John:
Well thanks for comments everyone, it's really good to hear from you. And thanks for the congratulations... we are now professional teachers (yikes).

It's Saturday morning and we are in a modern (almost Starbucksian) coffee place with wifi. We have taken a concious decision to not accept any work of Fridays for the moment, not until we're more au fait with the whole lesson planning and preparation thing. So yesterday we went up to see an apartment in a barrio called Villa Crespo, which is really quiet but close to the incredibly hip barrio called Palermo Viejo. I had a call last night and got some work teaching a group of TV production assistants just around the corner so I'm hoping to get the skinny on the places to go.

Then last night we wandered out to go the the theatre and see a Jazz thing called BA Blues. The start time in the paper said 2400, so we wandered to Avenida Corrientes which was like Shaftesbury Avenuue crossed with Oxford Street. At 11:30pm most of the bars, cafes and bookshops (of which there were many) were all open. Mind you, we left the name of the theatre in the apartment and when we got to the right block there was no indication of which theatre had the gig so we just had a beer (Liz had wine) and strolled back. By that time the Cartoneros (who go through the rubbish and pull out anything they can get money for, for recycling) had been around and the pavements were strewn with what they didn't take.
  ¶ 1:48 PM