Posts Tagged with "alex pollack"

Good-bye, Argentina

Thursday, January 14, 2010

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Good-bye, Argentina

Today’s post is the last in the five part series on Argentina by Alex Pollack. For more of Alex’s writing be sure to check out his personal website. Thanks again Alex for your great insights! Saturday.  The sun falls in watercolors over the mountains, mountains I see only in shadows through the tint of airport [...]

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9 Things to Know Before You Visit Buenos Aires

Thursday, January 7, 2010

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9 Things to Know Before You Visit Buenos Aires

This is the fourth installment of Alex Pollack’s experiences in Argentina. As he is now in his last week of language learning in Buenos Aires, he offers us a list of things he wishes he had known. Read parts one, two and three. Blogger Jeff Barry calls Buenos Aires the “City of Faded Elegance.”  I [...]

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Who’s Running Away?: A Buenos Aires Birthday

Thursday, December 31, 2009

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Who’s Running Away?: A Buenos Aires Birthday

This is part three of Alex Pollack’s adventures in Argentina (my favorite installment so far). Be sure to check out parts one and two. It’s a black-blue December night and I’m sitting on a wide flanked step on the patio stairway of Milion, an elegant-spired mansion turned cocktail bar with French doors opening to a [...]

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Buenos Aires: Day One

Thursday, December 24, 2009

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Buenos Aires: Day One

Today we have part two of Alex Pollacks adventures studying Spanish in Argentina. Click here to learn about Alex and read part one of his story. “I’ll be back after nine,” my host Alejandro said, smiling, a man on the go, tall and tan and fit with a want-to-play-futbol? twinkle to his eyes.  We were [...]

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Argentina, Te Quiero

Thursday, December 17, 2009

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Argentina, Te Quiero

One of the first things I did when I began this blog is set up an interview with Alex Pollack, a college friend of mine and an awesome writer. Like me, Alex decided to go abroad after graduation (to teach in Korea), and like me, he caught the travel bug. This month, he’s taking a [...]

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