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Rich’s Posts

Here’s the newest member of the team. She was born Friday afternoon, weighing 8 lbs. 11 oz.

“Wow!!!” That’s a rather nice thing to hear as someone comes into your house for the first time, right?  Jil and I have always made something of a conscience effort to try and make our house warm and inviting to our guests. We love having people over, and want everyone to feel as [...]

A couple weeks ago I was talking with a guy that owns and runs a store down the street. I’ve been in there quite a few times to talk with him, even having mate with him a couple of times. This particular day, he seemed sort of down (at least to the extent [...]

So we’ve been here for close to a month now. And there are still moments where it all seems completely surreal to actually be here, living in Argentina (like the other night when I for some inexplicable reason felt this sudden urge to watch the water drain “backwards”, like it was a completely new [...]

This week was a bit of a hard one for the Elledge family - emotionally, physically, and spanish-ly.  All of it directly related to this …

On Tuesday morning, as we were getting ready to head out for school, Emerson fell in our driveway and fractured her tibia.  She has to wear this cast for 2 [...]

Next week we start our final trimester of language school. We’ll sort of be like the seniors on campus, or something like that. The ones that all of the new students look at and (oh so utterly mistakenly) think “If I could just speak Spanish like THEY do, then I’d be set.” [...]

This trimester our grammar class has been covering something called the “subjunctive mood”. Sounds pretty scary, huh, like the type of thing that would give your average student nightmares. Our school has an infamous 15 RULES TO UNDERSTANDING SUBJUNCTIVE (I was really tempted to record an MP3 and insert here (like I even [...]

Today was a pretty normal and very relaxing day. Nothing in any way strange or culturally stressful happened today (yippee!). So, I thought it’d be a good day to make a list of “things I did today that I probably wouldn’t have done if we lived in the U.S.” Enjoy.
- watched Saturday morning [...]

Leading up to and since returning from our short trip to California last week, I’ve been insanely busy, going pretty much non-stop. And since I really need to get to studying and don’t have a lot of time to put together a thoughtful, meaningful post right now, let me just post something that’s quick [...]

A few weeks after we moved here, I remember feeling very frustrated one night with the food we were eating (which wasn’t anything that Jil had made, by the way). It wasn’t that the food was really bad or anything, it was just that it was different. And even though I’d even tried [...]