Life in Argentina

Internet again was spotty this week, and classes take out a huge chunk of my time, hence my very tardy blog entry 🙁

Classes!
Classes finally started this week, and my expectations were beyond met, my fears somewhat erased and my responsibilities defined. I was placed into a spanish level class with other average, if not better, speakers, so it will be a challenge ( and is sort of) to keep up in class, but I am definitely learning a lot everyday. In class, we have projects every week to better immerse ourselves in spanish and into the Mar del Plata area, so that we don’t miss anything cultural while in class. For the first week’s project, we compared salsa in the classroom with salsa in a salsera ( a salsa club). I mean come on, isn’t that the best project ever to do- to go to a salsa class only for 6 pesos ( that’s less than $3 for an hour’s worth of a class!) and then go to a salsa club?!?!

Learning turns in the salsa class!

Yummmy food!
After about a week here in Argentina, I have finally had a great asado. It cost me about 50 pesos, or $13 american dollars for a great barbecue spread of chicken, veal, sausage, pork and beef. I’m still full from it, and I had it two days ago!

Talking about great food, I have also gone to this chain restaurant called Manolo. It has amazingggggggg churros ( better than the ones I normally get at Costco or anywhere else in the U.S) ( get the ones with dulce de leche), and great hot chocolate ( so much more thicker, less milk and hands down beats the hot watery “chocolates” from NY). We’ve gone there three times so far at least this week alone, so it will be off hold for a while, but sadly it isnt in the U.S except in Miami alone, so we’re trying to figure out the best balance to getting the most of Manolo’s as possible.

But this week was also a mix of bad food as well. We went to a restaurant for lunch one day hoping to get some good meat, but ended up with bad service and sad stomachs. But we did end up learning one important word : pecho/pechuga de pollo is chicken breast,which is something we almost order all the time.

Yesterday, we finally made a shopping trip to Guemes, and saw some great finds, but there really aren’t enough hours in the day, and so we will be returning soon to make better and more purchases:)

Now onto bowling and the rest of the week!