it's been a whole month!!!

I cannot believe that I have been here a month. Everyone said that it goes by fast and that is absolutely the truth. In some ways it feels like I have been here forever because I know my way around pretty well, have already had so many adventures, have made new friends who I feel like I have known longer than a month and am fairly used to be surrounded by spanish! On the other hand, it feels like I just got here and that I have so much time left. I am 1/4 of the way done with my study abroad experience. In the next 3 months I hope to really improve my spanish, travel more, and be able to call Buenos Aires even more of another 'home' than I already can. As far as traveling I am headed to Mendoza the wine country on Thursday morning bright and early for Semana Santa (Easter break), am taking a day trip to San Antonio, spending spring break most likely in Patagonia at the glaciers and also going to Iguazu falls, spending a weekend in Uruguay, and then my family comes and we will go back to Patagonia and Iguazu. I am sure somewhere in there I will go to Tigre and San Isidro. Both little cities not too far outside of Buenos Aires. So needless to say I will be staying busy! I have decided it is always better to stay busy. The times I tend to get homesick (which doesn't happen much) are when I am alone without much to do. It has been a crazy month full of so many adventures! I can't even imagine reflecting on my time here after 4 months!!

This weekend was pretty relaxed. On Friday night I went to see Alice In Wonderland in 3D. It was cool to see a movie here. Thank goodness it was in English!! But with spanish subtitles. I was actually glad it had the subtitles because since the movie was spoken with a British accent sometimes I would be able to read the subtitles if I couldn't understand them talking!

was quite an experience. For my tango class we have to have traditional tango shoes. These are not normal shoes. They are high heels and the heel must be skinny!! Jackie, Meagan, and I met up in the subte and headed down to a certain street that had a couple of stores all together completely devoted to tango shoes and clothes. After trying on many pairs I settled for some called 'angela' they are kind of a platinum color with a t-strap and buckle around the ankle to hold them on! I am glad that my feet are no bigger because a 40 (equivalent to about a 9) is really the biggest size you can find here. In general I would say argentine people are smaller than Americans. And definitely skinnier!!! After we got the shoes we stumbled across the theater that was playing Beauty and the Beast on broadway (or La Bella y La Bestia as they call it here). We knew it was playing and that it had opened on Friday but we didn't know it was only going to be in town for a week and since we are leaving thursday morning Saturday night was our best option. It was entirely in Spanish but that really wasn't a problem. When they were speaking I understood most of it and since I already knew the plot it was no big deal! It was wonderful!!! beauty and the Beast was the first play that I saw on Broadway in New York so it was nice to see it again! It was fun to get dressed up a little bit and go see the play. We have made a decision to try and do some more cultural things in Buenos Aires! Sunday was basically just a day of homework!

My cultural learning class has been pretty stressful recently. With my visit on Thursday being in an unsafe part of town and just not being what I expected! I am going to add yoga today that is taught at the same university as tango so that if I decide to drop service learning later on I will be able to!