Acostumbrandome....Getting used to it!

These last two days have been very full. Yesterday was my first day of school. We study very odd subjects and from what I can understand they seem completely pointless and awkward. For example, we took notes on rodents nutrition, where they can be found, how to get rid of them and things like that. And that is what the whole class is about. Its really weird. I decided to stay in Natural Sciences so I have a lot of physics and biology and chemistry classes. Our schedule varies from day to day, but I always go to school from 8 until 12 or 1 and then I usually have to come back at 3 for another class. This whole week has been a huge adjustment period for me. Yesterday I also had a computation class, which is basically a teacher reading an article or something from a book and a handful of students typing what the teacher is saying, which I dont get that either but oh well. Today my mom let my brothers and I skip school to watch the inaugural ceremony of the olympics, haha. It was spectacular. After I went with Gustavo to his dad´s house where I helped him make a drawing for his school. Gustavo and I go everywhere together. He takes me around the town and I already know how to walk home from school by myself! I had to go to school at three for gym. I learned how to play handball, which is very interesting. In Argentina boys and girls have separate gym classes. Girls play handball or volleyball and only have gym once a week. Boys play soccer (obviously) and have gym twice a week. As far as friends go, I feel more comfortable understanding and speaking around my peers. Today they invited me to meet al ¨centro,¨ which is basically the main part of town, on sunday. I am very excited. Besides my friends, teachers and basically anyone I meet asks me A LOT of questions. None really seem to understand the idea of Foreign Exchange Student and they all say, ¨Oh, poor you, no one you know can speak english¨ and then proceed to talk to me in english. What a pain. They also dont seem to understand what I´m doing here even when I try to explain to them. Oh well. Everyone is very very nice and understanding and extremely friendly here. It is a very beautiful country with many beautiful people.



IN THE PICTURES you will find me with my good friend I met in Miami Patrick..he is studying in Santiago del Estero in a university. There is also a picture of the tomb where Eva Peron is buried in Buenos Aires, along with other famous people. Then the Pink House, which is the Argentinean equivalent of the White House. The colorful building is in La Boca District, which is a neighborhood in Argentina. All of the houses and buildings are painted bright colors for a certain reason, which is when the immigrants got off the ships and came to Buenos Aires, they found the paint below the deck and decided to paint their houses, and it has lasted all these years. There is also a picture of a gigantic McDonalds which is in Buenos Aires. Check the other blog for more pictures.