blueberries!

So BAICA's PTF mom, Lori, is really awesome. She provides food (including wonderful poundcakes) to BAICA teachers, and in general is all about helping our school. She really does a lot and doesn't get enough credit for all she does. One really cool thing is that she likes blueberries. A LOT. Just like me. It is my favorite fruit. Probably 4th favorite food. Just kidding. I don't rank my foods in order of best-liked. I'm not that big of a dork.

Anyways, Lori and I figured out we share this common interest in blueberries. The ironic thing about Argentina, well one of them at least, is that they grow tons and tons of blueberries, but you can never find them in stores here. They export nearly their entire crop. So after I did some google searching, it is a powerful tool that really benefited in this case, I found a local phone number of a blueberry exporter, and their warehouse happened to be really close to where we live. I called, got in touch with a friendly Argentine (which can be rare around BA), explained my situation of how we really liked blueberries, but could never find any, and could we try and buy some directly from her. After she checked into the matter, and us trading a few phone calls, she said she had a box of blueberries for us that had just been harvested in Tucuman. They were on their way out of the country, but she pulled a box off the shipment for us. Lori went to pick the box up.

And get this, in the box, 15 kilos of blueberries, for $0 pesos! I'll translate. 33 pounds of blueberries, and the lady would not take anything for all of these blueberries. Zilch! Incredible! Being the first free thing I've received in this country, it was a great first! And Lori continued to be really cool. She made her famous pound cake, this time adding blueberries, I mean after all, we've got 33 pounds to go around, and then gave me half of it!

Así que estoy re-contento con los arándanos tan ricos que tengo!!