Exploring

Something I have really come to enjoy in this country is exploring. The other day I found this really great little store on the way to my bus stop that has really great fresh fruit and so now I stop in daily. I hope to make friends with the check out girl, but as of right now we only say hi, how are you, and do you want a bag? Baby steps....

This morning I went into the shopping plaza near my bus stop and found the Walmart of Argentina!!! Libertad. It is wonderful. They have everything from TV´s to washing machines to food. I had so much fun going up and down all the aisles looking at all the random things they had in there. I spent like 10 mins in the cookie aisle examining all the different kinds and finally decided to just grab a random one and try it. Grood choice because it was delicious. I also needed body wash which I figured would be simple because they have about 100 different types of shampoo. But no, it took me 5 mins to find the "section" for body wash and they only had 4 differnt kinds. I guess everyone here just uses soap? No sé.

Class was good and then we played fútbol which was great. We played on this concrete field which was a little weird but it's ok because I didn't touch the ball much. I thought that my 7th grade soccer skills would be sufficient for the pick up game we were playing- nope. The less they passed to me the better, but it was still fun. :)

That night the school had a party for us because our intensive month of classes is over. (we actually have one more week but we had to party anyways) I was supposed to meet Taylor and others downtown at 11:30 and for once I was actually on time!! But they were not. I ended up grabbing some ice cream and people watching for an hour which was incredibly entertaining. Everyone in Córdoba is in a relationship and they just walk around in circles holding hands and making out. It was 12:30 when I finally left and there were families just sitting down to dinner- still can't get over that.
The party was fun, and when I say party we just went to a specific bar that we had our names on "the list" and got a coupon for a free drink haha, but it was fun to see all the tutors and hang out with everyone outside of school. We got there at about 12:45 and it would have been more fun if I didn't have to wake up the next morning at 6, but thats for the next post.

Mom, these trees line my street and I know you love them so I took a picture for you: