http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Santa-Fe/Rosario/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from South America , Argentina , Santa Fe , Rosario en-us Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:31:20 BST Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:31:20 BST haha ok so I haven't updated in awhile...but nothing TOO exciting has been going on. Just school stuff during the week mostly...you know classes and such. Then the weekends pretty much just getting sun burned while laying out on my roof and then going out at night with my men hahaToday though was our Gaucho Party. For those of you who don't know gauchos wereare the cowboys of Argentina. We http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Argentina/Santa-Fe/Rosario/blog-332054.html Not much to say about during the day. Went to the Museum of Contemporary Artsclosed to the lsquoGarden for Kidsrsquo rides and showsclosed Pichincha area of noteyawn. The architecture is magnificent though and if we could stay longer we wouldrsquove. Therersquos a fair bit wersquod liked to have seen or done like taking the boat across to the Island or see the north of the ci http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Argentina/Santa-Fe/Rosario/blog-328207.html Dag 98. Vi maatte sjekke ut av rommet innen kl. 11 saa vi hadde mange timer aa slaa ihjel for bussen skulle gaa. Vi fikk oppbevare sekkene paa BB. Det er alltid slik de dagene vi skal reise videre til et nytt sted at vi mentalt allerede er paa vei. Da blir det paa en maate som om vi gaar og venter paa aa kunne komme oss videre.I dag gikk vi tur langs elven og satte oss paa en benk for aa sp http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Argentina/Santa-Fe/Rosario/blog-327651.html In Rosario now heaps to seehellipif you canrsquot get enough of monuments. Everywhere. Not enough memory on camera for them all. Very proud of their past. More in your face than at home I guess. Lots of night life here too be better as a young couple eager to go out at night. Even after a siesta wersquore keen to hit the sack at midnight just when things liven up. Dinner at 10 drinks af http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Argentina/Santa-Fe/Rosario/blog-326787.html Well another week gone by....I can't believe itClasses are going well. Things are coming together nicely...it's getting to be not so tough to understand. There are still a lot of words that I don't know in my history class...and half the time I dont really know what they mean in English either Politics and I don't really seem to get along lol.Thursday night we had a Tango Party. It was fu http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Argentina/Santa-Fe/Rosario/blog-325744.html Sitting on the bus to Rosario from Puerto Iguazu and finally writing again. NB if you need to take the bus on a long haul trip theyrsquore great but some are better than others. All show DVDrsquos and serve dinner etc. We first took Cuerco del Norte great. Wine with dinner and even champers later on. Now wersquore on Expreso Singer not so good especially if yoursquore 6rsquo or t http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Argentina/Santa-Fe/Rosario/blog-325709.html Dag 97. Etter frokost paa rommet gikk vi til bussterminalen for aa se om de hadde bussbilletter til Montevideo i Uruguay i morgen. Vi provde hos 2 ulike busselskaper men de hadde ikke avgang for paa sondag. Vi ble henvist til billettluken til Andesmar Uruguay. Der var det tomt med en lapp paa skranken om at de var tilbake om noen minutter. Vi ventet. Noen minutter ble til nesten en time for http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Argentina/Santa-Fe/Rosario/blog-325652.html Dag 96.Ahh har hatt en herlig natts sovn. Sengen var helt topp Frokosten ble servert paa rommet kaffete ferskpresset appelsinjuice toast og syltetoy. Vi gikk paa formiddagen lang tur oppover elven Rio Parana mot det moderne kaianlegget som ligger like for broen. Byen strekker seg 20 km. langs elven. Det virker som om det er mye baattrafikk paa elven ut fra det vi har sett. Vi snudde og gikk http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Argentina/Santa-Fe/Rosario/blog-325395.html Dag 95. Siden vi hadde lagt oss saapass tidlig i gaar var Eirik paa beina kl. 0730. Cecilia i resepsjonen kunne da fortelle han at det saa ut som 1530 baaten var innstilt og det var for seint aa naa den som gikk kl.0900. Da Jane vaaknet i halvnitiden diskuterte vi litt fram og tilbake om hva vi skulle gjore. Vi kunne vente til imorgen og ta baaten til Uruguay da eller sjekke ut av hostell http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Argentina/Santa-Fe/Rosario/blog-325094.html So this weekend was another wonderful time of lack of sleep and lots of funSaturday I went and did some shopping with a couple of other girls from the states and bought some of the stuff i was wishing i had with me and now i have it Then I was supposed to meet my friend at an art show in the park but she ended up getting sick so I went solo which was quite the adventure...safe no worrie http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Argentina/Santa-Fe/Rosario/blog-324087.html I've survived my first full week of classes yay I'm taking conversation grammer and history. The first 2 aren't bad but I am finding it difficult to understand my history prof...but i'll get it soon i'm sure I did my laundry the other day and I hung it out to dry but there is this nasty stuff in the air that just started the night i did my laundry of course and so now some of it smell http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Argentina/Santa-Fe/Rosario/blog-322946.html So everything is continuing to go just amazingly here I really feel that coming on this trip was the best decision of my life. Everything has just been really amazing and fun and eye opening and just perfect This weekend my brother took me out with his friends so now I have locals lol Saturday night we went to this very nice club...we got VIP cause one of his friends knows the bouncer http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Argentina/Santa-Fe/Rosario/blog-321786.html Just got back from traveling to Rosario Friday afternoon at 1 Taryn and I met at the Retiro train station to get on our omnibus. It took about 5 hours we got to our hostel a little bit after 6. It was called Che Pampas Hotel and it was amazing so clean really small chill staff included desayuno living room with dvd player patio with parillahelliphot We dropped off our stuff grabbed http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Argentina/Santa-Fe/Rosario/blog-321020.html Hey all...here are some pictures to kinda go with my last entry I just had some delightful hot chocolate.........oh my SOOO GOODYesterday we went on a boat on el Rio Parana and then had a walking tour through the city. There are also some pics of that on here...this entry has a lot sorry if it takes awhle to load http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Argentina/Santa-Fe/Rosario/blog-320558.html Im officially in Rosario now I arrived here after a 4hour bus ride from BA on Tuesday We spent the first night sociallizing and went out to a local hang out place. I got to chat up some locals and learn some new slang The next day we tested for our spanish levels and had orientation and then met our familySo my family is totally amazing. I live with my mom dad sister and brother. http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Argentina/Santa-Fe/Rosario/blog-319914.html Mandag den 21 juli RosarioAnkommer kl 8. Alle har sovet godt. Fr kaffe p stationen. Fr bestilt alt for mange tostadoer. Vi fr de overskydende pakket ind af den lille servitrice der forsger at foklare hvorfor det var blevet s dyrt 70 pesos.Taxa chauffrerne var meget sure og brokke sig over bde bagagens mngde og nogle af pengene som de pstod var falske. Til gengld var hotellet fart. http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Argentina/Santa-Fe/Rosario/blog-303807.html This was our first city stop in Argentina and our main thing here was to seek out the birth place of Che Guevara lolWell we found it and could not be more disappointed it just a block of apartments and a pole on the outside not for dancing withsaying birthplace of Che Guevara.However the city of Rosario is lovely there have fantastic architecture and lots of shopping woo hoo. There is a mass http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Argentina/Santa-Fe/Rosario/blog-298935.html We decided to stop in Rosario as the Lonely Planet described it as a miniature Buenos Aires it has lots of beautiful architecture and good nightlife to boot. Its also the birth place of Che Guevara so has its fair share of history too.We got there in the morning after another night spent on a bus this time however we had opted to pay the extra couple of pounds for cama seats which means bed http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Argentina/Santa-Fe/Rosario/blog-296766.html For the first 4 hours until the nearest major town on the bus from Puerto Iguazu to Santa Fe we were the only passengers which we thought was fab. Just us upstairs with the front seats and the two drivers chatting downstairs. They still put on the obligatory action film just for us but after we asked if the onboard drinks machine did coffee we were promptly handed two cups of thick tar coffee wh http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Argentina/Santa-Fe/Rosario/blog-280435.html Regarding the fancypants buses of South America we booked into a cama from Cordoba to Rosario as we have been assured that they are vastly superior to the semicama which in turn is vastly superior to any bus Id ever been on before Chile and Argentina. But I guess I'm a classy bird with a taste for comfort and so for this trip we booked cama.Unfortunately despite our seats ability to recline http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Argentina/Santa-Fe/Rosario/blog-274313.html Well....I havent written in a while because Ive been super busy and things have just been rushing by. Ill try to remember all that happened but its going to be hard. This last weekend was a fun one even though it was pretty mellow. On thurday night I met up with Ian from one of the previous programs and we went to a Metal Show which was kinda funny. It was a bunch of Argentines who were all http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Argentina/Santa-Fe/Rosario/blog-264742.html Its hard to remember where I left off due to the difference in time that I post things up and when I actually write them. Ill try to start back up with where I left off. On saturday night I was told by my host mom that it was important for me to go out and dance since it was saturday. Apparently everyone elses parents here told them the same thing so a group of 5 of us decided we were going http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Argentina/Santa-Fe/Rosario/blog-262024.html Believe it or not but things are getting better here. Its getting way easier to understand the accents that people are using and it doesnt just sound like complete jibberish anymore. Conversations are coming along well with my host mom who Im sorry to say still doesnt speak any english. She will tell me something and I will sort of understand and get the general idea but then she keeps telling http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Argentina/Santa-Fe/Rosario/blog-261668.html When we went out I felt a little better and we pointed at things and tried to talk and made it a little farther in understanding each other.....she says it will be easier to understand and speak to her in one weeks time so im gonna trust her on that one. She took me to a shop down the street that sold phone card things for cell phones and she gave me an extra cell phone she had and I put 20 pesos http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Argentina/Santa-Fe/Rosario/blog-260388.html I really honestly have no idea where to start when writing this. Coming to Argentina and Rosario has been the most whirlwind experience of my life. For the past day or so I have been going through ups and downs and ups and downs of being super happy to be here and then being like...what the hell have I gotten myself into... I guess I have to start from the beginning. Since I last wrote I got on http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Argentina/Santa-Fe/Rosario/blog-260387.html Well....This morning proved to be an interesting one. The usual get up early head to the airport and deal with their shit for the next hour. Apparently according to the Airline attendant I need proof that Im staying in Argentina for less than 90 days or I need to change my ticket so that I will be gone exactly 90 days. Of course before she offers me this option she tries to get me to buy a p http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Argentina/Santa-Fe/Rosario/blog-259295.html Eng ver belowOd 2 dni jestem w Rosario. Postanowilam sie przeniesc z hostelu do namiotu. Roznica w cenie jest 34 krotna wiec warto. Poza tym kamping jest pieknie polozony poza miastem nad rzeka Parana spokoj cisza tylko lazienki jak z Transpottingu.Rosario jest 3 miastem pod wzgledem liczby mieszkancow w Argentynie po Buenos i Cordobie. Urodzil sie tu jeden z najbardziej znanych Argentynczy http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Argentina/Santa-Fe/Rosario/blog-249642.html Just a few photos. Sarahs photos coming soon. http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Argentina/Santa-Fe/Rosario/blog-248021.html In total we spent about 5 days in Buenos Aires not enough time but we got to see a few of the places around the city. We went to Recoleta and visited the massive graveyard there. It is were Eva Peron and bunch of other ridiculously rich people are buried. The graves are mad its like a town. After that we ventured to the Zoo... one of the worst zoos ever. There were enclosures that didnt have an http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Argentina/Santa-Fe/Rosario/blog-225354.html Arrived late afternoon in the third largest city in Argentina about a million people for the statistics buffs out there. Managed to negotiate the purchase of a local bus pass bit like an Oyster card and can recommend the tourist office at the bus terminal give out a good map of the city and lots of advice probably even more useful if you can really speak Spanish. A quick bus trip into the http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Argentina/Santa-Fe/Rosario/blog-218563.html