A good two days

As for my past two days, they have been pretty eventful. I am going to blog now and post the pictures in the next couple of days in the blog when I have internet access on my computer.

So, let´s start with Wednesday. I went to class all day. Man, five hours is long. That afternoon I went shopping around with some friends. We just browsed. They were looking for Spanish-English dictionaries but we had little luck. We finished off the afternoon with a delicious ice cream from McDonalds. This is my first fast food experience since Ive moved out of the United States. Its not that there arent any fast food places... they are actually everywhere... they just dont have good vegetarian options out of the United States so Ive never gone.

That night I had dinner with my host mom around 9:30. We had delicious whole wheat pizza. Then I headed out for the night with some friends. We went to a bar about an hour from our houses to check out a new neighborhood. My friend Clarissa and I took a bus, the 152 (I was nervous because it was my first time on an Argentinian bus). We arrived around 1:30 am and waited until about 2:30 am in line to get in. While in line, we were approched by various English-speaking Argentnian guys eager to practice their English with us. Once we entered, we found it wasn´t really worth the wait, but it was a good place. It was a laid back bar with 3 rooms and a dark atmosphere. We met some various Argentinian people and were joined by another American friend. At around 6:30 we headed to catch the metro back home and I headed to my apartment to change clothes, eat breakfast, and head to a long day of class.

After class the next day (Thursday), I searched for a cheap, used phone but had no luck. I will just be withouta phone while I am here in Argentina. Bummer. Its not worth paying 75 USD for a new one though for only a few days. I headed out to pick up a few clothes after that. I purchased a ton of things for a total of 40 USD. WOW! At 6pm, I met my friends at the ISA office and we took the metro to another part of town and then walked for about a half an hour. It was an hour long trek, unfortunately, but we made it to hour next destination... tango classes. Now, I wouldn´t say I have 2 left feet or anything, but tango wasn´t really my thing. I was placed with a junior high American boy with bad breath who thought he was too cool to tango. After practicing the routine about 3 times, he was done. It was a long, boring class.

I headed out around 8:30 with some friends to grab some dinner. A solid two hours later (there´s no such thing as ¨fast¨service in Latin America) we headed to an American bar about ten minutes away to watch the game between Texas and Alabama. The first bar was too packed so we paid to go to another one nearby. It was funny. It was like we were entering the American world again. EVERYONE spoke English, wore American clothes, and blonde hair and blue eyes were just as common as brown hair. It felt like we were back home. And American commercials. Since the tv was satellite, we had American commercials. Some of the first American commercials Ive seen in months. Around 2am I was exhausted so a friend and I took the bus about 30 minutes back to our houses and I crashed. I was exhausted from almost 48 hours of no sleep. That night, I slept very well.

Tomorrow I head with some friends to the beach in Urguay. I am going to head out tomorrow morning and I will be back late, late Sunday night so I can make it to class on Monday. I can´t wait and will certainly put up pictures about it!