Interlude one: Standing in someone else's shoes.

Out here, in a bid to try and get my spanish up slightly to office standard (the next blog will be about the workplace), I am watching the news in Spanish. As many of you will know, the population of America will soon take to the polls in what admittedly is quite a big worldwide event. Of course, I am used to the viewpoint of the UK Press - but here, it's all different. They call it Voto Latino 12 - i.e. where the American Hispanics will cast their vote. Not that it even makes that big a difference to Argentina (and i will write a piece about what is happening to their economy at a later date; think Cuba but in reverse - it's quite bizzare!) but even so it's always the leading story

Nevertheless, that got me thinking. Often it's hard to see a situation from someone elses point of view - in this case, all of the issues i'm used to hearing so much about are marginalised and more specific foreign policy (including immigration) is discussed in much greater detail. A lesson worth learning...

In other news, a couple of nights back i had my first experience of Argentina on an international football match day. The country basically stops and watches - even if only against chile. But then again, us brits would probably do the same if we had Messi up front. And having listened to the commentary of England vs Poland, I can conclude that we are closer to a cardboard cut out of the little man.

Ho Hum.