Long summer days by the swimming pool, BBQ’s, morning golf games, Sunday soccer matches, bike rides and visits from lots of family members. Our initial time in Suárez was a relaxing mixture of visiting with family and friends, good food and enjoying the summertime.
Coronel Suárez is a town of 40,000 located in the middle of the pampas 6 hours south of the capital, Buenos Aires. In addition to being heavily dependent on agriculture Coronel Suárez also has the benefit of industry thanks to 2 large factories (a Reebok shoe factory owned by Brazilians and a pulp and paper plant) which employ a large number of people and keep the local economy moving. As a result Suárez has a much better economic situation than many other small towns in Argentina. It is a nice place where most people know each other and the quality of life is high. Gaby left Suárez at the age of 18 and moved to Buenos Aires to start a career and life in the big city. Thus besides a few weeks of vacation here and there she never lived in Suárez as an adult.
Gaby and I had previously shipped ourselves a box of clothes and belongings from the United States so we were better able to transition to our new life in Argentina.
With a nasty recession in the U.S. getting worse by the day and the awful reports of layoffs and unemployment filling the news the idea of going back to Napa, buying new cars and starting over just didn’t sound like very much fun yet. Especially when we were having such a nice time in Suárez.
So we stayed. After the first month we started working in Gaby’s fathers’ insurance business to help him out and to start easing back into the work world. We also did some small trips in the area
But most of all we enjoyed the Argentinean summer.
No comments:
Post a Comment