Dia 49: Last Day of Politics Leads to a Freddo Extravaganza! 4 de agosto

If I didn’t enjoy writing about myself and my life so much, I would say, “Well, if you read the title of this blog, you know about my day.” And I could leave it at that…but lucky for all of you, I do enjoy writing about myself, and that’s what I am going to do for you all again today. =)

I woke up…on my own, around 10:15 (fifteen minutes before my alarm, someone be proud of me) and had my usual breakfast/shower routine. I got ready for class, got online and was able to talk to Amanda and Cody on Facebook chat, which was great because I haven’t gotten to talk to either of them in a long while. Yay for friends! =)

I headed off to class…which just happened to be the class that would end my career as a Politics student. No, not sad at all. =) And class wasn’t that bad either. He talked a lot; Alex asked a lot of questions…it was long, as usual, but not too worrying. We had all done our papers and sent him the email with our papers in it, luckily he hadn’t gotten them yet, so we didn’t have to discuss them in class! At the very end he asked us our opinions of the course. I tried as best I could to explain how it was difficult for me because it was easy to understand a lot of the words, but I would get lost trying to know the concepts of a lot of things. I told him that, although the readings were difficult, I liked them because it gave me something visual to be able to focus on instead of trying to grasp everything just by listening.

As a class, we finished off my peanut butter, and the professor had a few crackers with the PB on them…hopefully he’ll always be able to connect peanut butter to our class, and even if he remembers me as the student who doesn’t enjoy politics and hated the class…at least I introduced peanut butter to him. =) He also let us take a group photo with him after class, so everyone will be able to see the infamous Professor Carlos Piedra Buena (Carlos Good Rock…if you were wondering).

After class…we went and did possibly the best thing we could have done to celebrate the end of Politics class…had Freddo. (And, now that I think of it…no one even mentioned celebrating the end of the class…I think that’s just how my subconscious connected the two, lol). However, we didn’t just have any Freddo experience…as I said in my title, this was an EXTRAVAGANZA! Okay, maybe not this exciting, but we got the big one…the KILO. Now, at this Freddo, they said you could only get four flavors, which was pretty disappointing to us all, but still, we were getting the biggest amount of Freddo ice cream one can get (well, in one container)! The four flavors we got were: Dulce de Leche with Brownie, Tramontana, Chocolate Suizo, and Sombayon (the wine flavored one that I don’t really like…that one was for Thomas and Derek). Oh yeah, Derek and Gerald joined us for this little party. It’s only fitting that Derek (who is almost as obsessed with Freddo as I am…almost) be there for this event. Since there were about 7 of us eating it…it went by pretty fast, and even though it didn’t feel like I ate a kilo of ice cream (well, because I alone did not), it was still enough ice cream to last me for…a day or two. I hope it wasn’t my last Freddo experience. I am now starting to wonder if there is a Freddo in the airport so I can have it right before I leave…hmm. =)

Side note:

After we ate Derek and Gerald had to run to a dance class. And we kind of realized that tonight was quite possibly the last time we’d see each other. They are trying to plan a trip to Iguazu this weekend, so they’d be out of town. It was a semi-sad moment as we all said goodbye. It’s hard making new friends and then having to say goodbye so soon. But I suppose that’s life… we can be thankful for Facebook and being able to stay in touch if we really want to! But to Derek and Gerald (and Greggory, Victoria, Meghan, Ricardo…), thank you for being a part of my Buenos Aires experience. I realize that I barely know you all, but I think that if I were to call any of you right now and said I needed you to come over, you would do it…at least while we are here in BA and it’s physically possible! I enjoyed dancing with you guys (Ricardo, thank you for being my first Tango in Argentina!), playing games with you (um, I still can’t believe I found other people who know the game “Settlers…”), making forts with some of you, acting ridiculously awkward around the apartment, having really great late nights *cough*, and just getting to know you. You definitely helped my time in BA be even better and I will not soon forget any of you! Maybe we’ll all see each other again some day (imagine?... Derek). =)

Moving along…after we said our goodbyes those two left and me, Bridget, Thomas, and Adam walked around the mall for awhile. Thomas and Adam discovered an art museum above the mall, so we went and checked it out. They were even giving away free wine and soda (I had sprite, in case you were curious). We don’t know who the artists were, if they were from the community or world known, but there were four different rooms with different kinds of art: sculptures, photos, paintings, etc. It was interesting, but we weren’t there long enough for me to really have anything more exciting to say about it.

We went our separate ways after leaving the mall and I went home and had dinner with Serri who had been at Iguazú the past few days. We got all caught up with our stories and shared another hour of meaningless television that is now our guilty pleasure in the evenings when we don’t want to go out. Now it’s almost midnight and I am updating thinking I might be going to bed early tonight…woo.

Tomorrow will be my last day of Spanish class…and tomorrow night, Thomas and I are going to see “La Fantasma de la Opera!” We’re pretty excited about it…I mean, it’s Phantom of the Opera, and so we both know the story… and though it’s in Spanish, we will at least be able to know the basic plot! Plus…we get to see a theatre show while here, which we’ve both really wanted to do!

So, goodnight to all! I love you! Un beso!