Take It Easy But Take It

I've been here one week now, and I feel that means I should update!

My days are structured around the Spanish class I am taking. There are about thirty of us, split into two groups. While there is definitely a handful of Americans, there are also Australians, French, German, Danish, Swiss...  Somehow, the language that everyone speaks together has become English (because some of the students have learned English up to this point better than Spanish). So that's interesting. I'm hoping once classes at the university start (in August) that it's just Spanish being spoken.

Goal: To come back with no trace of an American accent (...we'll see how that goes). 

Class is from 2-6 each day (with the exception of Thursday when we took a tour in the city) and people tend to reunite each evening for or after dinner. I feel like I'm getting a really good feel for the area, but I also know that I can't go out every night-

take it easy but take it

Live in Belgrano, go to bars in Palermo, explore San Telmo.

"Weeknight" seems to hold little meaning.

Tomorrow I'm going to this 'drum circle'-esq thing that should be awesome. It's every Monday and I keep hearing different people reference it. 

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love.love.love.

Argentina!

     So I am finally in Buenos Aires. The neighborhood I'm living in is called Belgrano. It was described as residential, but it only feels that way in the sense of "you're living in a big city", which surprised me. This is only my second night here and not too much has happened so far. I'm living in a homestay with another older woman. She is super nice, and lives with her son and another student in BA who is from Bolivia. It's a small and simple apartment, but it feels comfy to be moved in somewhere. Tomorrow we have our first day of the three-week long language class. It should be exciting to be in a class with all the other international students at Di Tella, and to be pushed to go outside and be a bit social. 

I do miss home, obviously. It's not a painful homesick, because I know that I am here now and that I am doing THIS. But home is on my mind often and being there for a bit was really super great.

     The reason I wanted to write an entry now is because I just had a strange experience. I decided I wanted to take a picture of me, here in Argentina. Just a simple self-portrait. So I was trying to do that and after each picture I would think, "is this what I look like in Argentina?" because I wasn't sure what looked truly the most simple and honest. I'm not sure if that is hard to understand, I don't think it is. 

Anways, so I decided to post the one that I chose, and I'm not going to explain it at all. I just want you to look and think about it. (You can choose whether or not to let me know your conclusion).

love.love.love.

Claudia