Dia 15: An Uneventful Day, 1 de julio

B.A. Día 15! 1 julio 2009

Well, sadly enough today was a pretty uneventful day. I had my Spanish class and afterwards Thomas, Bridget and I went walking around. We went to Expanish to talk to someone about possibly taking a “field trip” tomorrow. Our syllabus for our culture class says that we are supposed to go to a museum tomorrow. When we asked our profe about it last week, he said that he thought our program was arranging it for us…but no one at Expanish told us or sent us emails. So we tried emailing them and didn’t get a response. We went to Expanish, but the two main coordinators had already left.

After that, we just walked around, and found a café called “Petty Café”. I had a milanesa sandwich which is pretty popular here in Argentina. Milanesas are basically breaded meat as far as I can tell…they aren’t too strange, but I suppose they are not normal either. After dinner, we walked around some more. We walked down Calle Florida again (it’s a popular place apparently since this was about the fourth-ish time I’ve been there). Bridget and I got some ice cream and then we separated from Thomas (who had a different route home) and got on the subte.

The subte tonight, was crazy! The craziest I’ve ever seen it in any country and I only had to be on it for about 5 or 6 stops. Poor Bridget had about 15 stops to go through to get to her place. We were at the Catedral stop, which is at the very end of the line. But there were so so so many people down there that all the trains would be full within two minutes of opening. I have never been so crammed into a place like that. I didn’t even need to hold on to any railing because when the train jerked I had people to lean on either side of me. And the smell…whew, that was just horrid. I don’t understand why people don’t make sure they smell decent before they get on a subte filled with others. But then, I suppose all the good smells mixed together would create something horrid as well… so maybe it’s a win win.

Once I got off the subte, I walked the 6-ish blocks home and talked with Serri a bit about our days. She made some popcorn which I ate while watching That 70s Show with Elsa. Then, Elsa and I watched an episode of a show called Life which I had never heard of, but it’s basically like the typical murder show where the detectives have to figure out who the killer is…The killer in this episode was really creepy and Elsa was making me laugh because she kept saying, “Que horror! Que feo! Que loco!” over and over. She really got into it which was fun because I can see myself just watching the show and not really getting that into it. So it is a lot of fun to watch shows with her. Then we watched an episode of CSI Miami which she fell asleep in the middle of. I asked her if she needed sleep and she said no and that I could stay in there…well she slept anyways. She’s so fun, I lucked out with a great host mom. She also told me tonight that they don’t have squirrels in Argentina and I thought, “How sad.” (There was a commercial with a squirrel in it in case you were wondering how that subject came about).

And now, it’s a little after 11:00 and I am thinking that I am going to go to bed soon!

Oh…one more thing I miss about Oklahoma…the air. Fresh air! I mean, today, for some reason, the air just felt so so heavy with pollution and smells and who knows what all else. My lungs are probably taking a beating with the air here! Ah! But its okay, when I go to Iguazú in a couple of weekends, I’ll breathe a lot there. =)

Well, that’s all for today! Sorry so short, but like I said, it was an uneventful day! Love you all!