Primer clase

First day of classes! But first food, luckily I woke up in time for breakfast this morning. I am not going to get tired of fresh squeezed orange juice, homemade yogurt, and cornflakes for breakfast anytime soon.

Oh and I forgot from dinner last night, I had a nice steak and vegetables for dinner, and then for dessert... they asked me if I would like to try something tradicional y local and I was like sure. So they give me this desert and make sure I know I have to eat it together, but it is a piece of salty, soft cheese under a piece of what I think is candy sweet potato. It was strange, it was one of those things that was good once but not something I would pick again. 

Queso y batata dulce

It went well for the most part. The movie we watched, "La Mision", was a very long movie, actually in English not that it mattered because there wasnt much speaking, and they put on Spanish subtitles so we could practice, and for the international students that dont speak English. It was about the Jesuit influence among the natives in the Iguazu falls region. And then at the end, warning Im going to ruin the movie, everyone from the movie who you liked died, actually just pretty much everyone died. So I guess its at least historically accurate, but not a great way to start school.

For lunch today with my little packed lunch (which I found out there was a microwave) and we all ate at the little cafeteria tables in a row. I could have been back in middle school, except without the girl/boy segregation haha.

Our first culture class was so long too, especially since it was that after lunch class. Though, I realized that was my first class in which the instructor talked solely in Spanish for the entire hour and a half, so that was an accomplishment for me - I got through a class all in Spanish  The language class went by much quicker, I think its going to be a good level for me too. It started out easy today but it will definitely get more difficult. Also, now I feel a bit better about my use of formal and informal, though I'm sure it will still be a struggle for me.

After school, I finally made it to a supermarket, which here are called DISCO. I laughed to myself every time I said I was going to the disco. But, it was so cool there. So first, we walk in, and I manage to pick a card with a wheel that doesn't really work very well, and then someone comes over before we go in and I think she is offering us bags to carry our stuff in because they didnt have any baskets, but instead she wanted us to put our backpacks in the bag. And then they didnt fit, so she just let us keep them. It was an interesting exchange. The store wasnt that big, but it was cool to look around. I was surprised at their variety of shampoos and conditioners and soaps (which is what I went for), and then they had some aisles dedicated to things that we probably wouldn't have had. For example, there was an entire aisle dedicated to crackers and toasts, another to salt and oil. And of course I took lots of pictures from the grocery store.

El Disco

This one I just couldn't believe, if you look closely, on the right is baby food and on the left is honey.  I was very appalled at this stocking plan to say the very least. 

This is a whole section of loose tea leaves called Yerba which are used for making Mate, which is the traditional drink here. I thought it was funny they were packaged in what I think of as flour and sugar bags. 

Ryan was very amused by the name of this candy. I will admit, I was too. 

Some nice bags of milk, and they had a lot of kinds of milk, but there was no soy milk anywhere :(

And while waiting for the bus, I'm sure I looked like an idiot, but I was wondering what is able to grow on a power line? They looked like sea urchins to me but they were surrounding the power lines. 

And I still forgot to take a picture of the buses, tomorrow, when I have to get up early to take one to the center; I will try to remember to take a picture.