I had a full-ish week since I wrote last, I'm just trying to live up the rest of my time here by doing simple, important things...
On my history test, I made a NINE which was about 4 points higher than I had expected. I still am not sure about the culture test; on one project in there I made a 9. And then another one I made a 9 (but technically did not because now I have to do it over because...well, it's obnoxious but I understand). So hopefully I did okay on the actual parcial.
Lately I've been spending a lot of time speaking spanish with the natives between my family, my tutor, and a boy I met here (ooh). It's great practice, BUT (I don't remember if I said it before), I'm not going to be fluent by the time I return...I hope that's okay, haha.
On Friday, I went with some girls to the bus terminal to buy our tickets for the waterfalls (Iquazu). It's a 20 hour bus ride and guess how much our tickets are for "coche cama" (beds)?
$125 USD. Yeah, that's normally how much ONE way is, but there was a promotion with the company, so now we can put that other $125 towards food, hostels, and park entry tickets. After that, it was hard not to have a great day. We went to a beautiful palace that was converted into a modern art museum. Just about all of the art displayed was by Cordobes painters, and I was able to recognize a lot of the names because they are now street names here...haha, what great connections! After the art museum, we walked down a little while to this AMAZING church that we just went into and explored a teeny bit. Unfortunately, I didn't have my camera, but it's near that place called "Buen Pastor" that I mentioned in my last post, so I'll get photos later.
OMG this is important: I've been eating meat!
Okay, so not like steak and stuff...but I've tried chicken and on Friday night, one of the Japanese girls made sushi with tuna, so I ate that! Then on Saturday night, some girls and I went to our friends apartment and we cooked pasta primavera, chicken parmesan, brownies, and garlic bread. It was soooo delicious and I hadn't been THAT stuffed since I had chipotle last. [PS I miss Chipotle, my parents have already been informed to greet me at the airport with a veggie burrito bowl in hand. ]
Anyways, the dinner was a "buena onda" (good time) because a) sometimes I really miss cooking and b) it was relaxed and very home-like.
On Sunday, I made brownies (again!) for my family, because one of my sisters had yet to try the American recipe.
Then yesterday, I found Arg. box brownies in the grocery store, so I'll for sure be cooking those up sometime soon!
-Oh! I've been running again...sort of. I started on Thursday and went 10 min brisk walk, 5 min run, 15 min brisk walk. Friday I did 1o min brisk walk, 15 min jog, 10 min brisk walk, and then 5 min fast run. So basically I've had to start of REAL slow because a) the air here is thin, b) the air here is DIRTY, and c) I'm super duper out of shape.
I lost the one jacket I brought here, and now it's getting cold. This wouldn't be a problem at all except for the fact that I'm verging on broke, and "una campera" (jacket) will cost me at least USD$60. They're retarded expensive.
Still don't have a student visa...the process got really messed up when I left/returned to Arg. The technology here is not awful, but for some reason, our entrance still is not online and for that, they can't give us any credit. Which is fine, but it's just annoying that I've woken up at 5:30 on 4 different occasions to get it, and I still have had no luck. The last time was the best though...Lauren and I got sent to BORDER PATROL, and there we had to tell them basically to get their stuff together. They don't joke around at border patrol, if you can imagine.
Alright, so I'm going to go eat pizza and blue cheese dressing ( i taught my mom how to make it and she's O B S E S S E D ) so I'll blog later about the rest of my week (maybe). But for sure I'll have a blog post for after the walls...I CAN'T WAIT!
chau
PS look at this picture of my dog vacqui (like a cow)...she thinks MY bed is HERS.
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