Hello everyone! I hope all is well in the States (cold probably...it's SO hot here). So, Saturday night Dan had to work so I went and hung out at the bar while he worked. I had some really interesting conversations with funny drunk teenagers, and it was really fun. Dan is a real bartender! It's so cool! The bar is really nice and the people are too. At about 10:30 I went upstairs to sleep. Dan had to work until 4, but I had been awake for about 36 hours so I finally just passed out. I slept for about 15 hours and it was beautiful. Yesterday we went to this cool flee market type thing that happens on Sundays. Basically this whole street turns into a place where people sell all sorts of cool stuff and there is a ton of live music and tango dancing. We wanted to find a tango class, but ended up finding out about a lindy dance that happens Sunday nights. The dance ended up being really fun...there are a lot of good dancers here. Dan's dancing is rocckinn. Also, Juan and Emily were there. Juan lives in Buenos Aires, but travels and teaches. We had met him in Baltimore (I danced with him a ton of times and it was aweesomme). Emily lives in Pittsburgh (I think...or Philly?) and I hadn't seen her since Beantown.
After dancing so much in gross humidity we took the bus back and got some food downstairs. Oh! I have been eating meat. Crazy, I know. I thought about it before coming down here because a lot of people told me it would be hard to not eat meat and that it's really good. So for this week, I am eating meat.
Now it is almost 1 in the afternoon and I am partially freaking out because I haven't done my homework yet. Today is homework doing day. I hope all is well with everyone...I am really glad I came here.
Sarah
Monday, November 3, 2008
Saturday, November 1, 2008
Buenos Aires!
¡Hola! I decided to get this blog that I had never posted on up and going. I am in Buenos Aires! For those of you that don't know, last Sunday I finally booked a ticket to Buenos Aires to visit Dan (after lots of decision making difficulties). I'm here for a week, and yes I am skipping school. I talked to all my professors ahead of time, though, and skipping school does definitely not mean skipping out on the work (unfortunately).
I left from Baltimore yesterday around 2:45, stopped in Atlanta, and then took an over night 10 hour flight to Buenos Aires. It wasn't too bad, but I didn't sleep more than about 20 minutes, and other than the kind of nap I just took, I still haven't really slept since around 9 am yesterday. On the plane I sat next to a pretty awesome kid (probably like 18ish) named Gidion (it's pronounce with difficult Dutch tones), who is from Holland. He was really cool and he might come hang out with us this week. I was pretty proud of making a friend before I got here.
When we arrived Gidion and I departed to customs and everything together, and then parted ways and I went to get money/rent a phone/find a cab. I managed to do all of this without getting ripped off or into any kind of trouble. The taxi took me to Dan's apartment where he was waiting. It is SO good to be here. It's not at all what I expected (I guess there is more poverty than I expected...I don't know why I didn't expect that though), but it's just really nice to be with Dan. We settled into the hostel that is above the bar Dan works at. It's pretty interesting...I really like it so far (except for the locks are old and we accidentally locked ourselves into my room for like 25 minutes while messing with it). After settling in we went and met his host family for lunch at their apartment. It's nice, and so are they, but my Spanish has gotten so bad. We have started having Spanish lessons while walking around, so hopefully I'll be in good shape by Tuesday or so.
Other than that, we walked to this amazing old cemetery and looked at some shops. Then FINALLY took a nap. Tonight Dan has to work, but the pretty great thing is that I don't have to worry because I can hang out as long as I want and then go upstairs to bed. Tomorrow night there is a tango class that we are probably going to go too.
I miss you all!
I left from Baltimore yesterday around 2:45, stopped in Atlanta, and then took an over night 10 hour flight to Buenos Aires. It wasn't too bad, but I didn't sleep more than about 20 minutes, and other than the kind of nap I just took, I still haven't really slept since around 9 am yesterday. On the plane I sat next to a pretty awesome kid (probably like 18ish) named Gidion (it's pronounce with difficult Dutch tones), who is from Holland. He was really cool and he might come hang out with us this week. I was pretty proud of making a friend before I got here.
When we arrived Gidion and I departed to customs and everything together, and then parted ways and I went to get money/rent a phone/find a cab. I managed to do all of this without getting ripped off or into any kind of trouble. The taxi took me to Dan's apartment where he was waiting. It is SO good to be here. It's not at all what I expected (I guess there is more poverty than I expected...I don't know why I didn't expect that though), but it's just really nice to be with Dan. We settled into the hostel that is above the bar Dan works at. It's pretty interesting...I really like it so far (except for the locks are old and we accidentally locked ourselves into my room for like 25 minutes while messing with it). After settling in we went and met his host family for lunch at their apartment. It's nice, and so are they, but my Spanish has gotten so bad. We have started having Spanish lessons while walking around, so hopefully I'll be in good shape by Tuesday or so.
Other than that, we walked to this amazing old cemetery and looked at some shops. Then FINALLY took a nap. Tonight Dan has to work, but the pretty great thing is that I don't have to worry because I can hang out as long as I want and then go upstairs to bed. Tomorrow night there is a tango class that we are probably going to go too.
I miss you all!
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