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Entries from April 2009

My Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-04-18

April 18th, 2009 · 3 Comments

Since I’ve been spending a lot of time on Twitter recently, I decided to post a weekly summary of my tweets to my Discover Buenos Aires blog as well. (Ok, I’m not actually posting these all. I’m using the Twitter Tools plugin for WordPress to do it.)  Don’t worry though, I’m still going to be [...]

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Tags: Randomness

Dengue Fever Now in Buenos Aires Proper

April 16th, 2009 · 4 Comments

The U.S. Embassy has just issued a follow-up alert to their previous alert about the spread of dengue fever in Argentina. While previous reports had been limited to the north of the country, there are now at least 107 confirmed cases in Buenos Aires. While the government attributes those cases to people who have traveled [...]

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Expat Tax Benefits

April 15th, 2009 · 2 Comments

Seeing as how today is April 15th (the day taxes are due in the United States), I thought it would be fitting to finally finish the post I had been working on regarding some of the tax benefits to being an expat. When I decided to move to Buenos Aires last year, I wasn’t aware [...]

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Tags: Living · Planning

Learning Spanish III

April 15th, 2009 · 9 Comments

I quickly realized that spending two months in Brazil, while amazing, definitely hurt my Spanish language skills.  Add to that the additional time I spent in the States for Christmas, and I now find myself playing catch-up just to get back to the point I was at in December. It’s amazing how little time it [...]

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Tags: Living