Back from San Pedro

Thursday afternoon the IES crew took our whole group to San Pedro, a city in the BA province about three hours away from the city. It was a lovely area and our hotel looked out over a cliff onto the water. They took us to an incredible dinner in an old houseboat on the water and we had ourselves an INCREDIBLE asado: the Argentine of amazing BBQ. We had chorizo, steak, ribs, chicken, salad, wine, bread, adn yes...french fries. Go figure! Haha. Before dinner we played in a volleyball tournament against a local team and were completely obliterated. But then we mixed up the teams and really had some fun. On Friday, we walked around and took pictures and had a delicious pizza for lunch. Individual pizzas were only 5.50 pesos...about 2.25 dollars! The exchange rate is really in our favor here...1 USD to 3 pesos!

We headed home around 4:00 and had a chill night last night. By chill i mean we had dinner around 9:30, then i took a nap and then we met at 12:00 to go to an Irish pub called the Shamrock. The line was wrapped around the block to get in so we said forget that and hopped around to some other places and just chatted the night away. Today on the agenda is a trip to the Recoleta Feria, a craft fair that happens every saturday and sunday here in my neighborhood about 5 blocks from my house. Mom, i wish you were here to come with me!!!! You would love it!!!

I'm having an amazing time here so far, but I must admit the language barrier can be a constant headache. I love the language and i'm working really hard to understand everything, but there are many times where i just want to scream because i have so much to say and am lacking the means to express it. I'm working through it though and i have some good friends here that are definitley in the same boat as me. I'm starting to get my first cold too...sniffle sniffle. haha all of the late nights and adjusting to the food and water is finally catching up with me. Well I must be going, its a beautiful day and I'm headed to the fair!

Chau,
Amanda