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Well, this is my test post for my new blog. After I chose blogger.com from the many free blogging options out there, setting this up was incredibly easy. I decided to name my blog 'La noche boca arriba,' after a short story by famous Argentine author Julio Cortazar that we read in my Spanish class last semester. The title translates roughly as 'The Night Face Up,' and the story is a bizarre, surreal blending of dreams and reality, past and present. The main character always ends up 'boca arriba' -- lying on his back looking up -- be it on an operating table or on a sacrificial altar of ancient Aztecs, trying to figure out some aspect of his life. Cortazar is truly a fascinating writer, and I hope to read some more of his works in a class in Argentina. Read an English translation of 'La noche boca arriba' here.'La noche boca arriba' begins with a man's motorcycle accident and subsequent hospitalization. When he is drugged for an operation, we enter his dream world, which becomes a parallel storyline. In the fantasy realm he is not a man of the 20th century, but part of the 'moteca' tribe (a play in Spanish on the word for motorcycle) who is being.
Also of note, we got our housing notifications from the program director last week. We were only given the name of the head of household and the address. I've been using GoogleEarth to check out my new neighborhood, and I'll be living in a fairly central, advantageous location. I also called my host mother on Saturday, but that ended up being somewhat of a disaster, as neither of us could understand each other. She kept repeating 'You have to call the business' in English and seemed quite annoyed that I had called. I thought my Spanish was clear enough, but I guess not. She didn't even answer my questions about her name, if she had kids living with her, etc. Oh well, I guess you shouldn't judge someone by a one minute international phone call in your second language!La Noche Boca Arriba English
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A little less than a month and I'll be in Argentina! Thanks for reading :)
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- La noche boca arriba (part 1) Thursday, May 8, 2008 at 23:49 A translation of the first part of a famous story ('The night face up') by this Argentine writer.
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- L A NOCHE BOCA ARRIBA Halfway down the long hotel vestibule, he thought that probably hewas going to be late, and hurried on into the street to get out hismotorcycle from the corner where the next-door superintendent let himkeep it. On the jewelry store at the corner he read that it was ten to nine;he had time to spare.
- LA NOCHE BOCA ARRIBA And in certain epochs they would go to hunt enemies; They called this the war of flowers. La noche boca arriba (part 1) Thursday, May 8, 2008 at 23:49 A trans.