As many may have seen in my various posts before, I have a 16 year-old sister-in-law that lives with my wife and I and goes to school here.
She's extremely bright, highly imaginative, and is an all-around nice person.
She is immersed in Argentine culture, which is a good thing to an extent (no matter what I may write about it at times). Particularly given where she's come from - two room school with dirt floors, "grammar" school in one room, the older kids in another, many kids going to school barefoot with ragged clothes. Teachers telling the kids mermaids are real and Mars has an atmosphere with flora and fauna (yeah, really!).
She's learned a lot about life and the outside word in her last three years here.
I'd like her to get more experience of other cultures as well. She'll almost certainly be going to college here in Buenos Aires when she graduates collegio in two years, but I want to encourage her to be able to study abroad at some point as well.
Before she gets to that point, I'd like her to have more knowledge about people from other cultures. Unfortunately, none of my expat friends have any kids.
I'm looking for something that goes on among expats that mixes kids of her relative age.
She never had an English class in her life until she came here, but after three years of school here, she and I can carry on simple conversations in English. My first idea was a get-together where people practice speaking other languages. I've seen a post about something like that somewhere before, but couldn't find it again; however, I seem to recall that it was targeted more toward adults anyway.
I don't know how many expats here have kids her age, how many of those kids speak some Spanish as well to help out. In fact, I just don't know enough about any of that to know if there's even a possibility of her mixing with an expat group of teenagers here.
Any one have any ideas or suggestions?
She's extremely bright, highly imaginative, and is an all-around nice person.
She is immersed in Argentine culture, which is a good thing to an extent (no matter what I may write about it at times). Particularly given where she's come from - two room school with dirt floors, "grammar" school in one room, the older kids in another, many kids going to school barefoot with ragged clothes. Teachers telling the kids mermaids are real and Mars has an atmosphere with flora and fauna (yeah, really!).
She's learned a lot about life and the outside word in her last three years here.
I'd like her to get more experience of other cultures as well. She'll almost certainly be going to college here in Buenos Aires when she graduates collegio in two years, but I want to encourage her to be able to study abroad at some point as well.
Before she gets to that point, I'd like her to have more knowledge about people from other cultures. Unfortunately, none of my expat friends have any kids.
I'm looking for something that goes on among expats that mixes kids of her relative age.
She never had an English class in her life until she came here, but after three years of school here, she and I can carry on simple conversations in English. My first idea was a get-together where people practice speaking other languages. I've seen a post about something like that somewhere before, but couldn't find it again; however, I seem to recall that it was targeted more toward adults anyway.
I don't know how many expats here have kids her age, how many of those kids speak some Spanish as well to help out. In fact, I just don't know enough about any of that to know if there's even a possibility of her mixing with an expat group of teenagers here.
Any one have any ideas or suggestions?
