Buenos Aires, Argentina

So here I am a month after getting into Buenos Aires. I feel like I´ve honeslty been here for about 4 or 5 months, but I think that’s just how you feel when you stay away for so long. This first month of being in Buenos Aires is definitely different than any of the other countries or cities I´ve n been to these last couple of months. I´m not gonna lie though, it feels so good just to be able to settle down finally and not have to travel because I was tired of packing and unpacking all the time. I appreciate being able to stay in one spot a lot more than I used to. SO Buenos Aires is huge!!! With 13 million ish people and a city with so much to do you can´t really get bored. I haven´t taken as many pictures here and I think it´s because I have a lot more time here in Buenos Aires left so I´m kind of being lazy. So I´ve started all of my classes and they are all pretty cool. Some are definitely more interesting than others, but I need these classes because they all count for my major which will help me graduate without problems. My schedule goes a little something like this.


Monday; Nada
Tuesday;(Spanish) Nivel Intermedio Alto
Wednesday; Economia Politca (Political Economy)
Thursday; Literatura Argentina (Argentina LIterature) and (Spanish) Nivel Intermedio Alto
Friday; Folklore Americano y Argentina, Historia del Arte HispanAmericano y Argentina
Weekends Saturday-Monday


So yea as you can see, my schedule is five classes long and full of lots of Spanish. I had a sixth class, but the professor spoke too fast and I couldn´t understand anything that he was saying so I just dropped the class. My classes here are worth 20 credits back home, but since the maximum amount of credits is 17 I will only be able to claim 17 of the 20 credits here. It kind of sucks, but at least I´m getting credit for both of my majors. Every single class counts as a Spanish class and a majority counts towards my Cross Cultural Studies Major!!! So as far as my social life here it´s pretty chill. I made some really cool American friends in my dorm and some really cool Argentinean friends and a lot of other International Students as well. The people in the picture are my friends that I pretty much hang out with every week like Sharice who is on the far right is from NY, Leigh Ann is from Texas, and Karla in the Middle is from the Seattle area just like Andrew and I.




I live with two Argentinean guys who are pretty cool (The two on the left of me). The one on the far left is Claudio and the one in between us is Guido. It was pretty rough at first, but after spending some time together I really got to like them both. We live in a student residence that´s super big. I live on the seventh floor and it gets pretty crazy on our floor. We are definitely the wildest and people come up just to see what we´re all doing up here. From our room we are directly across from other big buildings and homes. Whenever we have our music up there´s this little girl who walks out on her balcony and dances for us, it´s pretty amusing. Our residence has about 70 percent International Students and the other 30 percent are Argentinean students.



I really like the residence a lot. The residence is fun and pretty nice as well. Of course there´s things about the dorm that I don´t like, but it´s all good. The internet here is the worst I´ve ever used in my life!!! (One reason why I don´t blog all that much here). We can´t use the kitchen that is here which limits us from going out and buying food. So we get a meal plan here but it´s so we can´t use the kitchen which I guess is how they make money. So many people smoke in Buenos Aires too, it´s ridiculous. Even in my dorm sometimes my whole floor smells like smoke. Unfortunately I am allergic to smoke and my nose goes crazy, so it pretty much sucks for me. Also I feel like a majority of the students here are younger than me, which means they are always trying to go every night out and going out here means you don’t leave till the earliest 12 noon and don´t return before 5. Clubs stay open for days on the weekends so it really never stops. The food here is pretty decent as well. There isn´t as many options of food, but what there is to eat is pretty good at least. There´s lots of pasta, pizza, and steak places which is cool because I like all of it. But that´s a bulk of what there is to eat, so if you feel like eating different stuff you have to look a lot harder for it. Also, for entertainment there is lots of Tango, music, parks, museums, malls and lots more to experience. We took a boat ride the other day to go look at ex President Sarmiento´s old house which is in the hugest glass case I´ve ever seen. The cemetery we also went to which was really impressive. The cemetery is home to Eva Peron´s grave which is a pretty big deal here in Buenos Aires. Also I´ve gone to the Plaza de Mayo to watch the mothers walk in remembrance (to the left)of their lost ones during the 1976 Dirty War where thousands of people disappeared because of a corrupt government. The mom´s still walk every Thursday in front of the plaza 40 something year´s later. On March 25 we had the day off because of a national holiday. There were rallies in the Plaza de Mayo and many flags and representations of Che Gueverra, Tupac Amaru, and a few others that had been significant impacts in the past. The holiday celebrates a week long series of revolutionary events in 1810 when Argentina broke away from the Spanish and gained its independence. There were many political and social organizations that were rallying in remembrance of their revolution. It´s weird how time is going by so fast too. I remember when I planned all this and six months seemed like forever and now I only have 12 weeks left and then I´ll be back home. However many days it is I will try my best to enjoy them and learn as much as I possibly can. Okay well i´ll wait for another little until I feel like blogging. Adioso!