k here comes a long one since I haven't written very much since I've gotten here. Right now we are doing orientation for my program so I have to take the bus (el colectivo) every morning which takes about 40 minutes. For orientation we talk about things like the weird type of spanish that argentines speak, the city and where we will take classes. It's extremely long and often times boring but I guess it's all information that we need to know. Then I squeeze onto the ridiculously packed subway (subte) which is always closing on people because it's too full. The past couple of days I've been watching a telenovela with Norma that is of course extremely dramatic and ridiculous. Everything here is so cheap that I have been eating extremely well, I just want to try everything!
The city itself is absolutely amazing, I love it! Never before have I seen a more compacted and packed city. There are so many people everywhere I go but everyone mostly keeps to themselves. On every block there's a couple restaurants that have coffee and food like medialunas (like crossaints) and empanadas. It has been rather cold in the morning and at night lately but during the day it has been nice and sunny. There are a ton of trees everywhere and parks in all the neighborhoods. However, there is a ton of pollution from the amount of buses and cars in the city and sometimes when I have been walking around for a while I have trouble breathing. It's not like the fresh air of Seattle! My neighborhood is called Belgrano, towards the northern part of the city. It's mostly a residential area off of a man street that has a ton of stores. Even though there are parts of the city that are much more beautiful I still love it!
Last night was the first night that I went out because I have been a little jetlagged and am always tired from doing orientation stuff all day. Me and a few of my friends went to a little bar to meet up with a guy, Pablo who lives here in BA who I became friends with through Susy. We hung out there for a while and I met Pablo and all of his friends. They all speak pretty good english but me and my friends were trying to practice our spanish so we all spoke a lot of spanglish. They are all students that live in BA and all of them were extremely nice and reminded me a lot of my friends from home. We then went to a huge nightclub that had hundreds of people waiting to get in. Somehow Pablo convinced the bouncers to let us in after bribing them a bit hah. This place was the most crowded place I have ever seen, there wasn't even room to dance! Even though it was quite a sight it was a little overwhelming for my first night out so we didn't stay long. They couldn't believe we were leaving so early because here everyone stays out until 7 in the morning!
Anyways, sorry for the long message but basically I absolutely love it here! more later xooxoxxo
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