The first days

It's about time I started to write something in this. I waited a long time because I wanted to get adjusted but here goes.

So plane ride from New York. There was a flight to Korea at the same time and there was a lot of Koreans there. I wanted to talk to them sooo badly. After I learn spanish, Korean will be the second language I learn.

Anyways, I slept most of the flight so the six hours seemed short. I flew over Cuba and Jamaica. That made me happy. I know how my country looks from above. It reminded me that I moving on to bigger places. Once I reached Colombia, my first goal was to get my luggage off the first plane (Avianca, I recommend this airline. They had a lot of movies and games on the plane for entertainment) to Aerolinas
Argentinas. I got my two heavy bags then I was told I had to wait three hours to check in because Aerolinas Argentinas didn't open this early ( I got to Colombia at 5 am Colombian time). I found it funny that I could actually go out in Colombia and come back for my flight which was 6 hours away. I didn't though. I sat down in the airport for 3 hours. After a little problem with overweight bags and exchanging USD to Colombian pesos I got to the gate and waited for another 2 hrs.

The flight to Argentina seemed soooo long. It also took 6 hrs. I was impatient by that time. I slept for the first three hours. They gave us a good amount of food which was good. They played two movies. I don't know the name of the first one but the second one was Date Night with the guy from the Office in it. I miss watching the Office. The cool thing about this flight was that I flew over south america so when I looked I could see many mountains and rivers. It was really cool. Too bad my camera was dead. =( Flying over Argentina at night was the most beautiful. It was surrounded by golden lights. Soo prettty!!! The landing was kinda bumpy but I was glad to finally arrive after a whole day of traveling.
I got into Argentina ok. Yay being a Jamaican citizen. Americans have to pay money to get in. The lines were long to get out of the airport though. My first disapointment was the the place where I was staying didn't pick me up. These taxi guys saw me and helped me get money at an atm and took me to the place. Sounds sketch right?? I was a little scared but they kept assuring me they were from this taxi company and they were safe. So I had a nice conversation with the driver while seeing Buenos Aires for the first time. This city is HUGE and they have highways and tolls like we do. I passed the Obeslica, which is a monument to their independence. The driver also showed me famous shopping and theater places.
At the hostel I was staying I checked in, because I reserved my spot and now for my second disappointment. I'm going to put pictures of my room up. It's pretty bad. It made me really upset but I was too tired to do anything or to think logically about it. It made me want to go back home after being it for 2 minutes. The bed is really hard, there is barely a mattress on it. So it was hard to fall asleep that night and there were a lot of people up talking until like 3 in the morning. So my first night sucked and loneliness was seeping in. I was beginning to understand how crazy I was and how alone I was. I've never stayed in a country with no one to go when I needed support or help. I have family in a lot of countries Jamaica, USA, Canada, England. Ok maybe that's not a lot but I have support there. Anyways, you are also probably wondering how I handled the spanish. I've taken five years of spanish and I've been to Spain. So it was a little hard because my spanish was rusty and I forgot a lot of things. I also didn't practice much before here. So before school starts I'm going to review some grammar. Colombian accents were also easier to understand than Argentinan. That's probably because I'm use to Colombian though. Anyways in my next blog I'll give details on they days before school started.