En Cordoba, finalmente

Well I did finally make it. Ryan (the other Clemson student I met in Santiago) and I made it through customs only 4 hours late. It was a long wait. But I am happy to be here. This city is so big compared to what I'm used to. I am no where close to used to 2 million people in a city. As the plane was landing in Cordoba, it took a 360 before landing so I got to see most of the city from an air view.

The Andes

Ryan not knocking over the extra long fire extinguisher

On the drive to my new residence I did get to see a bit more. I cant wait to explore some tomorrow during daylight hours. But I was just not ready to go out tonight with a bunch of students, I just needed a shower, some dinner, and now I am pretty much ready for bed. But before I crawl into my bed, I thought I would share a bit about whose here. So Betty, my host, is very nice and very accommodating which is wonderful. Adriana, her daughter, is also living here and she is really friendly and wants to practice her English with me, I just have to be sure I am practicing enough Spanish while here though, I don't want to end up relying on English too much. And her daughter, whose name I cannot understand in the slightest is 15 months and absolutely adorable (and she is still up and its nearly midnight here, they just live a different schedule here).

Adriana y su bebe

Dinner was excellent; it was exactly what I hoped food here would be like. We had pan fried pork, rice with eggplant, and an interesting potato dish with tomatoes and carrots and onions. It was healthy, and filling, and most importantly, gluten free :)

I have my own little room with some shelves and a closet, and I have even put half my stuff away already! I keep second guessing myself with the water taps, since they say C and F which is calor and frio but I see C and think cold but im used to cold on the right and hot on the left, but the water taps in this house are just whatever the water feels like doing, sometimes its hot, sometimes its cold when you turn the right tap. Which made my shower very interesting haha.

And now I'm going to bed to the sound and smell of a late summer thunderstorm. (Oh, and I'm LOVING the heat)