I have officially met the AFS Matching Challange cap of $500 and am writing to offer yet another huge thanks to all of those who have donated to my fundraising goal of one thousand dollars through this blog! I am truly grateful! All of those who support me have helped me cut my remaining tuition nearly in half! Of the nearly seven thousand dollar program I am planning on attending though AFS, scholarships and your donations have reduced my remaining tuition to just over two thousand dollars! This is a gigantic accomplishment, but I obviously have quite a bit further to go yet! Please remember to keep reposting the URL to this blog on your Facebook and Twitter accounts, as well as sending it through the great expanses of cyberspace by E-mailing it to your friends too! Just remember, without your help, I could never do this, I couldn't have even have gotten this far! Thank you so much!
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AFS sent me the link to a wonderful website that explains a bit of the stereotypical Argentine culture and I have learned a number of things that I would like to share with all of the readers of my blog as well:
A typical Argentinean diet consists largely of beef. Argentines have eaten more beef per capita than any other culture.
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| Mate, a common herbal tea drink in Argentina |
In some regions of Argentina, friends and relatives share a round of an herbal tea drink called mate together.
Buenos Aries, the capitol of Argentina is two hours ahead of my time zone.
The sun centered in the middle most band of the Argentine flag is an Incan Symbol called The Sun of May. It has thirty two rays.
The official name of Argentina is República Argentina.
Urban families generally have two children on average, but rural families tend to be larger. All families have two family names, one from the mother's side and one from the father's.
To order coffee, a very common drink, from a distant server, a common hand gesture is a fist with a thumb and index finger held in the air.
The last meal of the day is typically around nine o'clock at night.
Nearly 92% of Argentines are Catholic.
The population of Argentina is about 41.34 million.
The beso beso greeting (as in Spain), is common, where a friend or relative will greet another with an informal "kiss" on each cheek.
Buenos Aries has a slightly different dialect than the rest of Argentina itself!
And lastly, for any Spanish speakers out there...
In Argentina, the second person word for you (tú), is not used! Instead, Argentines use the word vos.
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