A broad abroad
Dude, there so much has happened so far that I´m going to have to write this in sections. I´ll start with the flights. The first one was from Minneapolis to Atlanta and it was only 10 min late. I got there 2hrs early so that I could get through check in and security in 15 min and wait for another 2hrs, but that was ok because the whole group was there and we were talking and stuff the whole time. That flight was only 2 hours and I napped through most of it. The original layover in Atlanta was supposed to last only 5 hrs, but because of technical difficulties we had to wait an additional 4. But that was ok because we were waiting with this Argentinean men´s field hockey team and I´ll just say OMG caliente!!!!!!!! That flight was 10hrs and I felt really disgusting afterwards, but since we left late, we arrived late and we didn´t have the planned rest time so I didn´t get a chance to shower. After we dropped our stuff off at the Hotel in Buenos Aires, we took a tour of the city. It was a bus tour so we only stopped twice, but a lot of things were pointed out to us along the way. Our first stop was the Caminito Tango. This is a very famous street with a bunch of artisans and cafes. We stopped and ate at a little cafe that had a picture taken of Bill Clinton when he visited the cafe. It was raining at the time, but they told us that there are usually people who just get up and start dancing in the streets. When we return to Buenos Aires, I´m going to go back there and see if I can get a picture. After that we went to Ricoletta cemetary where Evita Peron is buried. It´s a cemetary for rich people and the monuments make it look like a little city. The cemetary is populated by the dead and more stray cats than I have seen in all my life. The cats are everywhere and they are totally not afraid of people at all. It was a little creepy. After the tour we went back to the hotel and took a nap. Nobody eats supper here until like 10pm at the earliest so we all went to this restaurante at like 9. We had to wait 2hrs for a table because it was that crowded. Finally we got in by splitting the group up. This was a little funny because all the fluent speakers went together and left the rest of us who don´t know as much at a table by ourselves. None of us had any idea what was going on and I´m sure the waiter thought we were crazy. Zach was the funniest though for two reasons. We all ordered bottled water (any entirely different experience) and when it came it was in glass bottles with the caps that you can´t open by hand. We didn´t know what to do, so Zach started opening them with his teeth. That is when the waiter came back with a bottle opener. Zach is in elementary spanish so he knows very little. At the end of the meal he tried to ask for the bill and tell the waiter that we wanted to leave at the same time as the other table. If you don´t know any spanish, don´t try to take charge of the situation unless you want to give your more knowledgable friends a good laugh. Well that was my first day in Argentina, I´ll tell ya´ll more later. Ciao