From July 18th until sometime in December that I could look up right now but don't really want to, I will be living and studying in Buenos Aires, Argentina (pronounce that with an 'h' sound or you lose), which is a really big city in a country that's really far away. As it seems like what people do when they go really far away, I'm making a blog to keep people updated on how overwhelmed I am about being in a place where I have to speak Spanish only Spanish and never English.
Let me just say I know embarrassingly little about this place (thanks Wake County Public School System for teaching me everything you know). Luckily, the only time this could possibly become an issue when I'm living there is when I'm trying to decide what to name my blog. After failing to come up with a coherent variation on "The Bob Loblaw Law Blog" that had anything to do with my pending studies abroad, I shuffled through the Wikipedia in my brain and realized I know approximately three things about Buenos Aires/Argentina*: (1) La Guerra Sucia happened there (this was the state-sponsored "dirty war" in the late 70s/early 80s where as many as 30,000 civilians were killed or disappeared), (2) Buenos Aires is sometimes called "the Paris of South America," and (3) beef consumption in Argentina is the highest in the world. As it would be in bad taste to name my blog after a massacre, or to overshadow Buenos Aires with Europe by defining it in terms of a French city, I chose "¿Dónde Está El Beef?" because it was in better taste (haha get it? get it?). Yes, I'm aware that by using a Wendy's slogan (OH HEY, GLYNNIS!) I'm defining it in Merican terms, but I guess that's what American Cultural Imperialism (OH HEY, DREW!) is all about.
Also, to give credit where credit is due, none of this decision-making process happened; I think the good Sir John Tyler Mills suggested the title to me a few weeks ago or something.
Also, also, it's extremely likely that upon arriving in Buenos Aires, I will be told by someone that understands political correctness better than me that the title of my blog is insulting and I should never have even come to Good Airs, Arhentina if that's the way I'm going to represent my university/culture/country/personal brand, whereupon I will change the title.
Anyways, check back at this Uniform Resource Locator in the next few [unit of time]s because I'll probably have at least one or two more posts on here before I leave.
* I promise I'll learn more before I go, ya'll!
