CONCERT and Crazy Taxis

I just got back at 12:00am from a Luis Fonsi (Fon- zee) concert! It was really good! He is kind of popish, and his slow songs werent my Favorite, but he was good!! :) I had a good time! Before, the concert we meet by Jesse's house and walked to that really cool resturant Lucia likes. We ate there, and it was great!! :) The store/resturant/bar is just soo trendy! :)

On my way to meet everyone I took a taxi, and my driver was really nice. He spoke really slow for me, and drove nice and slow too! We just talked about studying in Rosario, and how BA compared to Rosario. I think most people here think I'm from Argentina... several people in BA did, but after a few sentences, which usually involve me asking "What?", their next question is "Donde sos?" or "Where are you from?" Haha!! I am kind of timid to say Los Estados Unidos, because sometimes that is not a good thing, but its usually okay.... more on that later.

So we sat/stood in the nose bleed section, but it was still a lot of fun!! I went with Jesse, Kelsey, Sarah, and Eric. (Ill put up pics this weekend)

The place was packed, and there were screaming girls everywhere!! :) Many of the little kids that were there had taken off thier shirts because it was soo hot! I think, pda, and what people do in public are a bit different here. For instance, the bus was again EXTREMELY PACKED this moring, so I squeezed my way back a few rows and took a standing spot by a mother and her young son... A min or too later, after I took my backpack off my back and held it in my hand so I could see it, I saw this mother was actually breast feeding the child! ha! In the park or on the street it is not uncommon to see this or two lovers litearly making out! Ha! Im not sure how I feel about it... like I know it is just part of the culture, but I wonder if it "feeds" into another part of the culture like realationships, friendships, and family....??


SOOO after the concert we walked Jesse and Sarah home and the three of us got a taxi! First off, many people drive CRAZY here, or what we see as crazy! We were walking on the street to Jesse's place, and NO JOKE the bus that went by us like "brushed"/ hit" Eric's arm! He was okay, but it was really really close!

Now this taxi driver was crazy! Now a few things to know... most of the streets are one way, there are no lines to make lanes unless it is a main road, and they fit about 2 or 3 cars on the road, and that counts the parked cars. Here, many corners do not have any signs at all... so many people drive with their lights off and as they come to an intersection they "kind of" slow down and they flash their lights so others know they are coming through. Or more popularly... like what our taxi driver did at the intersection, was to drive really fast to catch up to the car just infront of him. Then as the other car went through the intersection we just got on the opposite side of the traffic and followed him through too. They seem to try to go through intersections in "groups" I'm not sure that made much sense..

Now, to catch a bus or taxi you just throw out your hand like we do! And as I learned quickly... taxi's with red lights mean they are unoccupied.

But or taxi driver tonight was CRAZY! First off he was driving a MILLION miles a minute, and he would barely slow down at intersections. Then all of a sudden he asked Eric, who was sitting in the front seat, he felt his phone. THEN when he did find his phone he STARTED TEXTING!! AHHH!! lol! Needless to say I was glad to get out!

So that's all I have for now about Their crazy driving! :)

I also think...no, I KNOW, Im 100% SURE I have the best family to live with in Argentina... no joke :) Edgard asked me today what I liked to eat for breakfast, so they could buy me food. :) They dont eat cereal, but I like bread. As most of you know, Im not too picky when it comes to eating :) Im slowly learing where the food is, but I still feel weird looking through their stuff. Yesterady I thought I was using bread and jell on my bread... it was actually mayo!! LOL!! Also this morning, he told me to have cookies for breakfast ... so I did :) Just a few...