A busy day -- dropped the kids off (Jonah and Aviva first, and then tea and medialunes with Ruthie before dropping her off) and then headed downtown (Microcentro) to look over a Spanish language school for Eve and myself. I thought I was done with tests, but no -- we had to sit down and take a pretest to see where they would place us. Yikes. Even Eve had to guess at some of the answers! But we liked the school a lot (recommended by Fulbright and by my colleague Gerry McFarland, whom they remembered fondly), so we'll both start on Monday -- me in an intensive, four-hours-a-day course, and Eve doing a three-day-a week "regular course.
We then picked up my first paycheck from Fulbright and went to cash it at the nearby Citibank. They wouldn't do it because I only had a copy of my passport (and even though I had my license and a million other forms of identification). Arghhh.
Back home to get my passport and walk over to a branch of Citibank in Palermo. I proudly walk up with the appropriate documents and....am told that this check can only be cashed at that particular Citibank location. Unbelievable. So, this will have to wait until Tuesday -- Monday is a national holiday for the El Libertador, Jose de San Martin -- kind of like President's Day, although he was a soldier who helped gain independence from Spain, not a president.
Lunch with the kids (again at Tonno, a local favorite) and then over to the Jumbo and supplies for Shabbat dinner and regular staples (including the requisite $7 AR ($1.80USD) bottle of Malbec. Now that's my kind of price for wine).
Time to get Ruthie, and then Jonah (pronounced Zhonah here) and Aviva (pronounced Abiba). Jonah's deskmate Ernesto is quickly becoming his friend -- Jonah wants to invite him over...when he can speak a little more Spanish.
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