Dia Nueve

Yesterday, Saturday, since I didn’t get to sleep until 7, I slept in until 1:30 in the afternoon. That seriously has to be a record for me. I had to sleep though my roommates doing some kind of hammering downstairs for a while but I was determined to sleep past 10. P.S. I’m happy right now because I’m listening to the Once soundtrack! When I got up I took a shower. All my clothes from the night before reek of cigarette smoke. I need to find a Laundromat pretty soon anyway. I did some more staring at my computer before calling Lauren around 4 to see if she wanted to do some exploring. We met at FLACSO and walked around down Avenida Corrientes. We did some window shopping and she finally bought a coat so she wouldn’t be so cold all the time. She decided that she was going to go out that night no matter how tired she was so we casually called some people to see if they wanted to go out. It was early so we went back to her house to watch Center Stage before meeting up with people. William took the Subte (subway) out our way after he finished dinner and suffered though the peanut butter that Lauren insisted he try and the end of Center Stage. Poor guy. At about 12 we called Gaby and she was going out with some people and we decided to try to meet up with them. We shared a cab and after walking and confusion finally found them in the smoking room of a restaurant. That is not where we wanted to be. So we left and walked around to look for a disco. One of the people handing out flyers on the street told us to go to one of the places on the corner so we decided to try it. OMG. STRANGENESS! When we got in, there were a bunch of people sitting at rows of tables. The man in drag, the woman in the nun costume, and the table of people wearing devil horns immediately caught my attention. Ummm… yeah okay, we’ll give it time. Eventually they took all the tables away and everyone was dancing and drinking… The music wasn’t very good and it was so loud that talking was impossible. The people were older than us for the most part and all looked a little odd. We put up with it for a while before running away to a different bar that William had heard was good. It was fun. It was a pub not a disco so people weren’t dancing but I could hear myself thinking and talking was easy so it was nice. We met a couple guys who heard us speaking English and decided to see what was up. The one guy who did most of the talking spoke English very well so he practiced his English while we practiced our Spanish. His English totally kicked my Spanish’s butt though. But he was great. Turns out he is very interested in the U.S. and has an American flag on his bedroom wall. We even talked about American politics and who would win the primary and who would win the election. Really interesting. It was fun though. We talked about music and what we were doing with ourselves these days. By the time we were ready to leave we gave him our email addresses and I got a picture with all of us. I guess I should have tried harder to remember his name. I’m getting worse with names as my 20 year old brain starts to fail… lol. I got home a little earlier than Friday night… around 5. It’s nice feeling like I have friends to do things with. I haven’t actually seen my roommates for almost 3 days. I’m thinking of everyone at home with love!