My name is Stephen Cabrera and I'm a third year undergraduate student at Case Western Reserve University. In a little over a month, I'll be leaving my hometown in Cleveland, Ohio to study abroad in Buenos Aires for a year, in what will be the longest time I've ever been away from Cleveland. My aim with this blog is to archive some of my experiences while in Argentina, note my observations about the country and allow my friends and family to read about what I'm up to without my having to write people specifically on a regular basis.
In light of this blog's purpose, this post and the ones that follow are a little premature, but I want to get in the habit of writing everyday before I leave, so in this month before I leave I'm going to try to write as much as I can (both here and elsewhere) about the place I'm leaving. This includes Shaker Heights, where I live, and various other places in the greater Cleveland area where I go to school and spend much of my time.
Also, in case you were wondering, the name of the blog comes from informal names given to Americans (gringos) and Guatemalans (chapines) respectively. As my background is half of each I thought that it served as an appropriate moniker for me and that "in Argentina" summed up the aim of the blog in chronicling my journey.
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