Remainders and Beginnings

I made it to Buenos Aires yesterday without a hitch.  I flew through Lima and the whole ordeal took about 10 hours with layovers and travel time.  Buenos Aires is really far away!!  So far, things are great and I am settling into my new apartment and neighborhood and trying to remember how to cook for myself again (since three meals a day for the last 2 months have either been provided or were eaten at a restaurant)... but so far, this city is great... a lot like New York, or as I read somewhere "a crumbling Paris."

I'm sure to have more interesting things to relay about it soon, but before then I wanted to send you all this link.  There was this guy in Cuenca, Daniel from Australia, who came to Ecuador on a bet that he could learn Spanish fluently in like 3 weeks.  Obviously, I thought that was ridiculous and told him so... and then he made me say it on camera and the video is now on YouTube.  The thing is that this guy works teaching memory techniques to highschool and college kids... so he was going to use his memorization tactics to learn a foreign language.  This video will probably be used in some infomercial months from now when Daniel is speaking fluent Spanish, but whatever!  Enjoy:

http://youtube.com/watch ?v=xSmC7tEEi6Y