CII Teach Argentina

DeAne Frazier

Argentina Family

My experience so far here in Argentina has been amazing. I am living in Carlos Casares, a small town where everybody knows your name. It’s a lovely and welcoming place. When I first arrived in Carlos Casares many of the students went out of the way to greet me, and make me feel like a celebrity. I have only been here a little over a month, and I already feel like Carlos Casares is my home. My family is nothing but the best. My first weekend in town my family took me on a tour of the town showing me the train, the shops, the petting zoo, the race tracks, the many big parks, and the airfield where we went up in a plane! My mom Adrianna is the sweetest and most concerned mother, and reminds me so much of my own mother. Adrianna has very little English and I have very little Spanish (as of right now), but we talk all the time. We run errands together, and go to yoga as well! My sisters Fiore and Naza are the coolest people ever. Fiore is at school in La Plata, so I only see her on some weekends, but it is so much fun to hang out with her and her crazy friends. Naza and I play Spanish pictionary and watch bad soap operas. She loves the soap opera; I watch because they are funny. My brother Artu is a musician, and is studying in La Plata. When Fiore and Artu come home we go out to the discos, hang out in the center city drinking mate and playing music, or have everyone over for a big dinner. There is constant laughter at the house with me trying to learn Spanish, and Adrianna trying to learn English. I truly feel at home here, and it is going to be a sad day for me when I must leave.