Well, like the subject suggests, today I went window shopping and got a manicure! Woo! I woke up early ish (9:45) and did the usual morning routine. After I finished getting ready I went to Expanish to talk to Luciana. She was really worried about me and how I was feeling about the class! I told her my concerns and she gave me a few options. She said that I could just stop going to the class and it would not affect my other two classes, or I could keep going to the class and try to grasp as much as possible, but not take a mark (grade) for the class if I didn’t think I was going to be able to do well in it. And of course there’s the option of just staying in the class, doing the work, and sucking it up. Sigh. I don’t know what I’m going to do for sure yet. I know I am going to go again, at least once to see how it goes. For our homework last Tuesday, he just wanted us to email him. One, so he could have all of our email addresses. Two, so we could remind him to make photocopies of this book he wanted us to read. And three, so we can tell him about what we find interesting about what we’ve talked about so far. Well, I think I might take that as an opportunity to let him know how I am lost and not really understanding the material. He can either help me out, or allow me to be lost and that might influence my decision in whether or not I take a grade or not. But I don’t have to tell them that soon, just before the end of the program. So maybe he’ll try and help me out. I don’t know, but we’ll see!
Moving on…after talking with Luciana, I met up with Bridget at the sub stop in my barrio (neighborhood). We then began our three hour window shopping adventure. I would like to say that I bought something wonderfully amazing…but I did not buy anything, lol. Bridget wants to find shoes, so we did go into a lot of shoe stores. We did eventually find that book store that is in an old theatre. It was so great! There was also a little café where the stage was, so we had lunch there. We shared a mini pizza then got cake and ice cream. It was all really good. Nothing too too exciting there. After lunch we walked around the book store. I found a section of English books, but decided to not buy any since we are in
After Bridget and I finally pulled ourselves away from the books, we continued walking down Avenida Santa Fe (which is the busiest street around where I live, and also where my bus stop is). We looked into a few more shoe stores, and then decided that we wanted manicures. Like I mentioned before, manicures here are really cheap: less than $7 US. We found this cute little beauty shop and it was a fun time. I got this pretty pink color and Bridget chose a purplish redish… color.
After manicures, we went our separate ways deciding to meet back up later tonight. I don’t exactly know what the plans are for later. We are trying to get hold of some other people to see what everyone else is doing. Who knows…maybe I’ll stay home watching TV and going to bed early! Ha ha… we decided to go to the Circus tomorrow because there were some Expanish students who wanted to go but they had school today. So we decided to wait until tomorrow.
And I just realized that tomorrow is the 4th of July. How strange to be spending the day of my country’s independence in another country. My house mate Serri knows of a group of Americans that’s throwing a mini 4th of July party. We might go to that just because. They will be passing out free hot dogs! Woo! =)
Later this evening: After already writing my update for the day, I got a call from Luciana, the student coordinator. Apparently, our school is closing because of the swine flu outbreak. But DON’T WORRY! It’s just a precaution; no one had it at our school or anything scary like that. The schools here are getting out for their winter break just a few weeks early. However, we still have class. Oh yes, no worries there either. We are having the same classes, just at a different location. And actually, the place we are at now is closer to where I live. I can actually walk there. It’s a longer walk but it isn’t any longer than what I walk most days in general. And, what’s even better about not having to pay to take the bus, is that I don’t have to be on a bus filled with other people and thus, avoiding germs! And Serri talked to her parents who talked to a travel doctor about whether or not she’ll be okay. He said it’s not too much different from the normal flu. We just need to make sure and wash our hands and take vitamins (which I have done every day, Mom!) and if we do come down with anything to take Tamaflu or something along those lines. There’s really nothing serious to worry about. But it’s still crazy being so close to it. Apparently B.A. is the third most infected place with the swine flu (behind
I wish I had more fun things to share…but alas, I do not. I guess I can teach you all some more slang, because I know that you all want to learn more!
Lunfardo de viernes (Friday’s Slang)
- Boludo: slang for calling your friends “stupid” or other semi-negative words like that. It’s okay unless you use it when you are really angry with people you don’t know…then it’s considered rude. =) (Because why wouldn’t you want to know that?)
- Copado: slang for “great” or “wonderful”. Can be used for a person or a place. Example:
- Piola: Another term for nice or easy going.
Yay for the slang of the day! No worries, there is more to come later! =)
Missing you all terribly! More from down South later!
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