Soooo it's been quite a while since I last posted but there's not too much I have to cover. I'm finally done with orientation stuff which is great, but now I have to task of trying to figure out what classes I'm going to take for the rest of the semester. So this week and next week I will (and have been) running around the city testing out 13 different classes! All of which are about 45 minutes away from my house. Even though I haven't gone to all of them I think I will end up taking a contemporary Argentine film class at Di Tella, which is a private school with small classes and one at Universidad de Buenos Aires. Quite the opposite of Di Tella, UBA has 300,000 and is free for Argentines. However the class that I will most likely be taking is a politics seminar that will be smaller. I have been taking numerous subtes and colectivos and have been walking everywhere! On Thursday some of my friends and I walked to Plazo de Mayo. Even though it's not the most exciting place it has the Casa Rosada which is a huge PINK government building on one side. It's also famous for the Madres de los Desaparecidos which means the mothers of the disappeared. The are the mother's of people who disappeared when Argentina was controlled by the military. While the mothers were not there the day we went, there was some type of socialist protest going on but that type of thing is not exciting out of the ordinary.

During the weekend I went out to dinner with friends and went to a couple bars. I had squash ravioli with a cream sauce but like a lot of the food here, it was a little too salty for me. I have to remember to always ask for less salt, they really do love it here! We also went to a really cool bar called Post in Palermo Soho. Palermo Soho is kind of an epicenter for eating and drinking among the more hip, younger crowd of BA. While the main part Plazo Serrano is a little more touristy, Post is a couple blocks away and was great. Not only was it cheaper but the inside was covered in graffitted caricatures from Pinky and the Brain to Jimi Hendrix. I went with a bunch of my friends and we all loved it, definitely one of my favorite places to eat/drink so far.

On Sunday Cate and I walked to the 3 de Febrero Park which is a huge park in the middle of the city. It's basically physically impossible to walk the whole thing and has numerous attractions. In the middle there's a lake, a Japanese garden, a botanical garden, the zoo, etc. Even though it was rather cold it was a beautiful sunny day and the park was packed with people.

Besides that I have just been running around the city, going to classes, running errands so it's nice to have some down time. By the end of the day I am always utterly exhausted from walking everywhere and constantly having to listen to and speak in spanish. I'll write more very soon! Ciao!!!