GOOD AIRS?????

Hi Anne and everyone there,

Do you know the translation of the word “Buenos Aires”? It’s “Good Airs” (literally). But since Thursday we’ve been breathing smoke as a consequence of the fires on the grassland outside the city. Most of the fires come from that lovely place I told you in my last blog “Parana River Delta”.
Nobody knows why the authorities didn’t act immediately. Apparently, the fires on the grassland are very common in order to allow the farmers to clear the grass to feed the cattle. But something went wrong and now it’s difficult to put out the fire (68.000 hectares). We have to wait until Wednesday because it is expected to rain and change the wind direction.
The smoke contains high levels of carbon monoxide which causes sore throat and eyes. It’s very unpleasant to breathe it. We have to close all the windows and doors and stay indoors. However we still breathe smoke inside the house because it’s difficult to prevent it from filtering. For a claustrophobic and allergic person as I am, this situation is terrible.

To change the subject, Anne I liked all the pictures you attached on your last blog. We have the same saying here relating to breakfast, having lunch and dinner. But your daily life sometimes rules you, so it’s difficult to put it in practice.
I always have a grapefruit, a cup of tea and a slice of black bread with cheese and marmalade for breakfast. Then, when I arrive at the office I have a cup of coffee with one croissant (in Argentina our croissants are sweet). At lunch time I only eat a sandwich. At around 3 pm I drink another cup of coffee or tea and sometimes eat some biscuits. Later, at 5 pm I have a cup of tea or cappuccino with a slice of black bread with marmalade. Then I eat a large dinner. I reckon that it’s not very healthy to eat so much at night but the only important meal we have is in the evening. I can’t eat very much at midday, otherwise I get sleepy and then I can’t go on working. I also find it stodgy to have a “fry up” for breakfast.
In my opinion, the Brazilian has the best breakfast. But Ana Paula can tell us about it better than me.

Anne, you have a very comfortable desk and you like younger than the picture on the banner.
I can’t resist buying one croissant on my short way to the office too.

You used an expression “you can buy it to go then eat it later. Another way to say it is “you can take away it” or “you can carry away it” Am I right?

It’s a tad difficult to guess what you eat at home for breakfast but I’ll have a go. I think that you eat a slice of pudding with, of course, a cup of tea. By the way, I prepare a delicious banana and nuts pudding :- ;

You asked me about my favourite holiday spot. Oscar and I love travelling and we go to different places every year or almost every year. In another blog I’ll tell you about our trips.

Speaking about language, I typed loop instead of look, sorry. Here are the other sentences:

-We really had a lot of fun (word order)
-My grandfather built the house by himself. (Simple past should be used)
-There were a lot of fruit trees, lettuce and tomato plantation (fruit and tomato should be in singular because of the plural “trees” and the word plantation) (I sometimes confuse this because in Spanish is quite different)
-when my grandparents died (it really was a typing mistake)
-Thanks God we have a car (because then I followed with the pronoun we)


And now, before closing this blog I want to thank you readers for your comments. I love them!

Mahmoudreza, I don’t want to deceive you but I don’t know anything about football. But all of what you said it’s true. Maradona was a heroe here (but not for anyone because of the drug problems he had). Now Messi is the star. I hate when people, especially men, spend the weekend watching football matches. Thanks God that Oscar is not a fan, but he likes River Plate (one of the most important teams).
Do you know that football was introduced in Argentina by the English?

Tanya, thank you for your recommendation about Ballet Books and other writers.

Thanks Naheed and Erika for your comments. Keep writing.

Anna, here in Argentina there are a lot of Italian people. If you visit my country you won’t feel as a foreigner.

I have to quit now.

Hope all of you have had a nice weekend.

Until tomorrow.

Fondly,

Cris

PS: you can call me Cris.

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