Story Location: Argentina
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How to Overcome the Mid-Semester Slump
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1. Admit that it’s okay to feel down. No one likes to admit it, but being abroad won’t feel like the best months of your life 100% of the time. The pressure to feel like you’re enjoying every moment makes it hard to take a step back and let yourself admit that sometimes you miss…
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How Immersing Myself in the Buenos Aires Theatre Scene Made My Abroad Experience Special
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Buenos Aires is a city overflowing with an abundance of cultural, political, and artistic expression. One of my absolute favorite things about Argentina’s capital is not only the enormous quantity of artists– performance artists, visual artists, musical artists, and more– who inhabit the city and make creation commonplace, but the sense of true appreciation for…
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Navigating My Identity as a White Woman Abroad
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Looking back on my expectations In the United States, one of the many privileges that I enjoy as a white female is the ability to blend in with the majority. When traveling, that’s not always the case. Because I have fair skin and blonde hair, in Argentina I have found that I’m often the object…
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How My Host Mom and I Almost Moved
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Growing up, I moved with my parents twice across the country, and we often reflect on the moving experience as a stressful but exciting time. For the first two months of my semester abroad in Buenos Aires, Argentina, a real estate agent weekly showed the apartment I shared with my host mother to potential buyers,…
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Argentine Patagonia on a Student Budget
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I traveled around Argentine Patagonia in February, alone, before my Argentine Universities Program started and trust me, I know all the excuses not to go: “It’s too expensive,” “It’s too far from my program’s location,” “There’s not enough time to see everything.” But as someone who took the time to plan out a trip, I can assure…
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How Living in a Spanish Speaking World Changed My Identity
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Figuring out who you are in a different language is not an easy task. While it may seem that achieving a certain degree of fluency in a language will facilitate the ability to express yourself as you do in your mother-tongue, studying abroad has shown me it is a process much more complex, challenging, frustrating,…
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An Insider Guide to Transportation in Buenos Aires
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I was already running late, having slept through my alarm, and had about 25 minutes to get to class. Back on my home university’s campus this wouldn’t have been a problem. In the U.S. I attend a small college and every class is within reasonable walking distance. In contrast, I have found that attending class…
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How I Learned to Love Hating Life in the Big City
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I grew up picturing the big city bright and tall in my mind. It was a dreamscape of endless possibilities and exotic people. I grew up in a small rural town in the middle of nowhere, at the base of a mountain range the size of a small state. In Hailey, there were four stoplights…
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Exploring Buenos Aires through Running
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Exploring Buenos Aires through Running From a young age, I have always been involved in athletics and was a two-year DIII athlete at my college. Hence, continuing to run while in Buenos Aires, Argentina was a given.During my time in Buenos Aires, I enrolled in a half-marathon and a 15k (9.32 mi) both for the…
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On Nightlife, Drag, and Identity Expression in Buenos Aires
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On Nightlife It was around 3 AM on a Saturday morning in late March, and I was celebrating a friend’s birthday at Fiesta Whipin Almagro, Buenos Aires. I was dancing mindlessly on the club’s second floor when I noticed people stepping back to create a circle. In the center, a tall figure was swaying to the…
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