This is SO WEIRD. I have 10 days left in Buenos Aires and 18 left in Argentina. Time is flying by so quickly and I can't stop it!!
Since it started becoming close to the end, I've been out and about in the city more and more and am getting less and less sleep. I just can't justify staying in and sleeping when I could be going out and exploring the city, meeting people, going to different bars / clubs, etc since I have so little time left. I've done a lot recently in terms of going to see everything in Buenos Aires that I have on my to do list but haven't yet got around to doing. It's definitely weird trying to plan out what my last days are going to be like; as of yesterday (sunday) I had alaready planned out what I was doing during the day most days this week and what I was doing at night from Wednesday to Saturday. I can't believe I have to start packing all my stuff in a week so that I'm all ready for when I get back from Patagonia to leave the country.
Besides from freaking out about leaving so soon, the past couple weeks have been really great. I've had a lot of finals in school so far, which I think have gone pretty well! I get back some of my grades this week so hopefully I'm right about that one. I have two oral presentations this week (and its the last week of classes!!) and then next week I have two papers due right before I leave on my trip. In one of my classes I found out I got really good grades on our first two assignments, but then found out that neither one of those grades actually counts. For a lot of classes here, the midterm grade is only so you can find out if you pass or not in order to take the final, and the final grade is the only grade for the entire class. I really don't like this system because it literally puts the entire weight of the class on just the final and all the midterms I've done well in basically mean nothing.
The weather here has gotten really nice!! It's in the 80's every day and sunny, and it's a really pleasant environment when it's so nice out! I've been laying out on my terrace and am getting a nice tan to return to the cold ass weather with. My two friends and I went on a bike ride the other day through the ecological reserve here, which was really nice and relaxing. I've been visiting more museums, famous streets and buildings, fairs, etc and have now almost completed everything on my to-do list.
I went to Creamfields Buenos Aires the other weekend, which was really fun! Creamfields is a worldwide electronic/house music festival, and they had 4 stages with tons of artists. David Guetta was the main artist to play, and when he was about to go on we got really close to the stage. Once he started, the crowd went so crazy that me and the girls I was with literally got lifted off our feet and taken it whatever direction the crowd was going. We couldn't move and it was really scary because we were literally sideways at some points. If someone had fallen down, they definitely would have gotten trampled by the crowd and died. We managed to fight our way out of there, which took a lot of time, and hung out around the outside of the crowd. In the craziness, me and 2 other girls each lost one of our shoes. We were all wearing sneakers, and it was so insane that they were taken off by the crowd craziness and there was no way we could go back to get them. We had to hop around the rest of the festival (for 5 more hours) without our shoes. At least I don't have to take them back to the US with me! Still overall a really fun night.
I'll probably only have one more blog post before I leave for my trip and then for back home. Craziness.
Que sé yo?
D
Monday, November 21, 2011
Monday, November 7, 2011
Day 129: Ocupada!
Since my last post, everything has gotten more hectic! My dad and grandmom came to visit, which was really fun! They rented an apartment for the week and we did all of the usual touristy things, and it was really good to see them. We went on the Buenos Aires bus tour, which was my first time doing it, and it was really cool to learn things about the city I've been living in for the past 4 months that I didn't know. We went to the rose garden which was completely bloomed and absolutely gorgeous.. I want to move there. Although last week I didn't go to a single class any day. Oops. Oh well, I haven't missed much class before that and I'm abroad so it's not the end of the world. It's weird thinking about the fact that they've came and left, because I remember telling people that they would be my last visit after Phil and my mom, and it felt like so far away. Now I have a month and two days until I go back to the U.S., which is soooo weird! I don't know where the time went.
It's going to be a really busy month and two days. All of my classes are actually starting to get legit; this week I have a presentation Wednesday and a test Friday. Next week I have two tests, and then the week after that is the last week of classes where I have papers and tests all week. My weekends are also getting really busy - this weekend I have a concert, next weekend we're going to the beach, and the weekend after that is my last weekend in Buenos Aires before I go to Patagonia for 10ish days. SO WEIRD.
Halloween was last weekend, which turned out to be as I expected. We went to a club where about 20% of the people were dressed up (including me!), 10% knew it was halloween, and the other 70% were completely confused about why everyone was in costume. We saw sporadic groups of kids or teenagers in costumes but no one trick or treated in the streets. I also picked up my visa last weekend! I thought it would be a card or something but it was two pieces of paper stapled together. How unexciting.
Andrea and I went to Punta del Este, Uruguay this weekend to go to the beach! It was really pretty, the entire town was really small and cute and quiet, which was a nice break from Buenos Aires. Since it was a really touristy area (more in the summer aka January and February), it was sooo expenisve! Eating at restaurants cost so much and the cabs were ridiculously expensive. To get there, we took an hour long ferry ride and then two 2-hour bus rides, which wasn't too bad. Our hostel ended up being a house owned by a young guy, his wife and their kid, which was really cool! We pretty much stayed in a Uruguayan homestay for the weekend. The people who owned the hostel were really nice and made us dinner one night, gave us alcohol to drink and were smoking weed nonstop all weekend. Very typical family haha.
We went to the beach both days and laid out, which was so relaxing. The hostel was a little far from the beach so we ended up hitchhiking back both days. (Don't worry family, hitchhiking is really safe in Punta del Este. I made it back both times!) We also went to the casino there which apparently was a really big deal and was actually the tiniest thing ever compared to the casinos in Vegas. But we won money both days! We went out on Friday night to a bar where the drinks were super expensive and made lots of friends. I told all the guys I talked to that I was from Italy so that they wouldn't speak to me in English (everyone there knew english) and it backfired when two different guys said things to me in Italian that I obviously didn't understand. Guess I'll have to do my research next time. But overall, a really fun time in Punta del Este!
Yesterday we went to Colonia from Punta del Este (through Montevideo, which seemed pretty nice!), and it was gorgeous. Colonia is a really old town and was full of cobblestones and old bridges and lighthouses. It had a lot of historic buildings and an artisan market, and the whole town was right on the water, just like Punta del Este. It was a really nice town and I could have definitely stayed there for longer.
Uruguay in general was a lot more like the U.S. / Europe than Buenos Aires is. In Punta del Este there were bowling alleys and go kart places, which don't usually exist in South America. Also, the buses we took had WiFi, which they haven't gotten around to doing in Buenos Aires yet. All of the buildings were really modern and the streets were really clean. Also all of the Uruguayan guys were really cute. Just saying.
Anyway, I guess I should start some of my jillion things to do instead of procrastinating by writing this blog post. Update soon!
Mira vos
D
It's going to be a really busy month and two days. All of my classes are actually starting to get legit; this week I have a presentation Wednesday and a test Friday. Next week I have two tests, and then the week after that is the last week of classes where I have papers and tests all week. My weekends are also getting really busy - this weekend I have a concert, next weekend we're going to the beach, and the weekend after that is my last weekend in Buenos Aires before I go to Patagonia for 10ish days. SO WEIRD.
Halloween was last weekend, which turned out to be as I expected. We went to a club where about 20% of the people were dressed up (including me!), 10% knew it was halloween, and the other 70% were completely confused about why everyone was in costume. We saw sporadic groups of kids or teenagers in costumes but no one trick or treated in the streets. I also picked up my visa last weekend! I thought it would be a card or something but it was two pieces of paper stapled together. How unexciting.
Andrea and I went to Punta del Este, Uruguay this weekend to go to the beach! It was really pretty, the entire town was really small and cute and quiet, which was a nice break from Buenos Aires. Since it was a really touristy area (more in the summer aka January and February), it was sooo expenisve! Eating at restaurants cost so much and the cabs were ridiculously expensive. To get there, we took an hour long ferry ride and then two 2-hour bus rides, which wasn't too bad. Our hostel ended up being a house owned by a young guy, his wife and their kid, which was really cool! We pretty much stayed in a Uruguayan homestay for the weekend. The people who owned the hostel were really nice and made us dinner one night, gave us alcohol to drink and were smoking weed nonstop all weekend. Very typical family haha.
We went to the beach both days and laid out, which was so relaxing. The hostel was a little far from the beach so we ended up hitchhiking back both days. (Don't worry family, hitchhiking is really safe in Punta del Este. I made it back both times!) We also went to the casino there which apparently was a really big deal and was actually the tiniest thing ever compared to the casinos in Vegas. But we won money both days! We went out on Friday night to a bar where the drinks were super expensive and made lots of friends. I told all the guys I talked to that I was from Italy so that they wouldn't speak to me in English (everyone there knew english) and it backfired when two different guys said things to me in Italian that I obviously didn't understand. Guess I'll have to do my research next time. But overall, a really fun time in Punta del Este!
Yesterday we went to Colonia from Punta del Este (through Montevideo, which seemed pretty nice!), and it was gorgeous. Colonia is a really old town and was full of cobblestones and old bridges and lighthouses. It had a lot of historic buildings and an artisan market, and the whole town was right on the water, just like Punta del Este. It was a really nice town and I could have definitely stayed there for longer.
Uruguay in general was a lot more like the U.S. / Europe than Buenos Aires is. In Punta del Este there were bowling alleys and go kart places, which don't usually exist in South America. Also, the buses we took had WiFi, which they haven't gotten around to doing in Buenos Aires yet. All of the buildings were really modern and the streets were really clean. Also all of the Uruguayan guys were really cute. Just saying.
Anyway, I guess I should start some of my jillion things to do instead of procrastinating by writing this blog post. Update soon!
Mira vos
D
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