Hola friends and family!
Well, we all thought I was a bad blogger before but now its been almost a month and I haven´t written to update! Where shall I begin!?
Well lets just say that classes are in full swing and here´s a bummer: I´m actually doing homework! Not too much, so don´t get worried. Still relaxing and enjoying Argentina. I have midterms soon, which is crazy to admit. I think someone told me that this week, we will have been here for 60 days! Crazy! In some ways, I feel like I have developed a new life down here in two months. But in other ways, I feel like I just got here!
We went to a farm about two weeks ago and saw some amazing animals! Turkeys don´t seem that exciting, but when you haven´t actually seen one standing up walking around, with it´s feathers all puffed out, it is very interesting! We also saw some cows, emus, geese... And we rode horses! Plus I did this mini zip line thing, which was pretty cool!! (If you want to see pictures, a lot of them are on facebook. I´m not sure exactly how to put pictures on here!)
We also went to the Tigre River. The first time we went, it was kind of dreary, and the weather wasn´t so great. Another day, Sarah and I went back to the river with Adam and his family. I even saw Adam and his brother waterski, which was pretty cool!
I miss everyone a lot, though. It´s also been weird not having a job down here. Well, I am giving a friend´s Mom English lessons, which is really fun! I actually love teaching. I usually see her for an hour a day, three to five times a week. I´ve been giving lessons for almost three weeks and she has already made a lot of progress, which is really neat to see!
So a few of my friends decided that they were going to do one crazy thing while they were in Argentina. We went to a casino last week (Sarah´s crazy thing was gambling) and I lost 10 pesos. Oh well, only $3... She said she needs to find something new thats crazy because gambling was very anti climatic.
Alex and Katherine decided their crazy things would occur on a day called "Body Mutilation Day." (Deemed that by Alex himself!) Alex got his septum pierces, and Katherine got her ears pierced, an industrial piercing and a small tattoo. Erika got her ears pierced and her friend from another program got her eyebrow pierced. I was there for "apoyo moral" (moral support) but I didn´t get anything done. I still need to figure out what my crazy Argentina thing will be! Perhaps skydiving!? Bungeejumping!? HANG GLIDING!?!? (Mom, breathe... I´m kidding!)
We´re going to a tango show soon, which I am really excited for. We are also in the process of planning a trip to Mendoza, a 12 hour bus ride from here. (Yay for Comso magazine en español!) It´s wine country, so we are hoping to do a wine tasting. We also found a program that does bike riding, horseback riding, repelling and some other activities. We´re really hoping to also go to the hot springs and white water rafting! Vamos a ver... (We´ll see...)
Anyway, I hope all of you at home are well and I miss you a ton!
Love, Becca
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Monday, August 11, 2008
And what a bad blogger I´ve been!!!
Hola everyone!
Its been crazy here... Like I said, classes are in full swing and that means going to them... Not an excuse for not blogging in 9 days but ehh cest la vie!
So the class update is this: We had to finalize our schedules by Friday. I am taking...
Monday: Español (3-5), Lit 1 (5-7), Argentine Art (7:30-9:30)
Tuesday: Tango (1-3), Keystone (3-5)
Wednesday: Español (3-5), Traditions and Culture (5-7)
I was going to take this history class but let me just tell you... We talk about history so much in Lit and Keystones that I was like, I CANT STAY IN THIS CLASS! Its crazy that I only have class 3 days a week. But I think Thursday is going to be a homework/ study day. This week, we are meeting up to go over some verbs (ser, ester, ir, haber, y tener, in case anyone is interested) and hopefully some expressions. I think itll really help a lot.
Last week, I went to 2 musuems. One was dedicated to Sarmiento and the other just had some different Argentine art and history displays. The second musuem had this amazing garden, and we took a bunch of picutres. Speaking of pictures, Im not quite sure how to upload them here, but they are all of facebook. Ill be adding the pictures from the past week hopefully soon.
I had a really great weekend! Thursday night we went out (surprise surprise) and it was SOO much fun. We keep winding up at the same club, because it has 3 names. One night its Arroz, another its Lost and another its Mod. So we keep thinking we are going to a new place and always wind up there...
On Friday, Sarah and I went to Mar del Plata with Agustín, Adam, their friend Maxi (I hope I spelled that right...) and Adams family. It was so much fun!! We got there on Friday a little late and ate dinner (Adams mom is an amazing cook... I ate postes, which are like cake and pastries, with every meal of the day!) and then went out for a bit. On Saturday, we got up and played tennis. Now, those of you who know me are probably shocked by this. TENNIS!? But thats a sport! Well yes, but its rather similar to ice skating and all of those other activities... Im just as bad at it here as I was at home. I will say that I had a great time, and if I had to pick a sport to play, tennis is actually kind of fun! And I will say it brought back some rather fond memories of gym class. HA! Sara and I took their ATV to the beach (yes I rode on an ATV! Can you believe it? But I was too scared to drive, so I left that up to her...) and then I took a MILLION beach pictures and did a mini photo shoot on the big rocks leading out to the ocean. The weather was pretty cool, but it was a gorgeous day :)
After that, we had lunch and then went back to the beach. It was soo cold at this point but still great. I got some pictures of Agustín and Adam skim boarding. I would have tried it but I was so cold, there was no CHANCE I was even going to get in the water! We went and got churros after that, which was great. Because this is Argentina and they put dulce de leche in and on EVERYTHING, they also put it in the churros. (I could hear the Hallelujah choir when I ate them!)
We drove back to his house and I noticed something crazy... They were running red lights all the time! When I asked about it, I found out that during the winter (because its a beach town) there arent as many people there and it is illegal to run red lights!! We also passed a cop on a solid line and the cop.... MOVED OVER! Can you believe that?! Only in Argentina...
We went back and had dinner, ohh...
I should also mention that Adams family has a parrot named Pedro, who in all seriousness, speaks better Spanish than I do. At one point this weekend, I was like, ¨Crap! I cant believe this bird can use reflexive verbs and direct object pronouns!!!!¨ Of course he repeats everything, but still... Its funny to hear a bird speak Spanish!
So after dinner, we got ourselves together (I got to watch a bit of the Olympics which was neat)
and went out. It was a huge club that had 4 different rooms of different music. They do this thing at clubs where they start out with techno and lead into crappy American music. (And for those of you who dont know, I love crappy American music!!) So, we danced in the salsa/ raeggaton (did I even come close to spelling that right?) and then went to dance to ¨girls just wanna have fun¨and ¨i love rock and roll¨AAANND... ¨youre the one that I want¨(Yes from Grease, they play it EVERYWHERE!)
So on the way home, we got stopped (in a line behind a bunch of other people) for a random sobriety check. I wished I had my camera cause Ive never seen one before. They pulled over the most random people, too. This old lady was behind us, and she must have been 65 or 70! Adam blew a crazy 0.00... So they let us go. (But no photos from that... DARN!)
On Sunday, we came home... But first stopped to see this place near the sea where there were a TON of fisherman and .... SEA LIONS! Now that may not seem exciting, but have you ever seen one?? Its one of those things that you think you might have seen, but I dont know... Ive never seen one in real life before. They are very cute. BUT SMELL AWFUL!!! I got quite a few pictures of them :)
We had lunch at a seafood place where I tried fried seaweed (not bad) and took a picture of Sarah holding an octopus!! Crazy!
I hate to cut this short and leave out the top 5 again, but I have class in about 6 minutes... Next time, I promise.
Tomorrow, we are going to a place in Palermo to find out about doing some volunteering and then pretty much class and homework for the rest of the week.
I miss everyone a lot and hope all is well on the U.S. homefront!!!
Love,
Rebecca
Its been crazy here... Like I said, classes are in full swing and that means going to them... Not an excuse for not blogging in 9 days but ehh cest la vie!
So the class update is this: We had to finalize our schedules by Friday. I am taking...
Monday: Español (3-5), Lit 1 (5-7), Argentine Art (7:30-9:30)
Tuesday: Tango (1-3), Keystone (3-5)
Wednesday: Español (3-5), Traditions and Culture (5-7)
I was going to take this history class but let me just tell you... We talk about history so much in Lit and Keystones that I was like, I CANT STAY IN THIS CLASS! Its crazy that I only have class 3 days a week. But I think Thursday is going to be a homework/ study day. This week, we are meeting up to go over some verbs (ser, ester, ir, haber, y tener, in case anyone is interested) and hopefully some expressions. I think itll really help a lot.
Last week, I went to 2 musuems. One was dedicated to Sarmiento and the other just had some different Argentine art and history displays. The second musuem had this amazing garden, and we took a bunch of picutres. Speaking of pictures, Im not quite sure how to upload them here, but they are all of facebook. Ill be adding the pictures from the past week hopefully soon.
I had a really great weekend! Thursday night we went out (surprise surprise) and it was SOO much fun. We keep winding up at the same club, because it has 3 names. One night its Arroz, another its Lost and another its Mod. So we keep thinking we are going to a new place and always wind up there...
On Friday, Sarah and I went to Mar del Plata with Agustín, Adam, their friend Maxi (I hope I spelled that right...) and Adams family. It was so much fun!! We got there on Friday a little late and ate dinner (Adams mom is an amazing cook... I ate postes, which are like cake and pastries, with every meal of the day!) and then went out for a bit. On Saturday, we got up and played tennis. Now, those of you who know me are probably shocked by this. TENNIS!? But thats a sport! Well yes, but its rather similar to ice skating and all of those other activities... Im just as bad at it here as I was at home. I will say that I had a great time, and if I had to pick a sport to play, tennis is actually kind of fun! And I will say it brought back some rather fond memories of gym class. HA! Sara and I took their ATV to the beach (yes I rode on an ATV! Can you believe it? But I was too scared to drive, so I left that up to her...) and then I took a MILLION beach pictures and did a mini photo shoot on the big rocks leading out to the ocean. The weather was pretty cool, but it was a gorgeous day :)
After that, we had lunch and then went back to the beach. It was soo cold at this point but still great. I got some pictures of Agustín and Adam skim boarding. I would have tried it but I was so cold, there was no CHANCE I was even going to get in the water! We went and got churros after that, which was great. Because this is Argentina and they put dulce de leche in and on EVERYTHING, they also put it in the churros. (I could hear the Hallelujah choir when I ate them!)
We drove back to his house and I noticed something crazy... They were running red lights all the time! When I asked about it, I found out that during the winter (because its a beach town) there arent as many people there and it is illegal to run red lights!! We also passed a cop on a solid line and the cop.... MOVED OVER! Can you believe that?! Only in Argentina...
We went back and had dinner, ohh...
I should also mention that Adams family has a parrot named Pedro, who in all seriousness, speaks better Spanish than I do. At one point this weekend, I was like, ¨Crap! I cant believe this bird can use reflexive verbs and direct object pronouns!!!!¨ Of course he repeats everything, but still... Its funny to hear a bird speak Spanish!
So after dinner, we got ourselves together (I got to watch a bit of the Olympics which was neat)
and went out. It was a huge club that had 4 different rooms of different music. They do this thing at clubs where they start out with techno and lead into crappy American music. (And for those of you who dont know, I love crappy American music!!) So, we danced in the salsa/ raeggaton (did I even come close to spelling that right?) and then went to dance to ¨girls just wanna have fun¨and ¨i love rock and roll¨AAANND... ¨youre the one that I want¨(Yes from Grease, they play it EVERYWHERE!)
So on the way home, we got stopped (in a line behind a bunch of other people) for a random sobriety check. I wished I had my camera cause Ive never seen one before. They pulled over the most random people, too. This old lady was behind us, and she must have been 65 or 70! Adam blew a crazy 0.00... So they let us go. (But no photos from that... DARN!)
On Sunday, we came home... But first stopped to see this place near the sea where there were a TON of fisherman and .... SEA LIONS! Now that may not seem exciting, but have you ever seen one?? Its one of those things that you think you might have seen, but I dont know... Ive never seen one in real life before. They are very cute. BUT SMELL AWFUL!!! I got quite a few pictures of them :)
We had lunch at a seafood place where I tried fried seaweed (not bad) and took a picture of Sarah holding an octopus!! Crazy!
I hate to cut this short and leave out the top 5 again, but I have class in about 6 minutes... Next time, I promise.
Tomorrow, we are going to a place in Palermo to find out about doing some volunteering and then pretty much class and homework for the rest of the week.
I miss everyone a lot and hope all is well on the U.S. homefront!!!
Love,
Rebecca
Saturday, August 2, 2008
Sabado
Oh my goodness, is it Saturday already?! I cant believe I havent updated since Tuesday!
Ok, lets see. Well Wednesday, I went to the gym in the morning and had my Spanish grammar class in the afternoon. In the evening, I went to an after-work bar with Sarah, Anne, Adam and Agustin. FUN FUN! Free food never hurts anyone. Plus, I had my first experience with dolce de leche helado from Freddos! (Translation: Caramel ice cream from the best place EVER!) It was a ton of fun!
Thursday I went to the gym and went to my history class. Oh, school. Its really putting a damper on my style. LOL. I wound up getting a notebook to put together my notes which was really useful. I highlighted all of the dates, people, events and places I know nothing about so I can look it all up. I highlighted A LOT.
Yesterday I got up and went to the gym. (Sense a pattern? Although I like going cause it is close, plus I already paid for it, so its FREE! Who doesnt love stuff that you dont have to pay for?) I went to the movies yesterday and had my first experience with someone who was less than pleasant due to my language difficulties. In my defense though, we were seeing Kung Fu Panda. Even if I spoke no Spanish, I could still say ¨Kung Fu Panda¨and he could have given me a ticket. This older gentleman (he was pretty old, actually) was just waiting and waiting and then he looked at me and asked which movie. So I said, ¨Kung Fu Panda.¨He turned to the younger guy next to him, handed him his headset and told him to talk to me because I speak english. So I looked at the younger guy and said, ¨No no, I speak Spanish too. And I just want a ticket for the goddamn PANDA MOVIE!¨Ok, I made that last part up. Id never yell. But I did tell him I spoke Spanish and then asked for a ticket. And then the young guy said, ¨You know its in Spanish, right?¨Wait a second!? YOU MEAN IM IN SOUTH AMERICA AND ITS IN SPANISH!? So I smiled politely and said, ¨Yes I know.¨And then we went to the movie. REALLY. LOL. It was funny. But Kung Fu Panda was really cute, plus it was on our level of espanol.
After Panda, we went home and then met up at midnight. I went to Club Mod with Sarah, Katherine, Mike and Alex. It was a lot of fun. We ran into some people from out program there. Lots of Americans there last night. But it was great. They had this band up there for a little while and I kid you not when I say the lead singer was wearing a leopard print shirt, unbuttoned. And at one point, we was laying on the stage doing pelvic thrusting motions. I WAS DYING. It was like a train wreck. You didnt want to look at the 40 year old man sweating in leather pants while he humped the air, but you just couldnt help it. Friday maybe just made me crazy lol.
Today, we were going to go to some agriculture thing but didnt want to spend 13 pesos to see cows. Sooo, we went to get lunch and then walked around for a bit. I went to a book store today and got some books. YAY! Now, I can just relax and read for a bit.
Im kind of tired so I dont think I am going to go out tonight. Id also like to study a little vocab cause it helps so much with day to day things.
There is no top-5 today but the next top 5 will be my top 5 favorite quote from my friends on this trip so far. (THEY´RE FUNNY!)
Miss everyone lots.
Happy August!
Rebecca
Ok, lets see. Well Wednesday, I went to the gym in the morning and had my Spanish grammar class in the afternoon. In the evening, I went to an after-work bar with Sarah, Anne, Adam and Agustin. FUN FUN! Free food never hurts anyone. Plus, I had my first experience with dolce de leche helado from Freddos! (Translation: Caramel ice cream from the best place EVER!) It was a ton of fun!
Thursday I went to the gym and went to my history class. Oh, school. Its really putting a damper on my style. LOL. I wound up getting a notebook to put together my notes which was really useful. I highlighted all of the dates, people, events and places I know nothing about so I can look it all up. I highlighted A LOT.
Yesterday I got up and went to the gym. (Sense a pattern? Although I like going cause it is close, plus I already paid for it, so its FREE! Who doesnt love stuff that you dont have to pay for?) I went to the movies yesterday and had my first experience with someone who was less than pleasant due to my language difficulties. In my defense though, we were seeing Kung Fu Panda. Even if I spoke no Spanish, I could still say ¨Kung Fu Panda¨and he could have given me a ticket. This older gentleman (he was pretty old, actually) was just waiting and waiting and then he looked at me and asked which movie. So I said, ¨Kung Fu Panda.¨He turned to the younger guy next to him, handed him his headset and told him to talk to me because I speak english. So I looked at the younger guy and said, ¨No no, I speak Spanish too. And I just want a ticket for the goddamn PANDA MOVIE!¨Ok, I made that last part up. Id never yell. But I did tell him I spoke Spanish and then asked for a ticket. And then the young guy said, ¨You know its in Spanish, right?¨Wait a second!? YOU MEAN IM IN SOUTH AMERICA AND ITS IN SPANISH!? So I smiled politely and said, ¨Yes I know.¨And then we went to the movie. REALLY. LOL. It was funny. But Kung Fu Panda was really cute, plus it was on our level of espanol.
After Panda, we went home and then met up at midnight. I went to Club Mod with Sarah, Katherine, Mike and Alex. It was a lot of fun. We ran into some people from out program there. Lots of Americans there last night. But it was great. They had this band up there for a little while and I kid you not when I say the lead singer was wearing a leopard print shirt, unbuttoned. And at one point, we was laying on the stage doing pelvic thrusting motions. I WAS DYING. It was like a train wreck. You didnt want to look at the 40 year old man sweating in leather pants while he humped the air, but you just couldnt help it. Friday maybe just made me crazy lol.
Today, we were going to go to some agriculture thing but didnt want to spend 13 pesos to see cows. Sooo, we went to get lunch and then walked around for a bit. I went to a book store today and got some books. YAY! Now, I can just relax and read for a bit.
Im kind of tired so I dont think I am going to go out tonight. Id also like to study a little vocab cause it helps so much with day to day things.
There is no top-5 today but the next top 5 will be my top 5 favorite quote from my friends on this trip so far. (THEY´RE FUNNY!)
Miss everyone lots.
Happy August!
Rebecca
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Escuela
Oh my goodness!!
So, yesterday I had my very first class. It was the journalism one with other international students. GOOD LORD. They were all talking about what kind of journalists they wanted to be and I can barely speak their language. I feel like Im selling out but I think I am going to drop it. It is really difficult to understand, plus, I dont really know anything about journalism.
The next class was grammar and conversation which went really well. The professor is really sweet and we had a good first day. She introduced herself and we did one of the stupid but pretty helpful icebreaker exercises...
And then I went to my literature class. This man is LOCO!! He just randomly started talking about various points in HISTORY (not relating it to lit at ALL) and we were jumping from century to century like CRAZY!! 1492, 1917, 1776.... He was insane. And then hed be talking in Spanish really quickly and hed stop, point to some random person in class and yell, ¨YOU! COMMUNIST!¨And then he started yelling ¨MANZANA!¨(apple) and ¨VACA!¨(cow) and started making this crazy stabbing motion. INSANE...
(THE HONEYMOON IS OVER!!!)
We went out last night. Sarah, Anne and I went to a pub. We met up with a bunch of people from school and guess what?! Three of the seven people at our table were from Maryland! Can you believe it?? (I think were the only three on this trip who are from Maryland!!)
Today I got up and went to the gym and went grocery shopping. Grocery shopping here was crazy. They were SOOO busy! I wasnt sure that I even wanted to go, but its so much cheaper to buy stuff there and make your own lunch. (Especially cause we were out all weekend and last night... Not to mention were going out tonight... and tomorrow.... and Thursday.) So the deli counter was a bit scary. There was a dried pig leg just sort of chillin´out... So I was trying to figure out how much turkey I wanted... But I didnt really even see turkey. So I asked for tuna salad and he pointed at this mushy white stuff with peas. NO THANKS! I wound up getting (what I think was) chicken, egg and potato. I also got some bread to make some sandwiches and yogurt shakes, granola bars and cereal. You would not even imagine how my eyes lit up when I saw Frosted Flakes... I mean, Im not a huge fan of them at home, but here.... They are some good, normal comfort food.
So I had class at 3 today... I walk in and it´s... You guessed it!! The communist professor. And I made the mistake of telling him (he went around the room and asked) that I study Spanish and theatre. So at one point, he pulled me in front of the entire class and made me act out the part of some sailor on the way to South America... It was RIDICULOUS. lol
Then I went to a Culture and Tradition class. It seems like its going to be pretty interesting. I have one class tomorrow, which is grammar. And Thursday I have history. I am going to try to switch my schedule up and add tango dance.
I have to be honest, I have been kind of disappointed in my classes so far. In the U.S., you get a syllabus on the first day of class so you know what youre going to learn for the semester and the professor introduces themselves. Here, they just start talking about random historical dates and yelling ¨communist¨!!! Im really hoping things will get better in the next few weeks.
Sarah´s housemate, Jeff, was studying abroad last semester and is leaving on Saturday. He just got back from traveling around Bolivia for three weeks and I think we are going out with him tonight. Tomorrow we are going out, too... It is so crazy here!!!
Thats pretty much all that is new and exciting here. I hope everyone is doing well at home.
besos!
Rebecca
So, yesterday I had my very first class. It was the journalism one with other international students. GOOD LORD. They were all talking about what kind of journalists they wanted to be and I can barely speak their language. I feel like Im selling out but I think I am going to drop it. It is really difficult to understand, plus, I dont really know anything about journalism.
The next class was grammar and conversation which went really well. The professor is really sweet and we had a good first day. She introduced herself and we did one of the stupid but pretty helpful icebreaker exercises...
And then I went to my literature class. This man is LOCO!! He just randomly started talking about various points in HISTORY (not relating it to lit at ALL) and we were jumping from century to century like CRAZY!! 1492, 1917, 1776.... He was insane. And then hed be talking in Spanish really quickly and hed stop, point to some random person in class and yell, ¨YOU! COMMUNIST!¨And then he started yelling ¨MANZANA!¨(apple) and ¨VACA!¨(cow) and started making this crazy stabbing motion. INSANE...
(THE HONEYMOON IS OVER!!!)
We went out last night. Sarah, Anne and I went to a pub. We met up with a bunch of people from school and guess what?! Three of the seven people at our table were from Maryland! Can you believe it?? (I think were the only three on this trip who are from Maryland!!)
Today I got up and went to the gym and went grocery shopping. Grocery shopping here was crazy. They were SOOO busy! I wasnt sure that I even wanted to go, but its so much cheaper to buy stuff there and make your own lunch. (Especially cause we were out all weekend and last night... Not to mention were going out tonight... and tomorrow.... and Thursday.) So the deli counter was a bit scary. There was a dried pig leg just sort of chillin´out... So I was trying to figure out how much turkey I wanted... But I didnt really even see turkey. So I asked for tuna salad and he pointed at this mushy white stuff with peas. NO THANKS! I wound up getting (what I think was) chicken, egg and potato. I also got some bread to make some sandwiches and yogurt shakes, granola bars and cereal. You would not even imagine how my eyes lit up when I saw Frosted Flakes... I mean, Im not a huge fan of them at home, but here.... They are some good, normal comfort food.
So I had class at 3 today... I walk in and it´s... You guessed it!! The communist professor. And I made the mistake of telling him (he went around the room and asked) that I study Spanish and theatre. So at one point, he pulled me in front of the entire class and made me act out the part of some sailor on the way to South America... It was RIDICULOUS. lol
Then I went to a Culture and Tradition class. It seems like its going to be pretty interesting. I have one class tomorrow, which is grammar. And Thursday I have history. I am going to try to switch my schedule up and add tango dance.
I have to be honest, I have been kind of disappointed in my classes so far. In the U.S., you get a syllabus on the first day of class so you know what youre going to learn for the semester and the professor introduces themselves. Here, they just start talking about random historical dates and yelling ¨communist¨!!! Im really hoping things will get better in the next few weeks.
Sarah´s housemate, Jeff, was studying abroad last semester and is leaving on Saturday. He just got back from traveling around Bolivia for three weeks and I think we are going out with him tonight. Tomorrow we are going out, too... It is so crazy here!!!
Thats pretty much all that is new and exciting here. I hope everyone is doing well at home.
besos!
Rebecca
Sunday, July 27, 2008
Fin de Semana
Hola everyone!!
Wow! What a crazy few days it has been!! Let me just inform you of a little place I have found that I think resembles heaven. LOL. They are called the clubs of Buenos Aires. I went out on Friday night for Sarah´s birthday. We went to a club in Palermo with Anne, Katherine, Adam and Agustin. It was so much fun! I was dancing at 1 Am and I was still dancing at 6 Am. Things are so different here than there. And the clubs are way better than the bars cause you can dance and you dont have to drink. (Its EASY to stay up late.)
So this is funny because this was something I learned in Baltimore that I tried to use here. Sara, Trevor and Darius use this method when they are at the bars or clubs. If you are talking to someone who is weird or creepy and you need someone to help you out, you do step 1, which is discreetly tapping your fingers together. If no one sees that, or they ignore you, you form your hands into a turtle swimming and they know they better come rescue you. If you get to step 3, which is the turtle swimming backwards at a rapid-fire pace, your friends better come rescue you IMMEDIATELY or they´re not your friends anymore. I tried this system but it didnt work. The guys here are a bit more, lets say forward. So if you´re dancing with someone and you dont want to anymore, you make eye contact and someone comes to rescue you. If you snap, it means, ¨Get your ass over here right now so I dont have to dance with this creepster anymore!!¨ LOL, we dont get 3 steps in Buenos Aires. Its a bit easier also when you go out with guys cause if a guy talks to you, you just point to your friend and say, ¨Es mi novio.¨and they back off. Its nice having a pretend novio at the clubs. But the good thing here is that the guys dance so youre not forced to look for people. They just dance with you.
Other funny thing. They play a TON of Raeggaton (I think I butchered the spelling of that) which is great to dance to and a bit of American music too. But this weekend, they played the YMCA, the Twist and Material Girl.
Last night, just the girls went out and the music was even BETTER! I heard Man I feel like a Woman, Come on Over and (sit down... brace yourself) Wannabe. I was almost crying... AHHH! Spice Girls in a club in BsAs!? Life CLEARLY does not get better than this!!
We went to the mall today, but it was SOOO expensive so we left and went to this cool street market in Recoleta. Lots of fun.
School starts tomorrow so well see how that goes!!
Miss everyone lots,
Love,
Rebecca
P.S. I didnt get a ton of questions so here are the ones I have gotten...
Q: What time is it there?
A: We are one hour ahead of Eastern Time. So if you live on the East Coast and its 8am, its 9am here.
Q: Do you understand everything that they´re saying?
A: Absolutely not. Not even close. Maybe 30%. Sometimes my house Mom will talk to me and Ill say ¨Si¨and smile but will not understand one bit. It gets better every day but right now, it still takes some time to get used to.
Q: Are the Argentinian guys as good looking as you heard?
A: To be honest, there are about the same ratio of good looking guys here as at home. (So guys from the US, no worries... LOL)
Q: Does your host Mom have a car?
A: No, I walk A LOT. But thats a good thing cause its a great city. Plus, they have a million buses and the subte. (Subway)
Wow! What a crazy few days it has been!! Let me just inform you of a little place I have found that I think resembles heaven. LOL. They are called the clubs of Buenos Aires. I went out on Friday night for Sarah´s birthday. We went to a club in Palermo with Anne, Katherine, Adam and Agustin. It was so much fun! I was dancing at 1 Am and I was still dancing at 6 Am. Things are so different here than there. And the clubs are way better than the bars cause you can dance and you dont have to drink. (Its EASY to stay up late.)
So this is funny because this was something I learned in Baltimore that I tried to use here. Sara, Trevor and Darius use this method when they are at the bars or clubs. If you are talking to someone who is weird or creepy and you need someone to help you out, you do step 1, which is discreetly tapping your fingers together. If no one sees that, or they ignore you, you form your hands into a turtle swimming and they know they better come rescue you. If you get to step 3, which is the turtle swimming backwards at a rapid-fire pace, your friends better come rescue you IMMEDIATELY or they´re not your friends anymore. I tried this system but it didnt work. The guys here are a bit more, lets say forward. So if you´re dancing with someone and you dont want to anymore, you make eye contact and someone comes to rescue you. If you snap, it means, ¨Get your ass over here right now so I dont have to dance with this creepster anymore!!¨ LOL, we dont get 3 steps in Buenos Aires. Its a bit easier also when you go out with guys cause if a guy talks to you, you just point to your friend and say, ¨Es mi novio.¨and they back off. Its nice having a pretend novio at the clubs. But the good thing here is that the guys dance so youre not forced to look for people. They just dance with you.
Other funny thing. They play a TON of Raeggaton (I think I butchered the spelling of that) which is great to dance to and a bit of American music too. But this weekend, they played the YMCA, the Twist and Material Girl.
Last night, just the girls went out and the music was even BETTER! I heard Man I feel like a Woman, Come on Over and (sit down... brace yourself) Wannabe. I was almost crying... AHHH! Spice Girls in a club in BsAs!? Life CLEARLY does not get better than this!!
We went to the mall today, but it was SOOO expensive so we left and went to this cool street market in Recoleta. Lots of fun.
School starts tomorrow so well see how that goes!!
Miss everyone lots,
Love,
Rebecca
P.S. I didnt get a ton of questions so here are the ones I have gotten...
Q: What time is it there?
A: We are one hour ahead of Eastern Time. So if you live on the East Coast and its 8am, its 9am here.
Q: Do you understand everything that they´re saying?
A: Absolutely not. Not even close. Maybe 30%. Sometimes my house Mom will talk to me and Ill say ¨Si¨and smile but will not understand one bit. It gets better every day but right now, it still takes some time to get used to.
Q: Are the Argentinian guys as good looking as you heard?
A: To be honest, there are about the same ratio of good looking guys here as at home. (So guys from the US, no worries... LOL)
Q: Does your host Mom have a car?
A: No, I walk A LOT. But thats a good thing cause its a great city. Plus, they have a million buses and the subte. (Subway)
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