November 11

I think I may actually be insane.

So the tally is now five nights in a row that I have gone out. I need sleep.

This is a warning for those of you who don't want to know... I talk about sex in this blog.

So, Lauren told me there was a party on Friday night. Yay! As of then I had not been to an Argentine house party. So of course I went. We got there at about 1ish. It was a tiny apartment with a bathroom and tiny kitchen, and the bed was on the floor in the living room where everyone was sitting. Luckily there was also a balcony with a fair view. It was someone's birthday, i didn't know her. We all sat around drinking wine and beer and talking. It was very much like any party. But the atmosphere was chill and the people were fun. There were a bunch of streamers hanging straight down from the ceiling, but oddly enough they never seemed to be in the way. And there were a bunch of bottle of bubble stuff, so I ended up blowing bubbles for a good portion of the night. Coco is a friend of Lauren's and she's the one who invited us. She's adorable. She's one of those people that EVERYONE is in love with. She's really outgoing and just great. Anyway, She also doesn't speak English so when we want to hang out with her we speak Spanish, which is great. She and I made some make shift Sangria with the fruit in the fridge. It turned out to be pretty spectacular. The birthday girl, Gaby, spent some time studying at CU in Boulder and we were impressed by her Skippy peanut butter, and she even gave us some Big Red gum... it was amazing. Argentine gum is odd. Anyway, we ended up staying there until almost everyone else left and it was just Coco, Pablo and Emmanuel (Argentine guys), Gaby, and Lauren and Me. At that point... and no one knows why... the guys decided it was time to take their pants off... so they were running around in their boxer-briefs for a while. Yes, Lauren has pictures on Facebook. Eventually we talked them into putting them back on... but then they wanted to play some form of Argentine strip poker, to which we turned them down. We did play a rather illuminating game of Never Have I Ever in which we had a list of things (almost exclusively sexual in nature) to which you may have never done. If you have done it, you have to drink. This was basically the most culturally illuminating experience I've had here, as up until then, things seemed pretty normal to me. But in the world of sex, Argentines are very different from Americans. I consider myself to be pretty open about the subject and generally comfortable with my sexuality. But compared to Argentines I'm a prude. In this culture, sex is something like eating. No one is embarrassed about it and everyone talks about it in detail to those little more than acquaintances. The most surprising thing to me is how lightly everyone treats it. No one seems to bothered by the concerns I have about STDs and getting pregnant. I found out most of the Argentines have done things like had sex with more than 3 people in one night (that's separately mind you). And not that there's anything wrong with that, but it's just so weird to me coming from a country that politely ignores that people have sex. Unless they are gay of course, because then they are obviously have sex and that's against the law. oh wait, that's a different subject I don't want to get into here. After Never Have I Ever, they played some kind of kissing game that got increasingly more... exciting?dangerous? We finally left when two of the Argentines actually just started having sex on the floor. And as is was a one room apartment, we decided it was time to leave. At least is was her apartment. And it was her birthday, she deserved it I guess. :D

Anyway, we didn't leave until 7:30 ish... then we walked a couple blocks to Coco's house to make french toast. But none of the grocery stores were open yet so we just had instant coffee and crackers. After I went to Laurens house where we made french toast with apple bread (amazing) and chilled for a while. I finally went home at about 1. It was so cute when I got on the subte. I know I looked tired because everyone kept making room for me to sit down and offering me seats and stuff. They are so sweet these Argentines. lol. I also bought something from the people selling stuff in the train for the first time. I bought highlighters. lol. I needed some. shrug. I got home and crashed for about 4 hours. It was the first time in my life (i think) that I'd been up for over 24 hours without napping... and not having been on a plane. I talked to Royce all afternoon and went to be around 10:30.

I was awoken an hour later by Lauren who was calling to see if I wanted to go out and sing karaoke. ummm... i'm asleep. So I told her I would think about it and if I called her back I was coming, and if not, I was asleep. So I rolled over and closed my eyes and thought, "I just want to sleep, I have so much homework tomorrow, but then again I decided last week that the one thing I was definitely not going to regret about this semester is not having spent enough time studying... besides, I can sleep when I'm dead right?" So my eyes popped open and I got out of bed and went out to Karaoke. That is SO not like me. We got there at one... and saw the end of a really fun blues band. Lauren and I were the only ones there as Coco hadn't left her house yet. After a while Coco's other friends who I didn't know, but apparently Lauren had met before, showed up. It was really fun. I didn't sing. But the friend who's birthday it was sang and it was amazing and fun. Lauren sang a Coldplay song in English. I was impressed. I got home again after 4:30 and this time went to bed in earnest. I didn't get up until 2:30 this afternoon. horrible. Anyway, I still haven't studied, nor have I seen all the friends I wanted to see this weekend... but I am apparently a party animal... lol. go figure.

on another note, Lauren pointed out to me that if I drop my International Studies Major and just do Philosophy, I can graduate on time. And now I'm thinking about it. Who wants to take 5 economics classes anyway...