I meant to post this yesterday (Monday) but I wrote most of it, got called down to dinner and forgot to finish and publish it. Woops!
Hola everybody! Sorry in advance for not posting photos this week - a result of not going out of the city this weekend and not bringing my camera anywhere in the city.
Anyway, we had a short week last week because Thursday was a national holiday, commemorating the elimination of slavery in Argentina. What that really meant for me though was that I got a 4 day weekend, since we don't ever have classes on Friday! It was a fairly standard school week, although we did have our first real test, in history, which nobody really enjoyed all that much. If only they could just eliminate tests from classes... On Thursday, I just took advantage of the day off by sleeping in and relaxing most of the day. I have a high tolerance for relaxation, so I was fine with a day of unwinding most of that day. Interestingly, I find myself more tired here than at Union, probably because we're getting up at 7am every morning, and we're actually in class for longer than at Union. Combine that with more commute time, and then having to whatever other miscellaneous things I have to do, I'm usually more tired at the end of the day than I would be at Union.
Friday, I went downtown with a few others and partook in some decidedly American activities - we first went to a bowling alley type place in a mall, although it was inside a larger arcade-style area. There we bowled and played pool, at which I am spectacularly average and unremarkable. It was good fun though, especially since I hadn't done either in a while. After that, we didn't have anything going on, so we decided to go see Django Unchained, the new Quentin Tarantino movie with Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, and Leonardo DiCaprio. It was in English, with Spanish subtitles, and I often found myself following along with the Spanish subtitles just because I was curious how they translated certain phrases. The movie itself was tremendously entertaining, and probably one of my favorite movies ever. It's extremely violent which might be a dealbreaker for some, but it's very well directed, it has great acting and dialogue, and it's got a very unique and bold style that I very much enjoyed. After the movie, I went back to the house of two of my classmates, since they live closer to the center and we were planning on going back out again. After meeting their host mom, who was quite the character (older, single woman who was alternately amusing and crabby), we met up with some of our other classmates and enjoyed a night out on the town.
Saturday morning, I met Prof. Mosquera (our accompanying professor from Union) and several other students at a pool/sports club that happened to be conveniently located near-ish to my house. There, I was able to swim and play basketball, both of which I haven't done in a while (I hadn't played basketball in a month, while I hadn't swam since summer, but the gap for basketball felt just as long). I was a little rusty on the court at first (might have had something to do with a hoop that I suspect wasn't exactly 10 feet, nor exactly straight and level) but I soon got my groove back and was dropping buckets. We spent the rest of the morning and early afternoon there before I came back to my house to relax and read, which was how I spent the rest of the evening.
Sunday was spent sleeping in and getting work done until the Super Bowl, at which time I sat down on the couch and tuned in to hear...not the dulcet tones of Jim Nantz, Al Michaels, or Joe Buck, but rather the Spanish commentators for the Argentinian broadcast! It was a different experience, but still enjoyable, especially since the game was an entertaining one. We've got a slate of classes this week before leaving Friday evening for Mendoza, where we will have a set program Saturday, but a free day on Sunday, which it seems will be used for student-organized rafting excursion (also means we're footing the bill ourselves). I'll put up another post on Friday before we leave, and I'll include our (hopefully) finalize and definitive itinerary. Thanks for reading!
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