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UPDATE: I found my passport - and I forgot to mention that I got a haircut…a really, really short haircut…A very easy-going week, indeed. Today is Thursday and I have (possibly) lost my passport and found out that I owe a whole bunch of money to the U.S. government (April 15!!) in the past two days. When you couple both of these facts with the discouraging information I have learned about importing and exporting from Arg. you can understand why I am ready to drink a beer and go to bed (and it is only 12:30 in the afternoon!). I do not want to give the impression that I am not loving life here - the exact opposite is true. Maybe…I just enjoy being in a bubble for a little while and want to make it last a bit longer. I don´t have much to report in terms of specific things I have been doing other than tango class on Monday, nightly meetings with Jose in his FIAMBERIA/Kiosco, basketball practice on Monday, soccer on Tuesday with the other international kids…I am developing a bit of a weekly routine in that I go to tango class on M-W, basketball practice M-Th, soccer with the internationals on T-Th, and volleyball on T-Th. It´s great to get some exercise and meet some new Argentinians (as I don´t have much contact with them in the school b-c all of my classes are with other internationals).On the business front, I have spoken with my dad and with Jose about needing to make a decision on whether I am going to stay here or not. If I am going to stay, then I need to go full-steam ahead with the importing-exporting of1) importing notebook computers2) exporting wine3) whatever else will fill a need here or in the U.S. (i.e. soybeans, gold, etc.)I believe I am going to stay for a couple of reasons…first, I want to master spanish and it has been a dream of mine to live in a foreign country for a while (i.e. for longer than 5 months) - to make a life for myself someplace new. As for post-graduation plans, those of you who know me know that I have kept my options open until now and that I loathe the idea of joining the 9-5 workforce. I love business and I know that I enjoy the challenge of starting a new one. Every business book I have read advises you to look for a mentor in the field you want to enter and I feel like I have found one in Jose. Extremely knowledgable and helpful, he is the first person relatively close to me in age that I have met who has done what I want to do and is willing to help me (i.e. start a business in a different country - in his case, Bolivia with the importation of DirectTV). Strangest of all, he wants to partner with me in the various endeavours I am sure to enter. All of the ingredients are here - I just need to put them in the oven and get cooking…jejeje!

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