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    Yes yes, I recommend this program for many reasons. Of course, everyone has a different experience with everything, so I can only tell about mine. But mine has been really great. I've enjoyed the city, the people, the NYU staff here, and basically my whole time. Last year I was not so into NYU, both the people and the institution. I spent the year attending my classes, but that's about all I had to do with the school, I hardly ever hung out with students or did any NYU activities. Since I've always lived off-campus, being so detached from the school has been too easy--and it' what I wanted in the beginning. I'm till happy about it, since I still have my reservations about the whole NYU thing in New York, but here in Buenos Aires, I think they do an amazing job. The center where we take our classes is great, big, and nicely located. The staff are all wonderful (in my opinion) and seem to be friends will all of us students. Also, I know planned activities can be silly, but theirs were really good I think. Maybe orientation week was a bit much, but I think that always happens with orientations. I think I already mentioned this, but the trip to Salta (which NYU planned and paid for) was really, really wonderful, beautiful, and nicely done. Also, as I'll write about in my next post, they did a free, huge, great Thanksgiving dinner for us, in a country where it can be very difficult to find turkeys.     More on Buenos Aires, and being here--I think the whole study abroad was a lot different for the last group who came, and will be a lot different for the next group to come. This is because the size of the group changes so much. Last semester (the first one here) they were only about 30 students. Now we are about 60. I don't know how it will be next time.     No matter what the size the city is good in a lot of ways, but it' not what I imagined. People always talk about the "Paris of South America" but I haven't found it that way at all. Sure there are many European aspects, but it is definitely it's own thing, and not booming or fast-paced like I'd thought. I guess I've come to describe it as a sort of weird hybrid of 1st world and 3rd world city, in the sense that it seems almost completely 1st world if you're in the nice neighborhoods, but within the city limits are sprawling shanty-towns with terrible living conditions and immense poverty. You don't see them though. In a lot of ways, it seems like the 3rd world, and non-Euro aspects are hidden, or at least they try to hide them. Another less intense example is the pace of things. It puts on the air of being a fast-paced city, but sometimes, things just don't work, or take forever. The pace can be very up-and-down. One other thing is that the people from BA, or "porteños" are very, very proud of being from BA.     I think I could keep writing about this place for a long time, but I might never give a clear image of my opinion, 'cause in the end, I'm not perfectly positive about how I feel (about BA). Either way, as a study abroad site, I think it's a great place to come, but it's not Europe. A lot of NYU people here, I think, have connected on that, because they chose this place specifically for that reason.     Before I stop, I also will say I HIGHLY recommend doing a homestay. I think it offers a much better experience if you really want to learn the language. Also, you can always go hang out in the dorm if you want, but if you live in the dorm, you can never hang out in your homestay. Good luck!