Back in Rosario

I know its a bit out of order, but before I finish my Chile Blogging I thought I would share with you what has been happening here since I returned.

While our trip to Chile was WONDERFUL it was nice to be back in Rosario and get back into the swing of things! I had a few days of class and then it was the weekend!!

I just LOVE riding the bus!! Almost everyday I see ppl that remind me of someone from home! I love seeing the old men ride the bus and I can't help but smile when they laugh their old- smokey- grandpa- laugh! It reminds me of the old farmers back home!

On Friday night, Lucia, Norma and I ate dinner together. We had different kinds of empanadas!! Lucia left for a birthday party and Norma and I stayed up untill 1 talking about the sites in Rosario!! I got out my map and she showed me where all the important places were and the history to all the old buildings! It was WONDERFUL!!

I think maybe some of her personal opinion went into this, but as she told me the history of the buildings she mentioned how much rich history there is! ITS SOOOO TRUE!! She told me the sad part is that no one knows about it because of the government. And the more I am here the more I see how unstable and perplexing it is to me... for instance little things like stopping people from blocking the streets during demonstrations is illegal, but it is not stopped. People smoke pot while walking down the street. People are not supposed to set up sleeping areas in the bus station, but there are ppl all over sleeping there...Lucia said that "no one cares" I dont know that it is that no one care... but i think what she kind of meant was that there are bigger things to worry about than the homless who found a warm place to sleep at night. Im not quite sure what these bigger things are...as I see having a home VERY important, but maybe the problem is how do we fix this... how do they enforce all these things? I dont want to bash the Argentine government, that is not what I mean to do by any means, but for me it just seems soo different than home. Maybe its because I am from a small town and Im not used to this...

Any way back to my point about the history of Rosario! There is SOO much history, but it goes unnocited and unknown because there are not enough resources or time to dedicate to restoring these things and letting the information be known. Its very sad. It makes me sad to know that many people back home know little about South America, where there are so many influencial people, eye opening things, and such beautiful landscape. I too am one of these people, but I guess I hope to change that for myself and maybe a few others. :) Need less to say I LOVE ARGENTINA!!! :)