Tierra del Fuego: The Land of Fire

I woke up this morning and prepared for class. I guess I didn’t really wake up. After sleeping for 16 straight hours after my Uruguay trip, I laid awake all night. Literally all night. It was miserable but I’m sure I’ll sleep well tonight. Anyway, I arrived to class by taking the metro today so that I would have a little extra time to mentally prepare for my presentation I had to give. Today was the day I had to give a presentation on “La Tierra del Fuego.” The Land of Fire is the southern-most part of Argentina… literally the end of the world. I finished my 15-minute presentation and am pretty sure I did well on it.

After class, I went with some of my friends to the pool. I wasn’t actually going because I had a meeting with a friend at 3:30, but I took a nice walk out and saw where it was. Honestly, I got enough sun in Uruguay to last me awhile. At 3:30 I went to run some errands with my other friends, picked up some lunch, and spent the rest of the afternoon studying. There are a lot of irregular verbs that I am struggling with since the irregular verbs in Portuguese are completely and totally different and I haven’t been practicing Spanish in months.

That night, I headed out with some friends to find a bar. We found the place we wanted to check out and while it was a nice atmosphere, it was extremely hot and expensive. We soon headed out to find a place that was hosting reggaton music that we had heard about. Eventually we found the place and it had already closed. Being hungry, some of my friends wanted to stop at the restaurant across the street. It was 2 in the morning, though, so I wasn’t up for eating anything but kept them company anyway.

At about 2:30, we headed back home. We went to the main street and all headed home, going our separate ways. A friend and I take the same bus home so we stuck together. We found a stop that our bus would pass and waited. Suddenly we felt about two drops of rain before the sky opened and water poured out. We were under a slightly covered area but the rain was blowing sideways so there was no hope for staying dry. And it was cool rain. How miserable! We huddled for warmth until the bus came about 15 minutes later and jumped on. Finally, we made our way home for the night.