November 9

I cannot believe that I haven't written in here in over a week. I've been so busy I could barely check my email. Good for me huh?!

Lauren introduced me to Jem and Sia! YAY! They are bands...

Actually up until Tuesday I hadn't written anything because I didn't have anything too interesting to say. I went to a Halloween party last Friday. It was fun, but it wasn't a very Argentine thing to do. And my costume pretty much sucked so, shrug. Saturday my roommates had another loud, live music party in our living room... through which I slept because I hadn't had much sleep the night before. Sunday, Lauren and I continued our tradition of sitting around, drinking mate, eating lots of food, and pretending to do homework. Monday morning we got up and had some really yummy oatmeal with maple syrup and then, inspired, I made french toast before dragging myself off to class. Later I did some homework.

Tuesday is when things started to get interesting. Lauren helped me skip tango again (turns out I'm getting bored with it), and we went leather shopping and ate ice cream! Then we went to her house to think of something to do... it was like, "um, this is lame. We are in Buenos Aires and we can't think of anything to do..." so I looked for some activities on the internet and we ran across an advertisement for the opera Madame Butterfly. So at 7:30 we decided to go to an Opera that started at 8:30. Lauren loaned me a cute black dress and some really fun light pink heels and we headed to the opera. We each paid 10 pesos for standing room tickets and entered the hall to my first professional opera experience. Luckily there weren't very many people there so we got to sit down anyway. It was fun! I think the most fun thing for me was that we could spontaneously decide to just go watch an opera. After it was over we walked to a pizza place and had some pizza and chocolate cake. We were rather starving as we had neglected to eat dinner. Then we tried to find a bus for a while before giving up and taking a cab. I slept at Lauren's house so I wouldn't have to pay for a cab. Wednesday I got up early to go home and change before my Spanish class. Then following the spending money theme of the week, Lauren and I went to lunch. After my dance class at 9 pm Lauren sent me a text that they were going to a tango club. So, of course I couldn't miss that. I quickly changed my close and returned to her house from which we walked to the house of a friend of a friend (raised eyebrow) and chatted for a couple hours in intermixed Spanish-English... not quite Spanglish... just in whatever language we felt like saying any one sentence. Then we went to the tango club and watched and danced tango for the night. It was quite fun I must say. I know I just said I was bored with Tango but what I really meant is that I am bored with the class. Anyway, I managed to get home around 5... a good 4 hours of sleep before I had to get up and go to the other side of town to finalize my student visa. Then for dinner I went out with some other friends from FLACSO to a Japanese food restaurant. We spoke mostly Spanish all night as one of the girls brought her friend from Colombia who doesn't really speak English. It was pretty good sushi despite the lack of flavor in the salmon. But it was fairly expensive. Oh, well.

It sounds less exciting on paper (or screen...), but Lauren and I are very proud of ourselves... going out three nights in a row... wow. lol. Anyway. I'm glad I'm finally taking advantage of being here. Now if only I can pass my international relations class... I'll be perfect! -ish.