junior year

Last year a ton of students from my house here at Harvard took off to Argentina for a semester.  I wasn’t really sure how much they got done down there but it sounded like the best time of their lives.  Argentina is supposed to be beautiful, elegant and sophisticated, and Buenos Aires, the Paris of South America.   Everyone I know who’s ever had a chance to travel there has thoroughly enjoyed themselves.  Now I’ve finally found a great excuse to go:  Spanish courses in Argentina.  Since I’ve taken Spanish since I was in middle school, I have a demonstrated interest in the subject and a genuine appreciation for the culture.  The one thing I’m lacking, honestly, is total immersion.  I think if I got to learn some Spanish from language schools in Buenos Aires, though, I’d be setup in an environment where it would be more or less sink or swim and it would really help push me that last bit of the way towards fluency.  See, I think it would be hard to convince my parents to just let me stay a semester in Argentina, but if I mixed in some educational opportunities, it would probably be entirely possible.  I really want to look more into this concept, figure out how much work it would take and what the living expenses would be like and then give it a shot.  After college, there won’t be too many other opportunities for such spontaneous travel.