Spring Break
50 Things To Do in Argentina
Alex Godden (OJ), Viewpoints Editor
Issue date: 1/14/08 Section: News
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2. Learn about the Argentine custom of throwing all your unwanted paperwork out of your office windows on New Year's Eve.
3. See Eva Peron's grave, and subsequently have the tune of 'Don't Cry For Me Argentina' stuck in your head for the rest of the day.
4. Drink to the passing of the New Year in seven different timezones.
5. Learn how to say 'cheers' in Spanish, Italian, Hebrew, Russian and Arabic.
6. Drink mate in true gaucho style (the key rules: always pass mate clockwise, don't touch the straw, add fresh hot water for each person and, most importantly, don't scrunch your face up and say 'ugh').
7. Eat lots of steak.
8. Eat lots of dulce de leche.
9. Eat lots of ice cream.
10. Eat lots of dulce de leche flavoured ice cream.
11. Briefly consider steak flavoured ice-cream, but conclude that there is probably a good reason that it doesn't exist already.
12. Go for dinner at 10.30pm and arrive at clubs at 2am.
13. Sleep on buses, boats, airplanes, couches, benches, grass, rocks…
14. Marvel at how a restaurant can take nearly two hours to serve the first round of drinks
15. Have a paper airplane design competition in a restaurant while waiting for the food to arrive.
16. Make a dog out of breadsticks in a restaurant waiting for the food to arrive.
17. Make a catapult out of silverware, a salt shaker and a napkin holder in a restaurant while waiting for the food to arrive.
18. Discover the expression that appears on someone's face when you replace the water in their glass with vodka.
19. Find out what the expression 'dog in a bathtub' means.
20. Watch an amazing tango show.
21. Try to dance tango.
22. Realize tango is harder than it looks (and it looks pretty hard).
23. Give up dancing tango.
24. Meet up with one of the other six groups of HBS people that are in Argentina (because vacations are all about broadening your horizons, right?).
25. Get licked by the President's dog outside her summerhouse in El Calafate (at least, it may have been her dog).
26. Learn some jokes about Argentineans.*
27. Have a faintly pompous BGIE-style discussion about the chronic shortage of small bills after a barman refused to take a 100 peso note to pay for a 35 peso round of drinks.
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