Welcome to Spring! We celebrated the Day of the Student on the 21st which happens to be the first day of Spring here September 21st. It is weird celebrating spring wiht my Birthday still 6 months away since the seasons flip flop here below the equator. I am really looking forward to this season in Argentina; please keep our movement in your prayers as we go through a time of growth and change as one STINT team leaves and another comes in. On another note right now I am taking Castashana( Argetine Spanish) 5 days a week for 4 hours a day. The spanish down here is highly influenced by the huge Italian population that lives here, over 50% of the people here are Italian. A huge praise is my awesome neighborhood called caballito which means small horse, it gets its name from the fact that around 1860-1920 it was an area right outside of town for the horses to rest. It is in the larger part of the city called Capital Federal( the Manhatten of BA). Another awesome praise is all the food, I can drink water from the tap and eat anything without getting sick. There is an awesome resteraunt called El Misquito across the block from our apartment, great steaks for right at $10 American. There are also three good fruit/vegetable stands within in 2 or 3 blocks of us. Also another huge praise is that I will be on the Economics college of University of Buenos Aires, visted for the first tiem tonight more details to come. On a not as fun note I am still lacking some important things, I am still with out a cell phone but should be getting one on Thursday, we still need a fridge which was put on hold since the 1 year old daughter of our campus director got sick and had to be put in the hospital(she got out today praise the Lord) please keep them in your prayers. Also our internet should be here this weekend and so more blogpost and skype dates will be coming! Please keep me my roomate John Mark the team and me in your prayers.

Shmando
aka Ben Anderson