.

The rumors are true, I applied to be a Greenpeace organizer for Mizzou as we do not have one. I don't know how their application process works exactly. It seemed very informal and almost as if no one would ever actually look at it. And I am also very under qualified. Honestly. On the other hand I would be pretty good at it, I really don't do anything else.

I watched some interesting videos on TED yesterday. My faves include the biosphere 2, mindboggling science, and global priorities. All very future-science-world problems oriented. In biosphere 2, Jane Poynter says that concrete absorbed a crap ton of their oxygen in the biosphere and my immediate reaction was, concrete is the devil. But it probably doesn't work how I'm imagining it does.

Che and a radio show

The empanadas de carne from the place by Lo's are indeed fantastic. And I skipped work today. I'm such a bad ass. (He was not.)

Sometimes I get the Arrested Development narrator in my head.

I just watched Motorcycle Diaries too. I liked it. I can relate to it a lot right now. Because it is essentially about how this road trip made Ernesto Guevara into Che. Simply being outside of your own little world does give you so much more to take in. And it does change you.

I am currently listening to the Zeitgeist radio show. And I am somewhat frustrated with Jacque, the Venus Project founder. I like some but not all of his ideas. And his contradictions are making me question the validity of this idea. He has said things like people will not have opinions, they will have facts. But then later he said that if you disagree with someone then you have the tools to solve that problem. If there are no opinions, there are no disagreements. Hm?

"You are only as free as your purchasing power allows you to be."
-I did like that quote.

The transition involves a movie, it sounds fun. There is a lot of infrastructure work going into this movement at the moment, and I realize I can't truly contribute to it directly. But I can work on myself. And maybe that will rub off onto others. I don't know. So that means going back to working on my own concepts. It's difficult to accept a world in which people are just going to be good because they were raised to be good.

What will happen to our current culture, our current media. Put it all in museums and not show it to our children? Probably a good idea. That is very far into the future. As have been all of my thoughts now. I wonder how we apply this way of thinking to our world now? Can we? Do I have to just go along with everything now and pretend it's all good until it fails? I wonder.

I got shit to do though. Bye.