I'm Going Home, Come Read About It

In case you're somehow not already aware, I'm scheduled to fly out of Córdoba June 30th and arrive in Portland sometime around noon the 1st of July. This is very, very soon, so I guess this is my last post. Since no ridiculous adventures that I can tell the Rotary about are happening, I've decided to use it talking about the kind of stuff I really should have been talking about in my first couple of posts.

The city I'm stationed in is called Río Cuarto. It has between 150,000 and 200,000 inhabitants, and was originally a fort built to protect Córdoba city from the native inhabitants of the south of what is now Argentina. Its economy revolves mostly around its own infrastructure and the exportation of corn and soy grown in the surrounding area. There's nothing particularly remarkable about it; it's a small city in rural Argentina. But it's relatively safe, the people are very friendly, and they get few enough foreigners that being from another continent makes you instantly interesting. Some pictures of the city:

I've already told you guys about my family, but here's my house.

Either it's legitimately enormous (by U.S. standards), or I've forgotten how big our houses are. Either way, it is very big by Argentine standards. That little upstairs space is only one room, but it's the coolest room in the whole house because almost all of the walls are windows, and it has easy access to the roof/balcony area. Pedro sleeps up there.

I leave very early tomorrow morning for Córdoba city in the first leg of my journey home. Thanks to everyone who's read all of these, I hope you've enjoyed them.