Ok, so...this blog entry is not going to be very happy. If you want to read something super cheery, I suggest you look elsewhere. I'm pissed tonight for a number of reasons. First I'll tell you the bad, then the good. First of all, I lost my cell phone in a taxi today. I don't know how because I'm usually so good with that kind of stuff, but I don't know...it was raining, we were kinda confused, etc. So there's my 100 dollar deposit, gone, plus the cost of a new phone AND I had about 60 pesos worth of talk [View Full Entry]

---

---

Yesterday was one of the hottest days I ever experienced in my life. It was like Pittsburgh can get in August...except instead of cloudy humidity, it's SUNNY SUNNY humidity. Oh my god, it was awful. I swear I almost died on the subte. They actually let people use the common room last night because it was so hot, and this is the only room with air. But today is a new day...it is thundering, cloudy, and rainy. The kind of weather I realized I love?? Perhaps I just miss good ol' crappy weather. It has cooled down dramatically since last night. [View Full Entry]

---

---

Hola todos! Yesterday Cosi and I went to my first tango lesson! It was so hard, but if I learn well, it's going to be so cool. Our teacher is absolutely beautiful. Her body is so perfect and tall and graceful. She is a very good instructor too. Mostly she spoke in spanish, but there was one guy there that only spoke english, so it was a mix of veryyyyyy broken english and spanish. I was wearing flats because I don't have any tango shoes yet...and I realized that if I want to learn, I need to buy tango shoes! The [View Full Entry]

---

---

So things are a little different here on the other side of the equator. We don't eat dinner until about 9 or 10. We don't go out until very late also. Tonight I went out to sushi with like 8 other people in a smaller barrio a taxi ride away. It was really great...we spent a little too much money, but it was well worth it. We were probably the biggest spending customers in awhile because it was such a small place, so they gave us some free food "para probar." They sell beer in larger bottles than we have in [View Full Entry]

---

---

Hola todos! Today we ventured out to Palermo, which is a more upscale district in Argentina...sort of like SoHo in New York, but not quite that nice. Some things to note about Argentina...small, but funny differences. The door keys look different. They have like bubbles on the sides of them instead of notches. They have trash cans on the streets, but they are super tiny...like the size of the trash cans in the bathroom! But they are hung on street lamps or poles. The prices here are exact...none of that 25.95 bullshit. They have a shortage of coins here, so it's [View Full Entry]

---

---

Well, after two days of delayed/canceled flights, I have finally arrived! The flight was long, but fine, since I slept most of the way. When I got off the plane, it was immediately so hot! The weather here is the exact opposite of Pittsburgh right now...it's sunny and really hot and really humid. I was sweating from the minute I got off the plane til I finally got to my building and took a cold shower. The drive to my building was cool...I got to see the area a little bit outside the city and then driving into the city was [View Full Entry]

---

---

So, I know I said the next time I blogged would be when I got there, but I'm packing right now and just having all these feelings about leaving that I wanted to record. I'm feeling a bit sad about leaving! Lee is coming home from his foot surgery as we speak and I feel bad about leaving while he's stuck bedridden for the next week. Lily is still so small, but she's growing bigger everyday, and when I get back she will be HUGE! Cali sleeps with me every night and I wonder what she will think when I'm no [View Full Entry]

---

---

I'm leaving for Buenos Aires in a week! I can't believe it's finally here. No, really, I am in such disbelief that I think I am extremely unprepared. I still have to drop off papers at the study abroad office. But they're finished at least. I have vaccines, I have prescription drugs, I have lots of contact lenses, I have money, and I have enough spanish to get through the day. I guess I'm ready then. I have never been away from home for this long, though. I am very nervous about that. I don't know yet what classes I will [View Full Entry]

---

---