I can't believe its nearing the end of my 3rd week here already! It feels like it flew by, and yet the amount of learning that I've absorbed in that amount of time could fill a whole lifetime!
This week I wandered around the city alot, leisurely, without anxiety! I went to the mercado down the street from my house and peaked into the big Catholic church around the corner. I'm thinking maybe I'll sneak into a mass one of these days... just to see what it's down town Retiro a little bit. I went to and Lavalle and Florida St. and did some window shopping around the crowds of eager futbol fans watching Uruguay lose its chance at the Mundial to Holland. I cruised down Corrientes Avenue, the Broadway of BA, and saw all the big commercial theatres which got really excited to check them all out! There's a comedy playing at Teatro Gran Rex called Los Luthieres and from the pictures looks like a bunch of old white Lutherans! Yes, Dad, I'm going to go see it! I walked to the center of 9 de Julio (no the street! not tomorrow's date!) and saw the huge obelisco. It was kinda unreal standing there in the middle of the city. All of the surrounding streets edged with elegant old European looking buildings and with flashy billboards fan out from this centrifigal point. That, plus hearing the surround sound of traffic horns and watching the red breaklights circle around the roundabout around me, made me feel like a tiny little neutron in the core of a grand nucleus!
So as you may have guessed from that last paragraph, the 9th of July is a big day down here! It's the Argentine Independence Day and tomorrow they will be celebrating the country's 200th birthday! It's quite convenient that all the cafes and shops in the city don't need to change their blue and white "Vamos Argentina!" banners and signs in the windows. They just add "Bicenentenial!" Most portenos, metropolitan city-dwellers that they are, still take any opportunity they have to celebrate by leaving the city. Therefore in a few short minutes I will be leaving with Ana, Jorge, Sofi, and Santi on a weekend trip to Carilo, an exclusive beach vacation city about 3 hours south of Buenos Aires. I'm so honored and excited that they invited me!
Hasta Lunes amigos!
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