Can you remember your 1st day in Buenos Aires?

Maybe not your first visit as a tourist ...but your first day as someone that intended to stay for as long as you could.

What a frabjous day! A new life was before you in a place that held all the promise of being what you always wanted.

I hope that your first day worked out to be the first of as many beautiful ones as you ever wanted.

If you'll allow me, however, I'll bet that some/many of your subsequent days were spent navigating a strange land as a stranger. Days that could have been spent enjoying this new city and nation ...days that got bogged down in things as simple as getting someone to repair a light fixture ...or as complicated as talking to the police on an important matter.

If you've been here awhile, the memory of getting internet into your humble flat or a visit to a laundromat is something distant and a now funny story. Be truthful, though. It was probably a big big headache on that long-ago day.

If you could help someone avoid the tortures of those trivial things, would you like that?

If you've got some other hard-won "living skills" in more grave matters, would sharing them appeal to you?

What if you only had to give that help one time? What if your help would become part of a wiki, a knowledge base, that would remain permanently available to those that need what you would have loved on that day?

IMAS is the place for that.

Tomorrow evening, Tuesday the 22nd at areatres, will be the first of many opportunities for you to share what you know ...and share what others already have figured out.

There are already more "rsvps" than were expected. There's a real need for this.

Tuesday evening will deal with anything, anything that you want to know about DNI or Legal Residency. Bring any and all of your personal needs, situations, and experiences. Later DNI gatherings will focus on the more complicated aspects of "getting legal in Argentina."

The next seminar could explore more mundane, day-to-day concerns. Don't waste a day of your life on something that somebody else has already figured out.

Get help. Give help. Don't think you are the first person to face this stuff. Do it yourself ...but do it with a friend. A new friend.

(IMAS does not ask for money. IMAS does not need money. IMAS needs you.)