Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Rosario

First of all I would like to send a shout out to my most loyal commenters on my blog, Pete and Adrea. For Andrea I will keep putting up videos and for Pete, I took a hot shower today and it felt very, very good. Yesterday I arrived in Rosario which is about 300 kilometers north west of Buenos Aires. I woke up early monday morning to be able to catch the bus in Buenos Aires. I was lucky to get to Rosario with out any problems (if you have been following Argentine news, farmers have been cutting off transit on the highways because they are mad at the government over increasing the export tarriffs). Luckily, the farmers were only stopping the grain trucks (even though the truck drivers last week launched a counter strike by stopping everyone, saying if we can´t transport, no one can use the highways). Last night I went with two mission buddies to a protest at the ¨Flag Monument¨in the center of Rosario were they were having a massive protest, everyone beating pots and pans and honking horns. I got some on video so I will put it up soon. Today we went around Rosario and looked at some of the touristy things they have hear. Rosario is on the Rio Parana and there are some pretty cool views of the river (fotos also coming soon). I´ll be here in Rosario for a couple of days and from here I will be going to either Paraguay or Brazil. My last day in Buenos Aires was spent in bed with intermintant trips to the bathroom. At first I thought it was food poisioning but I now think it was just a Flu virus that was going around. I am mostly recovered but still not 100%.

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