After a late-ish night on the town, I slept in on Saturday. I won’t tell you what time I woke up. You would sigh and think, “Oh the youth of our generation.” However, once I did get up and around I ate my breakfast (lunch) and started writing out letters to the family and what not. I then proceeded to try to finish my homework for Monday’s Spanish class. (Only one more page to read! Woo!)
After awhile of writing and reading, I decided to go for a walk. I found a local park about two to three blocks away from my apartment and it was such a cute little park. There were tons of little kids there with their moms and dads. They were riding little tricycles and chasing pigeons and swinging. It was such a cute place; I will probably go back (if the weather doesn’t get colder). While I was there I read a little from the newspaper about politics. Not only did I barely understand it, but most of it was continuation of things that have been happening in B.A. recently… I haven’t been in B.A. recently so I was completely lost. Sigh…maybe one day.
Speaking of politics, their local and regional elections are tomorrow. Something you might not know about Argentine voting rights… it’s not only a right, it’s an obligation. That’s right. They have to vote here. It’s not if they want to…they just have to. I asked my host mom what happened if they didn’t vote and she said, “Well, you have to talk to the government, then go through a lot of paperwork, then go to meetings, then get fined, then…well, it’s just better to vote.” It’s so interesting to me that we see it as a “privilege” in the US, and here it doesn’t matter how they look at it, they still have to vote. I can see that as a good and bad thing, however a lot of Argentines (like a lot of people from the U.S.) are very cynical about their government. They don’t think that the candidates are much different or will be much different from what they are now…but they still have to choose someone to vote for, they don’t get the choice to not vote. It’s crazy to me…but something else that’s crazy is that they did not get the right to vote until 198…3… I think. 1983. So it’s only been a little over 20 years for them. So yeah…just thought I’d share that with you. =)
Moving on with my lazy Saturday…after the park I went to the grocery store and bought more apple juice. I don’t know what it is, but there is something just so wonderful about the apple juice here! It’s like coke…but I don’t know if it’s the sugar or not…hmm. Anyways, I bought more juice, then went to a kiosco and bought a phone card to call home again.
Then I went back to the apartment, wrote a couple more letters, read some… I didn’t really do anything exciting. I was able to get on the internet for a little while and I got connected with Adam and we decided to meet at McDonalds to use their wi-fi (because my house mate needed her internet back, plus we just wanted to get out of the apartments, lol). So we hung out at McD’s for awhile, then I headed back home where I had dinner and watched TV…
Wow, I just realized how lazy and lame my Saturday was… but it was a good break from traveling so much lately! I am sure I’ll have better stories tomorrow, because I’m going to Uruguay! Yay, another country to visit!
More from the Southern Hemisphere later! Love you!
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