Buenos Aires

Eventually after I had arrived in Argentina I waited in the bus station with the other exchange students from Japan, Austria, Thailand (many from Thailand (almost 45)), New Zealand, Switzerland, Germany, and Iceland (and I am probably forgetting something) for our bus time (or in my case, my family picked me up).  I figured that people would be speaking Spanish at that point but no, everyone who talked to me spoke English, it seemed to be the common language to communicate between everyone.

When my family came my Spanish failed me a bit, (oh well).but it , was awesome to finally meet them in person! 

So, we toured the city (Masaya from Japan was also with us) and I had an awesome time!  It felt like the movies.  On Friday night I had my first Asado (barbecue) in a mall.  I was expecting something like... mall food.  It was certainly not mall food, it was delicious meat (beef), better than most anything I have had before and along with it we had some potatoes and salad.

 La Casa Rosada (US equivalent of the White House except for here it is the pink house).

 The capitol building!

 The Boca stadium.  Sorry any anti-Boca people, it was still worth seeing!  The futbol team rivalries are everywhere here!

 This was taken in the section of the city where all the buildings are super colorful (Axel, Gabriela, me, and Masaya).  We just had to make sure that we watched our things because it was an easy area to get pickpocketed or have your bag's straps cut.  In general though the atmosphere was certainly friendly.

 In the colorful part of the city (right by the Boca stadium there was a little cement area to play soccer with the paint on the wall.  It looked pretty sweet.  Rather like street soccer video games... but for real.

I hope this works!  (It is the same one on Facebook)  We were in a park and there were tons of people roller blading and this group that was dancing.  It looked like so much fun!

Anyways, I am having a great time.  Life is an adventure!  Hablaremos pronto!  Besos!