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Valerie loves Buenos Aires

Cats love the Recoleta Cemetery

We love boliches...

and mail...

and submarinos...

and the Rio

More to come, promise!!

One Month

I knew this would be something that I was terrible about updating, so I'll try to remind myself to do it more often...but it's been more than a month! I can't believe that it's been 5 weeks to the day since I arrived in Buenos Aires. The city still feels strange to me, but every day I get more and more used to being here and it starts to feel a little more like home. I moved out of my first host home about 3 weeks ago into another house, with a roommate named Rachael and a host mom named Marta. It's a much better situation, because I'm in a way better location and I'm not all alone!

My best friend Valerie came to visit this past week, and it was the most amazing thing ever. Everyone kept saying "I wish my best friend would come visit me!" and we just responded "that's cuz we're ballers! jajaja" (that's hahaha in Spanish). It was a crazy week and we did all of the best touristy stuff in addition to going out and living it up in BA (it was her birthday while she was here). One of the funniest parts was when we went out one night and met up with my friend Kellen from ISA. He had randomly met this group of French people at an ATM who are also studying here and we all ended up going out together. We were all sitting at a table and people were speaking French, Spanish, and English! There was one point when I was in a cab with Kellen, Valerie, and one of the French guys. Kellen was telling the cab driver that he speaks Spanish and English, I speak Spanish, English, and French, Valerie speaks French and English, and the French guy speaks French and Spanish! Ohhhhhh the things that happen here never cease to amaze me!

It's been such an incredible month that I can't even fathom the fact that I only have another 3 ahead of me! Living in a foreign country never stops throwing me off...especially when Valerie was here, I started to notice the real differences between here and living in the US and there are so many! I've just gotten used to how long everything takes here and how you really can't do ANYTHING without something going wrong, it's all really is just part of the adventure. I love the hustle and bustle of the city. I love trying my hardest to communicate in Spanish. I love how often I just make a complete fool of myself and how I've learned to laugh about anything and everything. There's been a few times in the last few weeks when I've been too exhausted for words and have just NOT wanted to put in the effort that doing ANYTHING here requires, when I've just wished that I was home where things were easy, but every one of those times has been dramatically outnumbered by the incredible and amazing adventures I've had thus far and will continue to do so! I miss home, but I couldn't be happier in BA :)

Since it's been a month I'm going to probably start to get a few trips in during the next few months. We're talking about Cordoba, Mendoza, Montevideo, the beach with my Argentine friend Rocio when it gets warmer, and maybe Patagonia...I can't wait to explore more of Argentina and South America! I'm loving life, and I wish everyone could share these incredible experiences with me! I'll update this again very soon (or at least that's what I'll tell myself now...)

Chau y un beso!