Time is flying by here (two months gone) and I´ve started to go through various stages of guilt associated with traveling and/or living in a foreing country. Obviously I´m not working, otherwise I´d be guilt-free. I am taking Spanish classes, but progress is slow. So this begs the question: What am I really doing with my days in Buenos Aires?
There´s a dirtly little secret in the Expat Community here, one I recently discovered at a friend´s cocktail party. I can´t think of any way to say it other than to just say it -- the tv here is SOOO good. There are at least seven channels that are dedicated to US tv and/or movies (i.e. SONY, Warner Brothers, Univeral, and TNT, to name a few). Every day you can find an old or fairly new episode of shows like the O.C., Alias, CSI (and all its spinoffs), 90210, Gillmore Girls, Mismatch, Cupid, NYPD Blue, Touched By an Angel, and many, many others. Now what´s scary are the shows that the expat community are becoming addicted to, myself inlcluded (random sampling was taken at said cockail party). I can´t say I EVER watched an episode of the Gillmore Girls before arriving in Buenos Aires. Now, two months later, I can´t tell you the last time I missed an episode. Even more sad, is that they air two different seasons at two different times each day. What does this mean? It means that I can tell you how Rory is fairing at Chilton and how Laura Lye is doing with Max. Or, if you prefer a more current update, I can tell you how Rory is doing at Yale and what, if anything, is going on with Luke and Laura Lye. I know this sounds pathetic, but once you´ve settled in here and gone out every single night for a month, you get into a routine, which includes watching American t.v. I won´t even mention the eight hour Alias mararthons they´ve been airing on the SONY channel for the last month. But alas, I´m not alone. As I mentioned, the secret is out. I have an expat friend who races home to catch episodes of Lyon´s Den, the Rob Lowe series that was cancelled before it´s first season even ended. Yikes.
Okay, so what´s my point? I have no idea, really. Maybe it´s that I feel guilty when pondering questions like: ¨How come people don´t freak out when Monica or Tess reveal themselves as Angels?¨ Or, how psyched I was to watch the baseball playoffs and World Series live on ESPN Latin America. Either way, for better of for worse, I´m finding Argentina while simultaneoulsy discovering the back episodes of the O.C. Is that so bad? I do read the subtitles....
