Sitting in an airport waiting for my flight to board. Ain't technology awesome. No need to waste a minute. One can work all the time if one chooses. Or one can chat with friends.
I want to add something. Argentina friends tell me NO ONE is your friend most of the time. They all act sweet but they are not and if you are friends with someone for three years and you see nothing to betray that it is not real then maybe . . . maybe . . . you can count them as a friend. When I couldn't get my internet back, I could not get my landlady to help me and it was all in her name. One day she came by and said she was going to help me and I started to cry. It was really just pure frustration and I told her it is too late now, No tengo prisa - I am not in a hurry. When she saw the tears she got upset, went out the door and was back within an hour with a man to fix the problem (the problem was in the building, not Fibertel). Within another hour it was fixed and she called Fibertel for me.
My Argentina friend (the one who says he is leaving over the Clarin and other issues)said don't think that she cares. If she cared she would have done it a lot sooner. You made her feel uncomfortable when she saw the tears and they do not like to be uncomfortable. He had been trying for a long time to convince me I had to "yell" as he said.. You can't get anything done in Argentina until you yell. But then he said the tears would do the same thing, make her uncomfortable.
I asked him if he had a theory about what has made Argentina this way. He said he thinks they have been through so much that they have blocked out the idea of real friendship as a protection mechanism. If they don't really care, they don't feel a much pain. I'd be interested in input from other native Argentininians on this if anyone has any.
I want to add something. Argentina friends tell me NO ONE is your friend most of the time. They all act sweet but they are not and if you are friends with someone for three years and you see nothing to betray that it is not real then maybe . . . maybe . . . you can count them as a friend. When I couldn't get my internet back, I could not get my landlady to help me and it was all in her name. One day she came by and said she was going to help me and I started to cry. It was really just pure frustration and I told her it is too late now, No tengo prisa - I am not in a hurry. When she saw the tears she got upset, went out the door and was back within an hour with a man to fix the problem (the problem was in the building, not Fibertel). Within another hour it was fixed and she called Fibertel for me.
My Argentina friend (the one who says he is leaving over the Clarin and other issues)said don't think that she cares. If she cared she would have done it a lot sooner. You made her feel uncomfortable when she saw the tears and they do not like to be uncomfortable. He had been trying for a long time to convince me I had to "yell" as he said.. You can't get anything done in Argentina until you yell. But then he said the tears would do the same thing, make her uncomfortable.
I asked him if he had a theory about what has made Argentina this way. He said he thinks they have been through so much that they have blocked out the idea of real friendship as a protection mechanism. If they don't really care, they don't feel a much pain. I'd be interested in input from other native Argentininians on this if anyone has any.
