Aventuras Argentinas: Second Days??

Now that I'm wired on coffee. I think I can continue to tell you how the rest of my week was. Right now I'm in a coffee shop. So far it's my fav cafe. They sell coffee and Ice cream here. I haven't tasted the ice cream yet though. I took pictures. Which I still have to put up. This coffee shop has much better internet than the place I'm staying. So while I'm still staying there, I think I'll come here to get internet. So where was I??

My first night at the Milonga Hostel was horrible. The showers are in separate room but at least this have hot water. After searching for other place friday and today (saturday) I found out the Milonga is actually ok for it's price. I probably could have gotten another place with better quality and cheap if I had known where to look when I was looking for apartments earlier. Milonga is one of the cheapest hostel around here for a decent price and the location is pretty good. I think I drank too much coffee. I'm not sure what exactly she gave me but it was good and I feel like I'm spiraling. Weeeee!!

Okies so the last three days I have been looking for other places to stay and I visited my school. The first place I visited was a bit more expensive than Milonga but good enough. The only thing I didn't like about it was that it was farther away from school. So I decided to look for better places. Then the next I decided to visit my school. One of the staff at Milonga, Pablo, he's my favorite, he told me which bus to take and everything so I got on the bus and got off at the right stop. Yay Then I spent a good 45 minutes searching for the office. To make things worst it was pouring raining outside!!! I only had on my new green rain jacket but I was soaked everywhere else. My school is also part hospital and it was integrated throughout that section of the city. So I would go to one office and they would send me to another office and then they couldnt understand me or I couldnt understand them and they would send me somewhere else. Something I found weird was I ended talking to this guy who thought I was registering for college and I could understand most of what he was saying but he couldnt understand me at all. I found it weird because his accent was different. Anyways I manage to finally explain to him what I wanted and I was sent to this other building which it turns out I passed because I didn't see the entrance. I got there and I'm trying to explain to the security guard what I wanted and he doesn't understand either so he makes from phone calls telling everyone that he calls how I can't speak spanish well, which is true but he didn't have to say it in every phone call. He was like " Hi, I have this girl who can't speak spanish well who is looking for blah blah" He could have just asked for my name... anyways it turns out that was the right building and they gave me the syllabus for my classes and I got to meet Dr. Damien Craimen.

He's basically the guy in charge of me. He's awesome. He speak three languages english, spanish and french. Anyways I feel like he's the only friend I have in this place because he is the only one who actually understands my situation. I guess he could relate because he has been to the USA and UCONN before so he knows where I'm coming from. He showed me around the school and showed me places I should go to and how to get a phone and other useful things like how to find other places to stay.

So at least I know how to get to and from school now. My next trip was to one of the hostels he recommended me. I did that earlier this morning. I was 10 minutes from where I was staying. I had a little problem with spanish here mostly because I wasn't sure what to say. What seems to happen to me is that once I start speaking spanish badly it starts to go down hill. lol And then they try to speak english to me which makes me upset so I continue to answer them in spanish. Anyways she showed me this small but decent room with a bathroom where the shower was weird. The shower wasn't sectioned off it was just between the toliet and the sink. Then she told me it was for 1000 USD per month. And of course I said no and then she told me I could have a smaller room for 545 USD per month. I told her I'll think about it and left. After thinking about it, I thought I should have yelled at her for selling me that room for 1000 USD per/month. Which person in their right mind would do that?? I wonder if she just did that because she knows I'm a foreigner. You really would have to be either desperate or stupid and naive to pay that much for the room when you could get apartments here for cheaper.

Things I notice about Buenos Aires so far are: a lot of people smoke, a lot more small business here, they call buses collectivas, this city is really huge. A lot of people smoke but I heard that's not unusual for Hispanic countries. The cigarettes here smell stronger than the ones in USA. I don't see much billboards so far but I guess I haven't been around much. I'm planning to go to a different place in the city every saturday. Today however, I'm busy looking for places to stay and I have to figure out how to get to church which is in a different part of the city. So the city have different sections. I'm in Recoleta. The church is in San Telmo and my school is in Congreso.

Hmm other interesting things. I need to upload thoses pictures and I saw an accident. Not sure how it happened but this car hit the right front light of another car. It was one of those accidents that shouldn't happen because it was at a traffic light so somebody wasn't paying attention to the light. I heard then crash then I turned around. Nobody was hurt though. The cars here are generally the same and crossing the road is not as scary as crossing the road in Spain aka no cars have almost hit me. The garages are underground. I saw somewhere that Argentina was the leading country in something about being green. I cant really see how. There aren't any smart cars here and unlike Spain there isn't any push to recycle.

Have I met any friends yet? I'm alone at a cafe.... There seems to be a lot of people at Milonga about my age. There is one girl who says hi to me when she sees me but I haven't spoken to any of them. They probably think I'm anti-social lol. Actually, I'm not alone because there is a lot of old people here. lol I guess I should be friendly. Initially I was afraid because my spanish wasn't that good but now I don't really care lol. I guess I'm more focused on getting use to things at the moment.

The best thing about living by yourself in a city is having the freedom to eat whatever you want when you want. lol I had a cappiccino frappe for dinner =D (Don't tell my mom) I've also been eating empanados for lunch.