End of weekend update

This week is going to be very interesting! Yesterday, Monday, I didn´t have to go to school because it was Día del San Martín, a day where all of Argentina celebrates their independence of the Spanish Colonies, however they don´t celebrate it as their Independence Day. Their actual independence day is July 9th, and on that day they were freed by the Spainards from the French, however they were still under Spanish rule. Anyways, tomorrow and Thursday I don´t have school either for something called "paro." I don´t really understand what goes on these days we dont have school but hey it works for me. Let me finish talking about my long weekend. On sunday I felt a lot better and I didn´t have a fever anymore, so I went to the Parque de Diversion with my younger brother and my friends. They set up State Fair style rides in a park close to my house. I´ve been there three times already with Gustavo. He loves it. He´s been back and forth between the park and the house (getting more money to go on the rides) all weekend. He keeps begging me to go again, but I think I ´ve had my share of dangerous, rusty, put-together-in-a-hurry rides. After the park on Sunday, I went to a girl´s birthday party, which I didn´t get there until 1 AM! It is so strange to go out here. There is an EXTREME overabundance of alcohol. Every five seconds someone was going outside to open another bottle of something or the other. The funny thing is the parents don´t mind, in fact, sometimes they are sitting right at the table and drinking with their kids! But I have also met parents who are very against their children drinking. I myself find beer and wine disgusting with dinner, dessert, potatoes, asado, whatever. But they seem to love it. Anyway, now I can say I have survived my first Argentinean weekend!!....................alth0ugh I spent all Monday recovering sleep. :)