Tag Archives: Buenos Aires culture

The Porteño Melting Pot

The Porteño Melting Pot

With a thriving population of almost 13 million people, Buenos Aires is the eighth most densely populated city in the world. The constant flow of immigrants has created the ever-changing, vibrant, and one of a kind flavor and personality, that we call Buenos Aires. The people of Buenos Aires call themselves Porteños, which literally means [...]

Mente and Spanglish: The Perfect Activity to Practice your Spanish

  A great way to practice your Spanish while studying abroad or volunteering here in Buenos Aires is to go to Spanglish!! Spanglish was designed for foreigners to practice their Spanish skills while giving porteños the opportunity to practice English. Not only is it a language exchange, but it’s also a cultural exchange. You can [...]

Mente’s Top 3 Culture “Shockers”

When you first arrive to study abroad in Buenos Aires you will most likely marvel at how beautiful, modern, and familiar the city is. With a well-developed infrastructure, a subway, and up to date technology, Buenos Aires is in many ways similar to an urban area of a similar size in the U.S. and Europe. [...]

creamfields Buenos Aires 2011

Mente on the Music of Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires is truly a city that never sleeps, so finding something to do is as easy as walking out your front door. It is a great city for study abroad students from all over the world because there is something for everyone, especially when it comes to music. It doesn’t matter where you are [...]

Buenos Aires Nightlife: 7 days a week and once more for good measure

~ The last minute search for a place to go out in Buenos Aires can be much like putting 25 cents into a gumball machine: You know something delicious is bound to come out, and although you have a prefered flavor in mind, its really the gamble and anticipation that leads you to the game [...]

Photography in Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires is truly urban in all sense of the term. An international capital with a variety of cultural capital seeping out of in every nook and cranny of the city, making this city the it destination for the artistic community. Photographers and photography students looking to dabble in photo courses flood here because of [...]

Mente’s mente on Mate – the magical drink

In a city like Buenos Aires that really never sleeps, one starts to wonder what keeps the porteño motor running all day long? When studying abroad in Argentina, you have to learn the ways to wake and KEEP you up: stay sharp for your spanish classes, fit in with your porteño classmates and coworkers at [...]

Breakfast in Buenos Aires

One thing study abroad students often notice is that breakfast in Buenos Aires is a drastically different animal than many european and north americans are accustomed to. Often, breakfast constitues a quick matecito or some tostados con queso crema hile running out the door. And while the waffles and pancakes and eggs play less of [...]