Buenos Aires... May 12, 2010….. Wow has time flown by for me. Its only been over a month since I´ve last posted but it feels like forever ago. Anways so I´m just gonna say it. Buenos Aires has been rough this last month. I have learned a lot believe me, but the whole excitement of being here settled and home began to seem like heaven to me in my mind. I don´t know if it was more that I began to miss everything or if things here were just not going my way or what, but either way I struggled.
I was broke, eating canned tuna, and being accused of crimes haha. But on the positive side I have been learning so much and experiencing Argentinean culture (I´ll explain later, I just need to vent). I was hitting the gym regularly though which was good, until I began to see that I was losing weight which then I had to stop going to the gym because I did not have enough money to buy enough food for how much I needed to not lose anymore weight. Yea I go hard at the gym! So I stopped going to the gym and began to eat what little I had. My mom told me that my cell phone bill was really high because I had used my phone from the states down here. BIG MISTAKE!!! I turned it off though right after and I will pay you back mother! I promise. Also my family had birthdays that I missed. HAPPY BIRTHDAY JUSTINE, HAPPY BIRTHDAY JUSTIN, HAPPY BIRTHDAY GRANDMA. I also missed mothers day and my girlfriend and I´s 3 year anniversary. It´s been tough being away and missing days that would otherwise be spent with loved ones. It is okay though, it was just heavy on the mind.
Along with that here´s another story. So I´m sitting with my roommate at about 2 in the morning using the computer and all of a sudden we hear these huge thumps against the wall that were really loud. My window shatters on me!!! Somebody had thrown stuff at my window and broke it. We both ran out the room cuz we didn’t know what that had just happened. So we get the manager that is on duty and tell him what happened. So the next day I come home from school a little freaked out still, and the manage pulls me into his office and says, ¨Its your responsibility to fix it since you live in the room. Figure it out with your two other roommates.¨ I soon get pretty pissed because I can´t really explain it to him in Spanish since he really won´t let me talk. So he tried to tell me that I have until the following Monday to pay. I go up to my room and my roommates and I pretty much come to the same conclusion. We´re not paying. They even called my university and said if I don´t pay I´m out. I was pretty pissed and was feeling like bad luck wouldn´t leave me alone. So I guess rumor had it that this crazy guy across the street had been coming over complaining about the top floors here that have been being really rude to him. But I guess he came over with a knife threatening the residents. Anyways my roommate and I decide to walk over and talk with him about what had happened. Probably wasn´t the best idea at the time, but we were running out of solutions to our problems. He was very upset, and brought us to his building across the street and showed us whiere the top two floors yell at him and take pictures and are just rude to him. He then went on to talk about the loss of his son and his wife, and how that took away his purpose in life. He was very very upset and we assumed he threw whatever at our windows to shut the top floors up. My roommates and I live on the seventh floor of the residence and the eight and ninth floors were the ones that really bug him. We told him how our window broke and how we are just students and they want us to pay for what happened. He came up with the solution of him paying for it, so we don´t have to, but the people who annoy him have to go. So he writes down the names he knows and says in the morning he will bring the list to the managers. We were kind of skeptical of him and if he´d really do it, but as I was leaving for classes the next day I seen him. When I come back that day I felt better that at least the manages would now maybe think that it was our fault. I soon fall asleep and when I wake up there is a huge pounding on our door. There was about 20 residents at our door who were pretty angry. They assumed that we gave a list of people to the old guy to give to the managers Well the old guy already knew names just by listening to how loud the loud people are. So the residents at my door were mostly blaming my roommate for what really was their own faults, but it was whatever. It all ends up getting blown over, but the situation just sucked as a whole. I was just trying to figure out if I have to pay which would have been crap if I did. But the next day I asked the manager and he said nope. So I was free. Things began to look up for me.
Times were definitely harder this 
month, but with the support of my family, friends, and my lovely girlfriend they weren´t so bad. Thank you guys, I love you all very very much.
So as far as activities I´ve been hanging out with my roomies more and also doing more homework. I seen some Tango at the park. I see iron Man 2 here which was pretty cool. I figured out why so many Argentinens speak a lot of English, well I think. All the North American movies come out here and they stay in English, but just have Spanish subtitles going down at the bottom. I also went to the International Film Festival when it was here and seen a pretty sweet movie. I have also been to a few Parillas to eat some good meat which was great. I went to a BOCA game which is one of the biggest soccer teams here in Buenos Aires. It was crazay!!! We went there hoping we could just buy tickets, but didn´t go down so great. We almost gave up when we seen this huge group getting tickets from this guy. We gave him what I call the American pout and he sold us his last few tickets for 80 pesos son!!! That’s a 
pretty good price for just showing up, being American, and a BOCA game. We ended up sitting right below the fans to the other team which probably wasn´t the smartest idea, but it was really fun because of all the stuff they talked to each other. I learned lots of new vocabulary and it was just funny to watch, except the spit wads that we had to dodge. I can definitely see why soccer games in Buenos Aires turn violent.
So as far as homework… I have been getting the most in Spanish class, but its been minimal In my Liteature of Argentina class we have to write a 5 page paper that has to do with these books were reading which is pretty tough. In Folklore, I think, I have papers due soon, but the prof is just crazy and doesn´t like repeating herself, even to the International students. But we´ll see about that. Internet here in Argentina is the worst ever, huh Heidi? Haha yea but on the real, don´t come here expecting any good internet. I am grateful for the internet back home. Andrew´s dad just came to visit him and Buenos Aires and he took us out to eat and it was great. He even brought PEANUT Butter for Andrew which Andrew so generously gave me one. Like good internet, they don´t really have PB here in Buenos Aires either. It was the first time trying peanut butter for many of my friends and they seem to like it. Never as much as me though. Andrew and I have hung out a good deal and it seems his roommates and my roommates like each other a good amount. Andrew and I still kick it a good amount like going to book fairs, soccer matches, little get togethers, and so on. I like him, a lot!
So I have a month and a half ish to go and it´s flying by like crazy. This will definitely be the busier half homework wise, but I am not too worried because I know I will get it done when I have to. O got my first grade back on a paper the other weel and I got an 8. Which is equivalent to a B plus ish. Go mE!!! I would hang it on our fridge, but we don’t get one, or a microwave, or a kitchen. Yea sad day I know. Argentinean culture well, a little something is that they go out at 2 in the morning and come home at 7 to 10 in the morning. I´m glad I am not too fond of sunrises though. My roommates are something special also. They make me laugh so much which is good, but on the flip they also can push my buttons. We have definitely gotten a lot closer than we first were and that has come with fighting and making up. ButI wouldn´t have it any other way because I know they are good guys. One of them, Guido, is in love with Norah Jones and Alejandro Sanz while the other one loves classic rock and reggae ton. It seems like at first, my roommates were a little hostile towards me until I opened up to them about my life, and then they really opened up and we have gotten to be like a nice dysfunctional at times family. Point blank, I love them and they’re like brothers to me! It´s also getting chillier here, good thing I brought some sweats and warmer clothes. A lot of the international students are talking about getting stuff sent here or buying stuff. I´ve been traveling for months before this and I brought warm clothes, haha good luck to them though.
Alright well another week or so and I´ll be off to Iguazu Falls and I´m sure I´ll have another blog to post and then June will officially be here. I already bought my tickets for the falls and Im excited!!!!!!!! Tty all then. Good Luck and wish me luck with my stuff. Adios
