School Friday wasnt too bad. I didnt have to show up till 2:00 so that wasnt so bad. Had a nice lecture about speaking in Spanish and not spending too much time talking to people at home - both of which im breaking right now haha. We learned some more history, but to me the take away message was "Argentina is not a law abiding country". That difference in culture was really interesting to the class because both the US and Japan are pretty much law abiding countries. Don't worry, I will continue to follow the law because, if Argentines are not generally law abiding, I don't want to see who they have too put in their jails :)
Then in Spanish class we made posters, flash back to middle school. It was fun making up a tour of the country and a collage to advertise it.
Friday night I went to the birthday party of a local: Fede. It was an awesome party! I liked seeing how they celebrate birthdays here. Also, there were a lot of US students there so my witnessing the culture was diluted with some great US hits like Thrift Shop and The Bad Touch and then we demonstrated the Wobble. And then they showed us their favorite songs from here and how to dance in an Argentina appropriate way. I went home around like 3:30. Krysten's host brother drove us home which was really nice, and so I got to experience how someone our age here drives. Luckily at 4 am there weren't many people on the road, everyone was still out partying.
Saturday when I woke up, after lunch, I did my homework. I was pretty proud of myself for that. Though I still have to ask my host family about a few things that I didn't understand. Having class on Saturday at 7pm was something different. We met downtown to visit the Art Vendors area but they gave us papers to fill out so I felt like even more of a tourist. Then we all went out together for dinner at a pizza bar where it took them like 2 hours to bring me a salad so that was different. And then it was a warm salad of mostly raw onions. But I had a great time talking about cultural differences with the Japanese and Brazilian students. We learned some interesting hand gestures as well as read an Argentina slang dictionary.
After the bar I was still quite hungry so I bought fries and ice cream for dinner. It was soooo good though. The ice cream ended up being half Dulce de Leche and half Chocolate which was an excellent surprise. Im pretty sure I worked of those calories later though. Ryan and I walked to meet some friends that he met here. And then we went to a boliche which was AMAZING. I had such a good time at that boliche, it was unlike anything I've seen in my live and its pretty much just indescribable. So we all had a pretty good time there from 1am till 6am when the lights come on. And then it was pouring rain outside, and the streets were very full of water so I got very soaked pretty quickly, and it didnt help that cars kept driving by and splashing us by hitting the puddles. I felt like I was in a movie with the wave of water coming towards me. The bus never came so we just walked back to the center and made it by like 7:30 am. We found our bus back and I was back in the house here by like 8:30 am, I was very glad that Betty was not up yet. I was not quite ready to explain in Spanish my appearance - dancing for 5 hours and then walking home in the rain. But after a few hours of sleep I'm up and ready to go again. Not really, all I'm going to do today will be finish homework, eat, shower, and sleep. I have to be ready for dance class and university tomorrow! I'm excited for it.
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