, then Montevideo, Urugauy ( sorry formatting is horrible!)
School has been eating up a lot of my time these past few weeks. I'm happy that orientaion from IFSA is over though, it was really tedious, and seemed like we were trapped inside all day when all I wanted to do was explore the city.
I'm in a period of 'shopping' in which the extranjeros-foreighners- are allowed to test out as many classes from the 4 different universities as they wish. So far I really like my 1 class called Cuentos Latinoamericana Contemporanea. It's quite interesting and I really like the teacher, although a lot of reading. It also satisfies a lot of reqs from UofI. I am also planning on taking a marketing class, a required Castellano class, a geography or psychology class (which is also pretty interesting, like the teacher, but a lot of reading), and either a International biz class-if some1 would help me find it- or a history of tango class.
Which by the way, this past monday, I went to my 1st tango class! It was really fun, a little frustrating, and a bit close. The dance is all about 'getting into someone's space and getting there without knocking them over', more or less.
Urugauy was great! If I could describe it in one word- tranquilo- it was filled with mate, smokers of all sorts, and amazingly good looking people. Everyone we met there was extremely nice, and willing to help you out. We arrived early Friday morning by ferry/then bus. We spent Friday walking around ciudad viejo (old city), walking the Rambla-bay area-, checking out the centro and all the plazas. I tried a Chivito for dinner- Uruguayan steak or chicken sandwiches- that are really yummy. We met up with Tanya, a CS that night and went to one of the popular bars in the area. We then retired to the Art Hostel we found earlier in the day to chat with everyone there (Oso-from Hawaii, Veruta-Uruguayo, X-Uruguayo, David-Chilean, Patricia and Dueno-owners, John-chicago, and some people from Germany, and Argentine, a Brazilian. On Saturday we were told to take a bus an hour away to go to a gorgeous beach in Penar. It was worth the drive, this beach was extremely secluded by sand dunes and beautiful trees, and a great place to spend the entire afternoon. We then met with another CS name Juan. We went to a going away party of his (he's going to travel the world for 9 months) and then went to a boliche. It was nice meeting all his friends and expereincing a party Uruguayo style. The boliche was a blast too, great music and fun dancing. They play cumbia, reggaeton, and some techno. While waiting for our bus home in the morning we met Leonardo, this intriguing Uruguayo who helped us find our way home and had a great convo with us about Uruguayo ways, foreigners, traveling, and philosophy...
Sunday we woke up late, considering we didn't go to bed until 8am. We went with Oso, Veruta, and Dueno (who all btw work at the hostel) to an enormous ferria (fair/market). Where there were streets upon streets of anything you can imagine buying. From toilet seats to tvs to pop (popcorn). I found most of the stuff junk, but people were actually buying things. I ended up buying a bananna to munch on. Ha! For dinner we had an asado-we were invited by the hostel. It was great food, and the preperation was even better. They, as well as many in Montevideo, don't have a backyard, a grill, or any way to make a bbq, so they do it in the streets. They light a fire and move the embers with a stick under a grate where the meat is. When the meat is done, they cut it on a large cutting board for all to eat with thier forks. We all looked like vultures piercing the meat with our forks. It was delish! We then headed back to BA, which we were all exhausted from a great weekend in Montevideo.
We met back up with Juan and Ivan, and their friends to see one of their friend's sing at a bar. Her name was Nadia, really sweet girl who sings well. This was a fun night full of conversation and new people, and of course castellano.
Last week Nora and I headed to the Recoleta cemetery where the graves of Juan and Eva Peron are. See pics! It was really peacefull here, and all the graves were amazing to look at and read.
My birthday was a load of fun! We spent the day at a ferria in Recoleta with Ezequiel and we then headed over to his friend's home and celebrated 3 birthdays at once (Ezequiels, his friends', and mine). We had hamburgers for dinner, and were served an amazing homemade chocolate tart cake. MMm... It was really nice to be sang happy birthday in Spanish (3 times) on my special day. Everyone there was really sweet, and we had many good conversations, all while practicing my Castellano. Claro!(of course). At 2am we headed to my 1st boliche and had a lot of fun dancing and singing until 7am! It was a great bday.
Wednesdays are 1/2 off for cinemas, so we headed to see some interesting movie with Heath Leddger and Jude Law. The movie was really trippy, but I enjoyed it. It was called somehthing imagination. it was in English, but it was still fun to go to a cinema here. We went with Zac (an american whose been studying here for 8 months), Lucas, Federico, and some other of their friends. We met them through Bex (our awesome American IFSA friend).
I'm in a period of 'shopping' in which the extranjeros-foreighners- are allowed to test out as many classes from the 4 different universities as they wish. So far I really like my 1 class called Cuentos Latinoamericana Contemporanea. It's quite interesting and I really like the teacher, although a lot of reading. It also satisfies a lot of reqs from UofI. I am also planning on taking a marketing class, a required Castellano class, a geography or psychology class (which is also pretty interesting, like the teacher, but a lot of reading), and either a International biz class-if some1 would help me find it- or a history of tango class.
Which by the way, this past monday, I went to my 1st tango class! It was really fun, a little frustrating, and a bit close. The dance is all about 'getting into someone's space and getting there without knocking them over', more or less.
Urugauy was great! If I could describe it in one word- tranquilo- it was filled with mate, smokers of all sorts, and amazingly good looking people. Everyone we met there was extremely nice, and willing to help you out. We arrived early Friday morning by ferry/then bus. We spent Friday walking around ciudad viejo (old city), walking the Rambla-bay area-, checking out the centro and all the plazas. I tried a Chivito for dinner- Uruguayan steak or chicken sandwiches- that are really yummy. We met up with Tanya, a CS that night and went to one of the popular bars in the area. We then retired to the Art Hostel we found earlier in the day to chat with everyone there (Oso-from Hawaii, Veruta-Uruguayo, X-Uruguayo, David-Chilean, Patricia and Dueno-owners, John-chicago, and some people from Germany, and Argentine, a Brazilian. On Saturday we were told to take a bus an hour away to go to a gorgeous beach in Penar. It was worth the drive, this beach was extremely secluded by sand dunes and beautiful trees, and a great place to spend the entire afternoon. We then met with another CS name Juan. We went to a going away party of his (he's going to travel the world for 9 months) and then went to a boliche. It was nice meeting all his friends and expereincing a party Uruguayo style. The boliche was a blast too, great music and fun dancing. They play cumbia, reggaeton, and some techno. While waiting for our bus home in the morning we met Leonardo, this intriguing Uruguayo who helped us find our way home and had a great convo with us about Uruguayo ways, foreigners, traveling, and philosophy...
Sunday we woke up late, considering we didn't go to bed until 8am. We went with Oso, Veruta, and Dueno (who all btw work at the hostel) to an enormous ferria (fair/market). Where there were streets upon streets of anything you can imagine buying. From toilet seats to tvs to pop (popcorn). I found most of the stuff junk, but people were actually buying things. I ended up buying a bananna to munch on. Ha! For dinner we had an asado-we were invited by the hostel. It was great food, and the preperation was even better. They, as well as many in Montevideo, don't have a backyard, a grill, or any way to make a bbq, so they do it in the streets. They light a fire and move the embers with a stick under a grate where the meat is. When the meat is done, they cut it on a large cutting board for all to eat with thier forks. We all looked like vultures piercing the meat with our forks. It was delish! We then headed back to BA, which we were all exhausted from a great weekend in Montevideo.
We met back up with Juan and Ivan, and their friends to see one of their friend's sing at a bar. Her name was Nadia, really sweet girl who sings well. This was a fun night full of conversation and new people, and of course castellano.
Last week Nora and I headed to the Recoleta cemetery where the graves of Juan and Eva Peron are. See pics! It was really peacefull here, and all the graves were amazing to look at and read.
My birthday was a load of fun! We spent the day at a ferria in Recoleta with Ezequiel and we then headed over to his friend's home and celebrated 3 birthdays at once (Ezequiels, his friends', and mine). We had hamburgers for dinner, and were served an amazing homemade chocolate tart cake. MMm... It was really nice to be sang happy birthday in Spanish (3 times) on my special day. Everyone there was really sweet, and we had many good conversations, all while practicing my Castellano. Claro!(of course). At 2am we headed to my 1st boliche and had a lot of fun dancing and singing until 7am! It was a great bday.
Wednesdays are 1/2 off for cinemas, so we headed to see some interesting movie with Heath Leddger and Jude Law. The movie was really trippy, but I enjoyed it. It was called somehthing imagination. it was in English, but it was still fun to go to a cinema here. We went with Zac (an american whose been studying here for 8 months), Lucas, Federico, and some other of their friends. We met them through Bex (our awesome American IFSA friend).
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