It's all happening here

Well thank god for that, Argentina have just won their second round match and we can all breathe a sigh of relief. I am not joking when I say that the country closes down when Argentina are on the pitch. The shops shut, the buses are empty, the streets are deserted, it is truly like living in a ghost town (and a big one at that). If Argentina had lost, the whole country would have been suicidal and living here would have been very difficult but, thankfully, they won. Now we just have England to deal with - if they lose tomorrow god help the lot of us, Argentines are very good at gloating!

Other news, we've been given a 5% pay increase (somewhat short of the 20-30% requested) accompanied by a very snidey letter telling us we should be thankful that the company is so good to us - way to build loyalty!

Today L and I booked our coach tickets. We're going to Salta which is a 22 hour (yes twenty two hours) bus ride but we paid the extra 10 pesos for seats which fully recline. The ticket includes dinner and lunch but I'll be taking plenty of water and fruit, a couple of good books to read and my minidisk player. Salta is right in the top north-west corner of Argentina in the foothills of the Andes and is supposed to have vineyards and great architecture - anything to get out of the city. We travel straight there on 24th July and will probably break our journey back over a couple of days.

Tomorrow is a busy day, breakfast with L, watching England at B's with the other teachers then onto the Gaucho market. I went there last week and I'm going back again so I'll tell you more about it tomorrow.