EVITA!

Last Saturday night I watched the musical Evita for the 2nd time ever featuring Madonna as Eva Peron, Jonathan Pryce as Juan Peron and Antonio Banderas a the narrator Che Guevara.

It's got great music (some weirdly-placed rock too) and a neat history. The actors do a great job. I find it interesting as it's an Anglo-interpretation of an extremely influential time in Argentine politics. I remember the first time I saw it thinking: love or hate the Perons, they changed the course of history in Argentina and it's fascinating and I found Banderas' Che trying to let Eva know at the end of the film she had a chance to make changes for good and ran out of time and didn't take advantage as she was concerned about herself. Not sure if that's the moral of Eva's life but I've found passionate lovers of Eva all over Argentina, even if they are not part of the Peronista political party. (disclosure: my future in-laws are strong Personists so I don't know how many controversial comments I will make about them in the future, haha; although in all seriousness, I will try and state the facts, results, causes with less focus on the controversy or the politics to create a more truthful understanding of the country that is Argentina).

Anyway, that's it for now, I'll add another post about the film since it's full of stuff and I like it although it just sort of ends with Eva's death with little resolution...but I guess that's how Eva's life ended as well.

Here's an opening song that's a good summary of lots of the film and the sorrow at Eva's death. Thank you Senor Banderas. Enjoy.

Argentina Blog

I think it is appropriate that I keep using this blog since Argentina has obviously become a much larger part of my life than I ever expected. I think i will keep the title as Argentina! and maintain political, economical, family, travel and other related posts here for my American family and friends to read. I think that will be a suitable use and purpose to this blog. It's a pretty blog too so I don't want to lose it.

So, as some may know I am engaged and set to marry an Argentine girl in less than a month. We met on Facebook via a mutual friend whom I met when I was an intern in Buenos Aires 2 and a half years ago. It was a wonderful trip and had a greater impact on my life than I ever could imagine. I somehow knew before I went to Argentina that I was going to get assigned to Buenos Aires. It's curious though the extent of the consequences from one decision or one action. I am grateful for the opportunity to share my experiences and my life in relation to Argentina to this curious, intriguing, beautiful, challenge-filled country. I don't think my involvement will end any time soon. We will see where life takes me. Yee-haw!

Life moving on...

So, I thought I should do a little bit better of continuing. I will probably need to change the name of my title page as I'm no longer in Argentina; but maybe I'll go back someday, who knows?

I am in Finals week so I'm not sure why I'm writing on my blog but I am working on a take-home test on how to improve an area for long-term development and growth after a natural disaster. I haven't decided what I'm going to write but I have some ideas.

So I have an interest in int'l issues and found this article interest about the effects of personalities and actions many years later. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/06/opinion/06bradley.html?em
This one is about how Theodore Roosevelt's actions, which apparently warranted a Nobel Peace Prize, was one of the factors that led to Pearl Harbor occurring. It's a short article but effective in showing how one event possible led to another many years later.