Hello all! Look at this! I am able to update already, here on my first day in B.A. This city is...like a big city should be. There are plenty of people...everywhere. There are big buildings small buildings, etc. But I am getting ahead of myself.
So, my flight left yesterday, Central Standard Time from Houston at 9:00pm. The flight was a horrible ten hours long...ten hours that I did NOT sleep. Sigh. Therefore, I have been up now for 35ish hours. Yes, it is apparently possible.
Then we arrived at the airport where we went through customs and got money changed and all that fun stuff. It was a pretty easy walk through. Then...we had to wait 45 minutes for our taxi because he left us there and had to come back and get us. Sigh...however, we made it to our hotel in one piece.
I will be staying in the Hotel Tango for 2 nights, then on Friday I will go to meet my host family. I learned today that I will be staying with a lady named Gabriella and her 19yr. old son. She is a vegetarian!!! In the land of BEEF, I get stuck in the house with a vegetarian. I'm sure she's kind, just no beef...although, I guess she's not fully vegetarian because she eats one meal of fish and one of chicken every week. Sigh. That's okay, plenty of other opportunities to eat meat.
Moving along. Things I've noticed about B.A. so far... people aren't afraid to stare. And it's not the creepy kind of looking at you stare, it's the curious kind of stare. Thomas, Adam and I went to the Recoleta Cemetary (again, google image search) and it was very cool, on our way there, I realize we must have stood out. Thomas with his map, me with my OBU Bison hoodie, and Adam wearing shorts (no one else in this world down here was wearing shorts). People weren't rude about staring, but they do it, and if you look back, they don't look away. Quite interesting.
Moving along, the sidewalks are WAY TINY. Let me just say, when you can get three people next to each other on a side walk here...well, it's pretty big. I'm not even kidding. Of course, I suppose there are places with larger sidewalks, but most are narrow, and the roads are as well...Most roads are one way, two lanes...
It's probably about 60 degrees here (and it feels WONDERFUL compared to that Oklahoma weather I left behind) but the natives think it's freezing. I find that so interesting. They wear big coats and some have scarves and beanies. You'd think it was 15 degrees out...oh well, at least I'm comfortable in my light sweater.
The doors...are different. Almost all doors have a lock on them and you have to be buzzed in to get inside. Some places you have to actually talk to someone on the other side, but in most there is a security guard standing close by and he lets you in. And you have to be buzzed out, which is strange to me as well...
You can get anything delivered...basically all restaurant chains deliver, and not only that....your laundry! Yeah, they do it for you and bring it back to you...I don't know if I plan on doing this...but we'll see. I do know that I will have to do my own laundry at a laundromat, so yay for money I didn't plan on using for that, sigh.
Anyways...other things I did today, went to Recoleta Cemetary (mentioned that...) and saw the Obelisk and a museum of Leon Ferrari's work (which is way cool)...
We are about to go get dinner here in a little less than an hour. They eat really late here. Us having an 8:00 dinner is considered really early, lol. And they don't get up any later! It's generally a 7-8 o'clock morning for most! Ah! I don't know how they do it.
I also saw a really pretty park that I want to sit in and read a book...I'm such a nerd.
Anyways, that's it from this side of the equator, for now anyways. I don't know if I will be able to write this often or not. But we shall see! Love you all!
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