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buenos aires is amazingg!!!

i got here on monday at about noon. i live in a house in almagro. when i goth ere only the cleaning lady was here and made me delicious spaghetti and showed me to my huge room with my own baño and hallway. i live with two host padres and their kids maite who is a 5 year old girl and iñeqi who is a 9 year old boy. the food is yummmyyy except the polenta here is gross. saturday we went to l'ecole on thames and costa rica in palermo soho and spent ~12 american dollars per person (5 of us) for 2 bottles of wine, appetizer, dinner, and dessert that was amazing. friday we went to 878 which was a former speakeasy and now a really swanky lounge that just looks like a house from the outside. then we went to amerika which was absolutely crazy....open bar, drag show at 4:30 am, it was intense. last night we went to basement which was lame all they played was house music and then we went to glam which was not as good as amerika. people here party til like 6 or 7 am which i'm not used to at all.

orientation is really really boring, a lot of pointless info about safety and living with your host family stuff. we had our first assignment for castellano class which was to take 10 photos - texture, time, tension, sound, smell, graffiti, blue, heat, social panorama, blackboard....really random stuff but denitza and i went to san telmo to look at the market and we took a bunch of pictures. i LOVE palermo soho apparently its based on the soho in london not new york but its still amazing. over the weekend a bunch of argentine designers had their stuff out on the streets and in bars and restaurants, but i didn't buy anything.

im trying a lot of stuff... surprisingly i don't like dulce de leche, it's wayyy too sweet for me. they have these things that i just call naranjitas cause i can never recall the name, they're oranges the size of cherry tomatos that you pop in your mouth skin and all and they're veryyy sour they're delish. dessert always has a fruit incorporated into it...meals rarely have veggies but sometimes they're all carb no meat...like the gross polenta and this lasagna type thing with a white sauce and no meat.

shopping is really really amazing here but i haven't gotten anything yet. i thought it would be easy not to spend money but we have to go out for lunch every day, a cafe here and there, riding the colectivo (bus) and subte (subway), so it's actually not that easy.

not much else...orientation is really long and boring so i'm usually really tired at the end of everyday and go to bed at 10 or 11 before the 5 year old girl haha. it's really difficult listening to castellano all day and then coming home and speaking it with the family it takes a lot of energy...dinners now...more updates to come!

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