Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Tango

I successfully took the bus by myself today!! True I might have gotten off a tab bit too late and had to walk a few blocks, but I still got there! We had the morning off so Taylor, Esther and I met at UBP at noon and explored. We found  a great little restaurant that had lomitos and other things. A lomito is a sandwich that Argentina is famous for. Its bread with mayo and lettuce tomatoes and ham and steak and an egg. Its pretty big but SO GOOD! I forgot to take a picture of it, but I will for sure be getting them again in the future so there will be pictures to come.
After lunch we had class. Today I understood about 40 percent. didnt know i could regress, but o well. Hopefully tomorrow we will go back to 60%!
Funny thing happened today- when we were waiting for tango class to start outside the office of our teachers, one of our teachers came out and talked to us a bit and said something about a cake. "una tarta". I thought she said there was a cake on the second floor because we had tango today? Didnt really make sense to me but who am I to turn down cake? So I went and found a bunch of the others and told them to come get cake. While we were waiting for the others, the same teacher walked back out of the office and walked by us and said something about 2 cakes. So now there are two cakes? I was really confused and the one kid with us who pretty much already speaks spanish told me that I now owed her two cakes. Apparently on the first day they told us that if they ever hear us talking in english that we owe them a cake. The kid with us who understood what she said was surprised that we didnt know they told us that on the first day and my friend Esther took the words right out of my mouth when she said "Sorry, but I dont speak spanish yet!" So there was never a cake for tango class and apparently I have to buy them two cakes now. Whoops.
After this fun misunderstanding we had tango! Argentina tango is very different than the tango we see in movies. It is very suave and romantic and danced with the two people very close to each other. Como se dice "awkward" en espanol? haha
but no it was really fun to learn and practice with each other and in my case, twice with the instructor.   I don't know why twice, but he found me twice. good times!

After tango I went home and ate dinner with my mom and one of my sisters. Ham and cheese sandwiches are very popular down here. But the bread is really thin and so is the ham and cheese. And the bread is crustless. I'll take a picture soon. I just don't want to be that tourist who always has her camera out! We dont have class until 2:30 tomorrow so I get to sleep in which will be very nice. Considering it is 12:51 and my mom and sister are still out! I have no idea where they went though, I should probably start asking.....

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