Then we took a placement test (oral and written) to see what level of Spanish we would be in come next monday!
Then one of the professors took us all to a "cellphone" place to buy one! My family is soo nice they got me one of their friends old ones so I don't have to buy a new one!! Then we all went out to eat at a really nice resturant... it was buffet style. EVERYONE was looking at us... they can all just tell we are not from here and it wasn't too long before Kelsey T. got asked where we were from. Part of it was our fault because of our United States way! In Argentina when you go to a restaurant you sit and talk and drink for a while then you order your food and sit and talk for a long time after.. For example the other night when we went out to eat, we got at the Restaurant at 9 ish and didn't leave untill 12!! :) haha! So it was our fault because as soon as we got there we went straight to the buffet, instead of waiting and talking and what not. Haha!! They even had like steak you could get. It cost 24 pesos... which is like 6 dollars :)
Our professor Eliana told Sarah and I that we looked like true Argentines! :)
My first piece of Cake here!! Something worth celebrating! :)
Then Nick and I went back to the cellphone place because they said they would have them all ready at 2:30.. But they weren't ready... no surprise :) So Nick, Devin, Thomas, Natalie and I went and got some ice-cream. I got a brownie with ice cream and it was only 10 pesos and was HUGE!! Needless to say I only could eat a fourth of it! :)
Then we all went back to the cell phone place and waited some more.... and while we waited I tried to convince Nick that he should grow a Mullett... :) .... Then is when the trouble started...
Devin wanted to go back to his apartment and grab something real quick, and on his way back stop and exchange dollars for pesos. I needed to go to. So Nick, Devin, Jessie and I set out... it started raining... harder and harder... my feet started to hurt :) and I was SOO hot with Jeans on... After 20 minutes or so we arrived at Devin's place and set out again to find the "exchange" place. I was still raining and I was still hot and wet and my feet hurt... OH it was not fun at alll!! Then we finally found the exchange place but I couldn't exchange my money because I didn't have the right identification. Then it was POURING!! We jumped accross a street that was flooding! and went into a cafe and then into a mall... It was about 4:45 and I had told my family I would be home by 5 so I tried to use a pay phone but of course that didn't work either! And of course ALL the taxi's were full because of the rain, but I didn't know what bus to use to get to my house either...
So finally the rain let up a little and we trekked back to the school and the cell phone place. I have never felt like such a whinny child in my life! Lol every other block I was asking if we were there yet! FINALLY we made it back and I walked around the corner and caught my bus for home... it was about 5:20 or so...
So then more trouble started!!... I didn't get off at my stop and went past is like 3 or 4 blocks. So I got off the bus and walked back... but before I knew it I was on Rodrigzs (sp?) street which was also like 3 or four blocks too far in the OTHER DIRECTION!! I thought I was on Camacarta St. but I was on Utzman (sp?) (A block just south of my house) and didn't recognize any thing but I knew I was close... So I stopped and asked a VERY nice girl what street we were on and where my street was. (I knew she was nice because she had on Converse :)) After much talking and pointing and map locating we figured it out and I set off again.. I was only about a block away...
BUT this time...I was still a bit turned around and I should have gone north but went south and was lost again... This time I asked a Blonde haired lady to help me... she finally just walked with me for a bit... and ofcourse asked where I was from. She said she had been to Minnepolis before :) Finally i arrived at my house!!! :)
It was a LONG day but my family made up for it! Im leaving for Buenos Aires tomorrow, the capital of Argentina, and when I got home Norma was making sure I brought all the right stuff and she had the address and number of the place we were staying and telling me to keep my money safe and what not :) The girls of course told he to stop worrying!
When they both got home they got out maps of the city and showed me all of their favorite places to go!
So im all packed and tomorrow I head off to Buenos Aires untill Saturday, so ill speak to you all then :)
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