Studying at the library...

Both Klara and I have a tango paper to write. It is supposed to be about 7-10 pages long and of course, in Spanish. I chose to write it about the Nordic tango and its influence on the Nordic cultures. A little bit of Evert Taube, Heino Grön, and maybe a paragraph or two about the Ice Hotel. (Very irrelevant, but I barely know 7 pages of Spanish words so I have to stretch!) One of the main reasons I chose this topic is that I know, without a doubt, more than the teacher about the nordic music styles, and should it be necessary, I can always BS. Smart, huh?

I found some cool (no pun intended) "Tango Ice Hotel" pictures:




To research we decided to go to the "la Biblioteca Nacional de Buenos Aires", or as I call it "The really, really, really ugly mushroom". On the bus to the la biblioteca we met J.B. or "jota-be" as he calls himself in Spanish. He lives close to the library so he had already been there to try and find books. He warned us that it was just like everywhere else in Argentina: chaos.

To start off with, neither one of us was really looking forward to going there and studying. Klara wanted to copy her essay from somewhere off the internet, and I wanted to see if I could find another Mafalda comic to read. So when the bus driver suddenly decided to stop the bus at Plaza Italia instead of continuing on his normal route (why?) we took it as a sign from God that we didn't have to go to the library. God works in mysterious ways.

Instead, we bought half a kilo of strawberries and some icecream and went to Klara's place's roof. On the way I managed to buy 2 new Mafalda books. Haha... maybe I can find some info about tango in them.