Mendoza

"No se puede multiplicar la riqueza dividiéndola" Dr. Adrian Rogers, 1931

We arrived in Mendoza, a city of ~1mn people and known for its wine (70% of country´s productin) and olive oil. The city has a lot of squares and wide avenues, mostly due to the rebuilding of the city that happen after the devastating earthquake of 1861.

In Argentina the exchange of money is made officially or in “la calle a traves de arbolitos”. We chose the second option, which gave us 30% more pesos..

In Mendoza we stayed at a friend´s house, Ale. We stayed in a typical argentinean family where most of the relatives stay together untill or even after the sons and daughters get married. This has made our experience even more enriching as the house was always full of people coming and going.

Thanks to the new government´s subsidies lots of people have the chance to continue the studies (in Argentina, the University is 100% free and students can apply for other subsidies to buy books or other) and seek for a better future in Argentina. On the other hand, the number of children has incresead a lot since the family receives the subsidy per child. Here we were told that the governement has recently increase this subsidy 30% and that families are looking to get pregnant (they receive 60 USD monthly per child).

Alejandro together with our other friends from Reñaca and his family prepared the Argentinean asado. We were amazed with variety and price of the meat in the supermarket (Wall-Mart). The asado was prepared with wood and not coal as we are used to, and the meat uhh chi chi chi, really tasty.

A very special thank to the this lovely family who hosted us for 2 days. We could not have stayed in a better place.

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