Backdated Blogs (as promised): 21st Birthday!

11, 12, & 13 de Octubre

"I have the best families in the entire world! PROVEN FACT! Well, in the Americas at least. PA PANAMERICANA! And and Jorger and the family just threw me an asado on the roof of our building! It was lovely. A salad of tomatoes, eggs, and potatoes, bread, chorizo, blood sausage, and 2 different cuts of really rich meat. I ate it, and I liked it, and I even wanted more, that's how I know Argentina has transformed me! There was red wine and a delicious torta with dulce and this really sweet syrup that Ana made for me. They sang for me in Spanish and we took lots of photos and I just love them. So much! I'm terified of being forgotten when I leave, that the next girl will be cooler than me, and that I'll never actually come back to Argentina.

This morning I received a care package from Mom at 10:30am. It was a beautiful chocolate birthday cake that read "Happy 21st Kelly!" conceived in the EEUU but baked and delivered in Buenos Aires.

Erica, Tom, Emily, and I went to the park this afternoon and it was absolutely heavenly, filled with Argentinos, performers, families, and the 4 of us eating birthday cake, sandwhiches, and drinking mate. A rasta vendor came by and gave me a free ring when they told him it was my birthday. Later that night, I brought the rest of the cake home and let it loose for the starved sugar-hungry hiyenas in my house, I stole a slice and took it downstairs to Juanito at the gate. Then we went out to the Thelonious jazz club and shared a bottle of Cabernet, the boys ordered dirty martinis just to be cool while Emily and I shared a cheese platter. I got a glass of pink champagne and a frozen mojito bought for me... CLASSIEST NIGHT OF DRINKS EVER!

The following night I went to see La Tragedie Florentine and Violanta, 2 one act operas about love triangles and death. Very impressive! The Teatro Colon is so grandiose, so lassy, and just plain gorgeous really. I felt so erudite just being there amongst the men in tuxes and women in evening gowns. The voices were spetacular also of course!"