This past week has been eventful, as usual. Julie came last Friday. She’s a new girl that will be living with us, from California. She’s very nice, but speaks little to no Spanish. I can’t imagine! I would think it would be hard, but she seems to be taking it all quite well. But I function as the translator quite often in the house, which is a good thing because otherwise I think it would be nearly impossible to communicate anything. Although at first I wasn’t sure if I was helping or hurting, because if I wasn’t there she would have to figure out the Spanish.

Last Sunday I went to a feria called Mataderos, which was fun. It was all gaucho themed, which are the old fashioned cowboys in Argentina. They had the old gaucho games that they played in the past, with horses and stuff. It was cool to watch.

Last week I started to practice soccer with the team finally! I swear the last three weeks I have wanted to go, and then it gets cancelled because of rain or whatever. So it was finally on and I got to play. It reminds me of when I was little playing soccer though, since it’s been so long since I’ve played on a real team. I feel bad that I’m like the worst player, but o well. It’s fun. Today we actually had a game! I didn’t realize it, but it’s actually the team for the University of Belgrano, where I go. So we play different universities throughout the season. I’m actually playing college level soccer! Haha, but it’s definitely different than the states…not as competitive or skilled. I mean it’s got to tell you something when I say we only practice once a week for a little over an hour. Oh, anyways, we lost 2-1, but like I said, it was fun.
So Thursday was an interesting day here. Andrea and I decided to go to the library to find some books on Tango because we wanted to get started on our super long paper that we have to write. Weelll, we arrived at the library, which is quite large, and went inside. We couldn’t understand exactly what the person at the front was saying to us, but something along the lines of we couldn’t check out books that day because of something that was going on. But he sent us up to the 6th floor anyways, so up we went. Well, we discovered that that was a room just for studying and reading or whatever. So we went in search of books. We had to have gone to at least 5 floors and never saw a book!