And my life continues...

Hola chicos y chicas.

Lo siento para mi tardanza (sorry for my tardiness). Lets see..where did we leave off? Day #2 I believe. So that Saturday morning we woke up for our next day of orientation. We had breakfast at the hotel and then we were off for a tour of the city with Gaby, our tour guide. Our first stop was in the center of Buenos Aires where we visited La Casa Roja (The red house, which was actually pink) comparable to our White House. We didn't get a tour of the full house but we did get to go inside which was pretty cool. Apparently Madonna performed from the balcony of this Casa Roja many years ago with a song called "Don't cry for me Argentina. Here are some lyrics from the song for your enjoyment. Feel free to search the song on you tube!

Don't cry for me Argentina
The truth is I never left you
All through my wild days
My mad existence
I kept my promise
Don't keep your distance

Anyway. We continued on our tour and visited a very famous cathedral, also in the center of the city. Before this happened our group had to walk through some ridiculous number of pigeons who didn't fly away from us but rather flew up and landed on us. Like if we had food. What an experience that was. I managed to catch a picture of 2 of my friends with the pigeons all around them. So Cathedral. My pictures can describe it better than I probably can but literally every inch of space was decorated beautifully with work which must have taken so long. Of course there were statues of Jesus and Mary, etc.. but one thing that I found that surprised me were texts saved mostly from the holocaust such as a passover seder, talmud tales, and other things written in hebrew and yiddish. I asked why this was in a church and the answer I got was that this was a way the Jewish and Catholic relgions can come together and support one another. After this part of the tour we head to La Boca, a supercolorful part of the city. There were many artists there selling their paintings which were beautiful, also tons of little tourist shops, and cafes. Very different place, and since we only had about 15 minutes there, it is somewhere I will definitely be visting again. We passed many other monuments and landmarks that Gaby pointed out to us. All in all, great tour. We then had some free time in Recoleta, the part of the city we are living in. The 12 of us sat down at a restaurant outside and had a delicious lunch. After we continued the orientation at Carmen's house (she also lives in Recoletta). We then came back to the hotel, had dinner, and enjoyed our first free night consisting of cervezas(beer) on the balcony of one of our friends room followed by a night out at a club. Culture shock=> We got there at 1am and there were maybe 10 people there, .and it probably didn't fill up until 3! I will never understand why people wait so long until they go out.

(to be continued)