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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:40:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Krisch</dc:creator>
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		<title>Learning to Walk</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:19:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Krisch</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Argentina]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tango]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[beginning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Buenos Aires]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time. &#8211;Stephen Wright BUENOS AIRES&#8211;October 28 On this trip&#8217;s first day of Tango lessons I am surprised to find that despite the six-month gap I remember a bit of Tango: the basic step, the ocho cortado, the close embrace, the walk (more or less), the posture (more [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=samkrisch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4964743&amp;post=2212&amp;subd=samkrisch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Loss For Words</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 17:54:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Krisch</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Argentina]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sam's Favorites]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Learning Spanish]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tango]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote this piece for my first photography exhibit which opened last night, October 17, at 202 Market in Roanoke, Virginia&#8230; On October 16, 2008 I stepped off of a plane in Buenos Aires, Argentina, a city that I had never visited and in which I knew no one, to try to learn two things [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=samkrisch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4964743&amp;post=2174&amp;subd=samkrisch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Year&#8217;s Resolution</title>
		<link>http://samkrisch.wordpress.com/2009/09/18/new-years-resolution/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:43:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Krisch</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Argentina]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Achieving goals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jewish New Year]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[making changes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new year's resolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rosh Hashona]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As you know, the Jewish New Year starts at sundown this evening and I have been thinking a lot during the past days about why I am becoming more successful at making life changes. It is relatively easy, but powerful. I have started to look at New Year&#8217;s Eve as the destination rather than as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=samkrisch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4964743&amp;post=2137&amp;subd=samkrisch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>El Sombrero Rojo (The Red Hat)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 10:40:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Krisch</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Buenos Aires]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[short story]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[El Sombrero Rojo (The Red Hat) A little story by Sam Krisch One afternoon, three men sat in a café. One man wore a red hat. He told a story to his friends: When my grandfather was young, he fell in love with a woman five years older. She was married to a much older [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=samkrisch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4964743&amp;post=1418&amp;subd=samkrisch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Failure to Communicate</title>
		<link>http://samkrisch.wordpress.com/2009/03/27/failure-to-communicate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:48:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Krisch</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Communication Problems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Expatriate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Learning Spanish]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[phone home]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What we got here is&#8230; failure to communicate &#8211;Spoken by Strother Martin in COOL HAND LUKE March 27, 2009 Dear Buenos Aires, We are writing in order to try and work out some misunderstandings. First of all, Sam left his ethernet connector cord for his MacBook Air at home and had to spend most of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=samkrisch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4964743&amp;post=1653&amp;subd=samkrisch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Accidents</title>
		<link>http://samkrisch.wordpress.com/2009/03/21/happy-accidents/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2009 17:19:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Krisch</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Argentina]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;There is no accident, just as there is no beginning and no end.&#8221; &#8211;Jackson Pollock Buenos Aires, March 21 When I was 16 years old, I wrote a short story. It was about a popular sitcom in which every character in the show was spun off into his or her own series. Ultimately, no actors [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=samkrisch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4964743&amp;post=1651&amp;subd=samkrisch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Breaking the Surface</title>
		<link>http://samkrisch.wordpress.com/2009/02/08/breaking-the-surface/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 22:09:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Krisch</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Conversation Exchange]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[intercambio]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Buenos Aires, February 8 Beneath the surface of the water lies an ever-expanding reservoir of self-doubt. I wistfully picture a life boat, a floatation vest, a flotilla of rescue ships, a Coast Guard helicopter hovering above with a friendly officer in a wet suit who offers me a strong hand that I grab gratefully. With [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=samkrisch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4964743&amp;post=1590&amp;subd=samkrisch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sink Or Swim</title>
		<link>http://samkrisch.wordpress.com/2009/01/29/sink-or-swim/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 14:14:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Krisch</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Being Fearful]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fear]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[About poker: If you look around the table and you can&#8217;t tell who the sucker is, it&#8217;s you. &#8211;Spoken by Paul Scofield in QUIZ SHOW BUENOS AIRES, JANUARY 23-27 The water is cold. Too cold for swimming. I dangle my feet to keep cool in the heat. I am sitting on the edge of a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=samkrisch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4964743&amp;post=1574&amp;subd=samkrisch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Making Change Happen</title>
		<link>http://samkrisch.wordpress.com/2009/01/22/making-change-happen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 23:59:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Krisch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BUENOS AIRES, January 22 As I waited in the bank line, I mused that buried deep in this country&#8217;s character is a resistance to change&#8230;or at least a resistance to giving it out. In the busy shopping streets you hear a rapid patter from men dressed in nice clothes: Cambio Cambio&#8230; Casa de Cambio&#8230; Cambio [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=samkrisch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4964743&amp;post=1565&amp;subd=samkrisch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chapter Two</title>
		<link>http://samkrisch.wordpress.com/2009/01/21/chapter-two/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 18:53:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Krisch</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[double identity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[EN ROUTE FROM ROANOKE, U. S. A., JANUARY 16 You wake up in the United States on Friday and it is 6°F (-14°C). You know that when you arrive in Buenos Aires the forecast high is 98°F (36°C). You worry that what you almost froze off this morning you will nearly sweat off tomorrow. You [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=samkrisch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4964743&amp;post=1537&amp;subd=samkrisch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Up In Arms</title>
		<link>http://samkrisch.wordpress.com/2009/01/20/up-in-arms/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:53:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Krisch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BUENOS AIRES, JANUARY 20 There isn&#8217;t a day that goes by in Buenos Aires when I don&#8217;t see at least one person with an arm in a sling or cast. Today, during my walk to and from the supermercado, I saw failures of arms control each way. The first case was a chica in a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=samkrisch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4964743&amp;post=1529&amp;subd=samkrisch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Peek-a-boo</title>
		<link>http://samkrisch.wordpress.com/2009/01/19/peek-a-boo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 23:22:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Krisch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;One should always keep a diary in order to have something scandalous to read in the train.&#8221; &#8211;Oscar Wilde BUENOS AIRES, January 18 I am walking through the Sunday street fair in San Telmo and enjoying the feel of being back in Buenos Aires. Despite yesterday&#8217;s summer swelter, today is cool and there are people [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=samkrisch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4964743&amp;post=1510&amp;subd=samkrisch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chapter One</title>
		<link>http://samkrisch.wordpress.com/2008/12/03/chapter-one/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 02:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Krisch</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[birthdays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blogging]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I was a free man in Paris, I felt unfetterred and alive, no one calling me up for favors, and no one&#8217;s future to decide.&#8221; &#8211;Joni Mitchell, &#8220;Free Man in Paris&#8221; Buenos Aires, December 3 Today is my fiftieth birthday. It is a good feeling to be here and a very good time to look [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=samkrisch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4964743&amp;post=1263&amp;subd=samkrisch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>49 1/2</title>
		<link>http://samkrisch.wordpress.com/2008/11/29/49-12/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Nov 2008 21:58:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Krisch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Buenos Aires, November 29 Today I dined outdoors at a café and watched a race, either a biathlon or a 10-K. The runners had on identical green shirts and all had water packs on their backs. A man with perfectly-styled hair that seemed impermeable to the elements floated past. People who were working the race [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=samkrisch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4964743&amp;post=1237&amp;subd=samkrisch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Funny &#8216;Bone</title>
		<link>http://samkrisch.wordpress.com/2008/11/26/funny-bone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:57:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Krisch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Buenos Aires, November 25 Saturday night, my neighborhood is very loud. I hear crowds outside, laughter, horns honking. I decide to go out for a walk to drink in the atmosphere. There are groups of people waiting outside the theatres smoking and loudly chatting. Every so often, a bus, sort of an open-air trolley, passes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=samkrisch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4964743&amp;post=1216&amp;subd=samkrisch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My Best Friend</title>
		<link>http://samkrisch.wordpress.com/2008/11/23/my-best-friend/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Nov 2008 20:22:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Krisch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Journeys are the midwives of thought&#8230;There is almost a quaint correlation between what is before our eyes and the thoughts we are able to have in our heads: large thoughts at times requiring large views and new thoughts, new views. &#8211;Alain de Botton, THE ART OF TRAVEL Buenos Aires, November 23 In the early twentieth-century, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=samkrisch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4964743&amp;post=1202&amp;subd=samkrisch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In A Class Of My Own</title>
		<link>http://samkrisch.wordpress.com/2008/11/20/in-a-class-of-my-own/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:33:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Buenos Aires, November 20 By last Friday, the frustration with Spanish had built almost to the breaking point. After the first two hours of instruction, I was in pain. The Spanish words had become fuzzy, floated towards the heavens, morphed into razor-beaked ravens that swooped down in flock after flock pecking at my eyes and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=samkrisch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4964743&amp;post=1173&amp;subd=samkrisch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Music In The Late Afternoon</title>
		<link>http://samkrisch.wordpress.com/2008/11/20/music-in-the-late-afternoon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:12:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Krisch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Buenos Aires, November 17 It is 7 o&#8217;clock on a beautiful spring afternoon. The sun casts long shadows over the lavender-budded trees and commuters wait in long queues for buses. Shoppers crowd the avenues, gathering ingredients for their evening meals, and lovers kiss with varying degrees of passion. I run through the crowds on my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=samkrisch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4964743&amp;post=1131&amp;subd=samkrisch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Phone Home</title>
		<link>http://samkrisch.wordpress.com/2008/11/15/phone-home/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 10:54:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Krisch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Buenos Aires, November 15 It is dreadfully expensive to use your cell phone here. In Europe, it runs about $.40 a minute, not chump change, but at least you can call your mother or your parole officer for a few bucks. In Argentina, even with AT&#38;T&#8217;s &#8220;World Traveler&#8221; discount, it is a little shy of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=samkrisch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4964743&amp;post=975&amp;subd=samkrisch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Again at 3 a.m.</title>
		<link>http://samkrisch.wordpress.com/2008/11/12/again-at-3-am/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 22:15:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Krisch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Buenos Aires, November 12 You wake up again in the middle of the night. This time it&#8217;s quarter to three which makes you think of that song by Frank Sinatra. Almost every night you are awakened by the compulsive neighbors&#8217; &#8220;special time.&#8221; Those nights that are quiet, you are like a new mother. You wake [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=samkrisch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4964743&amp;post=956&amp;subd=samkrisch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>La Puerta</title>
		<link>http://samkrisch.wordpress.com/2008/11/11/la-puerta/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 21:17:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A four-year-old child could understand that. Run out and find me a four-year-old child, I can&#8217;t make head or tail out of it. &#8211;Groucho Marx, DUCK SOUP Buenos Aires, November 11 I&#8217;m sure for good reason, almost every building you come to in Buenos Aires has a security guard. You usually have to speak into [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=samkrisch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4964743&amp;post=944&amp;subd=samkrisch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>No Translation Necessary</title>
		<link>http://samkrisch.wordpress.com/2008/11/10/no-translation-necessary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:25:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Krisch</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Translating]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Buenos Aires, November 6 When I was walking to my tango lesson, I passed a newsstand. At the door, a young woman took gum out of her mouth and threw it towards the street. The gum hit me in the chest and bounced off. The woman gasped and was ashamed. She hid her face in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=samkrisch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4964743&amp;post=928&amp;subd=samkrisch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s 3 a.m.</title>
		<link>http://samkrisch.wordpress.com/2008/11/07/its-3-am/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Nov 2008 00:16:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Buenos Aires, November 7 I awoke in the middle of the night to the loud and happy noises of the couple in the apartment next to me. 3 a.m. seems to be their &#8220;special&#8221; time, and as usual it was highly vocal and of a long duration. This made getting back to sleep very difficult. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=samkrisch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4964743&amp;post=900&amp;subd=samkrisch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Haircut</title>
		<link>http://samkrisch.wordpress.com/2008/11/07/a-haircut/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 23:32:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Buenos Aires, November 7 This was the week I had to confront the fact that the cape I wear is only one of mystery, not one that comes with superpowers. I struggled in both Tango and Spanish and now that it is the end of week three, I suppose a bit of sophomore slump has [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=samkrisch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4964743&amp;post=887&amp;subd=samkrisch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dancing Down Corrientes</title>
		<link>http://samkrisch.wordpress.com/2008/11/04/dancing-down-corrientes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:12:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Krisch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Buenos Aires, November 4 It&#8217;s a muggy Spring day and the town could use a good rain. Dust is in the streets and fumes are in the air. I am quite frustrated by my inability to follow along in Spanish class, to understand, and to speak as well as my classmates. This morning, the frustration [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=samkrisch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4964743&amp;post=812&amp;subd=samkrisch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Good Is The Money?</title>
		<link>http://samkrisch.wordpress.com/2008/11/01/what-good-is-the-money/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2008 16:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[      Buenos Aires, November 2 My uncle used to quote free-spenders during World War II. They would shrug their shoulders and say: &#8220;What good is the money if we don&#8217;t win the war?&#8221; Thursday, I talked to a woman that is a professional photographer based out of New York. She is a native [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=samkrisch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4964743&amp;post=662&amp;subd=samkrisch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Found Illusions</title>
		<link>http://samkrisch.wordpress.com/2008/11/01/found-illusions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2008 06:30:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  ILLUSIONS: Pretend to have had many, and complain that you have lost them all. --Gustave Flaubert, DICTIONARY OF RECEIVED IDEAS Buenos Aires, November 1 Last evening, I received an e-mail from my friend Sarah Hazlegrove, who took the photos in my page Burning My Bridges.  She is a photographer who spends about half her time in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=samkrisch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4964743&amp;post=751&amp;subd=samkrisch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Serious Translation</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 21:13:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Buenos Aires, October 31 This afternoon, I spend two hours trying to communicate with my instructor Juan, a very intelligent man, who tries to piece together the threads of my broken Spanish with the aid of gentle correction, pantomiming, and writing words down, so that perhaps I can see the cognate. We try to correct [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=samkrisch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4964743&amp;post=725&amp;subd=samkrisch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tangled Up and Tongue-Tied</title>
		<link>http://samkrisch.wordpress.com/2008/10/28/tangled-up-and-tongue-tied/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 23:47:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Krisch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Buenos Aires, October 28 Tonight you write from the relative comfort of the cot you call your bed. As you had foreseen, learning new things at fifty would be challenging on several levels. There is the embarrassment and hesitancy you feel when trying to speak a foreign language, particularly &#8220;immersed&#8221; in said language in a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=samkrisch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4964743&amp;post=689&amp;subd=samkrisch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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