Ok so I was a bit slack on my blogging. Whoops. Noroeste was two weeks ago, and so this blog is about last week.
We got back form Noroeste at 10 in the morning, and when I got home, I was greeted but this! It was my youngest sister Marti's birthday, and all the family came over for a party. I hung out in the kitchen all day with my mom and grandmother and all the women making empanadas- I am a pro now. Get ready roommates :)
That night Taylor, Esther, Andreas and I tried a new church. We love the one we had been going to, but it was all the way down town and by the time we got home, it was past midnight and so we decided to try one a bit closer. The church was called Desarrollo Familiar (family development) and we loved it! We showed up early on accident and ended up watching the band warm up, and everyone do their pre-service routine. My favorite part was when everyone stopped what they were doing and got in a circle and just started praying out loud. It was amazing to witness these people so in love with the Lord, just talking to their heavenly father. Needless to say, we found our church!
During one song these girls got up and did this routine they had with flags- it was awesome. The song was Fee's "I am Free" or here it is "Soy Libre". Loved it.
(this was the best picture I could get without being obvious)
I had a paper to write so I skipped Tango, :( but I did really well on the paper so it was worth it.
Thursday we took a field trip and visited el Museo de la Perla, an old concentration camp that was used in Argentina between 1976-1983. Most people don't know this, but during that time Argentina was ruled by military dictators who basically kidnapped anyone who opposed them, took them to these concentration camps located all over the country, and when they were done torturing them, killed them and hid their bodies in the rivers. Very few people left these camps alive. Las Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo began protesting in the streets, demanding to know where their children and grandchildren had disappeared to. There were around 30,000 desaparecidos in total. It was the darkest time in their history and, I can not do it justice, so here is a link if you want to know more.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_War
That night we went to dinner and watched a movie- something that I miss so much! Before we left for dinner we went to Missy's and played with the puppies again or course. This is Archie and Esther holding the only three that are left Dora sold two already :(
The next day I went to Laurens and we made chocolate chip cookies!! We had an american recipies so everything was in ounces and grams so we had a very hard tme converting all of it (without internet to give us the conversions) so we guessed on a lot of it, but they turned out great! Her family loved them and it was great to have a little taste of home.
That night Esther and I went to Andreas at 11 to leave for Rosario. Rosario is the 3rd largest city in Cordoba and we just took a weekend trip. Andrea's little brother had a sailing tournament right outside of Rosario, so his dad offered to drop us off on the way there, and pick us up on the way home! A free fun weekend visiting this gorgeous city.
We got there really really early saturday morning and wandered around for a long time! The guide book was our best friend that weekend.
This is the Monumento de la Bandera (flag)- really gorgeous architecture.
Funny story- we asked a fellow tourist at the top of the monument to take a picture of all three of us. When we got done touring we went and checked into the hostel and looked over and the guy who took our picture was sleeping in the bed right next to me! Small world. And Luca was a character.....
(view from the top!)
We took a fairy ride around the city and they have a bridge that looks like a mix between the golden gate bridge an the cooper river bridge. It reminded me of home :)
That night we went to the observatorium that the guide book suggested and it was amazing. We thought it was going to be a big room where were could just look around and see the stars, but we ended up going up this tower into this tiny room with one guy behind this huge telescope. We were a bit nervous that it would be super awkward, but the people were so nice that it was great! We got to see saturn and had an hour long conversation with the two men about astronomy, in spanish!
All in all it was a god weekend.
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