March 08 and 09, 2002 Friday and Saturday
The Asado? A Barbecue Argentine Style
Sara's Mom
We visited Sara's friend Marcelo's work at Scania on Friday. Scania is a Swedish company that manufactures trucks. Marcelo is amechanical technician there, and he arranged a tour for us. This is unusual for them to do so Sara and I felt privileged. Miguel, the product manager was our tour guide. He showed us the factory thatbuilt the drive shafts and steering columns that are later shipped to Brazil for further assembly. A very modern up-to-date factory with arobotic assembly, and computer tester. He also showed us the truckfactory, which was deserted due to their poor economical conditions. The banks in Argentina have frozen all loans since September 2001. Without the loans and the uncertainty of the country the demand fortruck sales doesn't exist. They still have some trucks availablesince after the shut down, but only had two sales since September. On the way back to the apartment we passed another peaceful protestgoing down the street.In the afternoon Sara went to Aticana School, and I stayed in theapartment to finish up our laundry. Javier was kind to loan us hiswashing machine. Clothes had to be hung up on a line located on thebalcony. Nothing dries in this humidity, and it was 42 degrees Cwhich is about 110* F. HOT!!! This is the day I picked to iron. Itwas good to have some clean clothes.> Saturday was our last day in Tucuman for we were leaving toCordoba, Argentina on Sunday. Marcelo and Javier took us for a rideto see the country. It was another hot day, but a little bit coolerthan yesterday. We went up to the mountains to see the lake, and thedamn. We also visited a monastery that monks lived and made fooditems. A tourist attraction. We bought duce leche there. Dulceleche is like a thick caramel sauce that is sweet, and goes great onice cream or fruit. That evening Sara and I were invited over to the family's house for a pizza (different from American pizza.) This is the family that Sara stayed with when she lived there three years ago. This family included 50 people for a typical family style gettogether. Wow, you can fit all of my family in a Toyota. This was special for me. Well, needless to say, a simple pizza turned out to be pizza,empanadas, asado, and a very large birthday cake for one of thegirls.
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