So I know it’s Wednesday already, but I’ll recap my weekend anyways. On Friday I went with Andrea to an “international night” put on by our university. I was assuming that it would be something like what our university has put on…pretty quiet with some cool food to try. Well, was I in for a surprise or what. I went down to the basement of the university, where the even was being held, to discover blaring music and something that resembled a crazy dance club with beer chugging at the United States table to tequila at the Mexico booth. Just about every booth had alcohol and most of the students were taking full advantage and getting quite “borracha” (drunk!) Needless to say it was a surprise…and something I don’t think I would ever find in a building on our campus!

After that Andrea and I went to the weekly Vida meeting to chat with friends and hear about the recent missions project that went on in the north. It sounded very cool and I’m sad I missed out on it! BUT there is a mini missions project coming up later this month that I am hoping to take part in. I’m not sure on all of the details, but they are doing it for “dia de los estudiantes” (students’ day) to show young people how to have good, clean fun. It’s a day that all students get off of school (too bad it falls on a Sunday this year!) and get to enjoy the new spring weather. I hope I can go!

Saturday Abby, Katie, Andrea and I decided to try and attend the semi-finals for the tango festival that had been going on all that week. Well, when we got there we found out we had to wait to see if there would be room because everyone already had tickets. Luckily we made it in! It was very cool! It was an international competition with people from Japan, Italy, Germany, Colombia, Argentina, etc. There were some very cool performances and I’m so glad we went. And to top it all of, it was free!! You can easily pay at least $30 bucks for a tango show with only one couple, whereas this one was at least 25 couples…and we left early!

Then that night the four of us went out to eat at a restaurant with Indian food. It was actually my first time eating Indian food and I enjoyed it. It was spicy, which was a GREAT change from the quite bland food that you usually encounter. Argentines don’t like spice in their food.

Sunday, like a faithful little girl, I went to church. However, someone neglected to inform me that there were no services! Haha, I felt quite silly…but it all worked out because I had some errands to run anyways. I went to the feria in San Telmo and got to have quite a long conversation with a guy who was selling scarves. He didn’t speak much English and, therefore thankfully did not want to practice it, like most people here. So hooray for actually practicing my Spanish!

Last night I went with the stinters and Vida people to eat tacos at a place called California Burrito Company. It’s actually like Qdoba, which is amazing, because no one here sells burritos or tacos. I’ll be going back there J I also learned how to make gnocchis yesterday in my cooking class, which are traditional pastas here. I can’t wait to get back home and start baking all of this stuff!!

And lastly...I will be living out of a suitcase for about a week now. We have a new girl coming from California named Julie to live here and she's taking over my room. I will be moving upstairs into a bigger room actually, but it's not done being painted yet. So I'll be sleeping in the kids' loft until next week or the following.

So that's it!