So to pick up where I left off on Friday, I went with my roommate, Brittany, and Maggie to the Recoleta district. It is a French style about it, from the architecture to the numerous bakeries that were in the area. It is a more ritzy area than Belgrano/Nunez (where I live & go to school) so it was fun to walk around. On Friday we ended up stumbling upon Plaza Intendente Alvear. It was a grassy plaza with some statues, a church, and the famous Recoleta Cemetery. We peeked inside the church on Friday, and of course I forgot my camera again, so I just looked around. We had to make our way back soon after finding that plaza because we had to sign up for classes at 5pm.
Brittany and I got home and signed up for classes. I will be taking a Spanish language course, Argentine Economy, Latin America in the Global Economy, Political and Social Change in Latin America, and (in spanish) Latin American Culture. I will only end up taking one of the last two classes mentioned. I'm not sure how I'll do in an all Spanish speaking class so I'm going to test it out and I have two weeks to decide which class I will drop.
Later that night I met back up with Maggie to have dinner with a friend from the University of Arkansas that has been studying abroad in South America for a while now. We ate in China town and he shared stories about his travels and study abroad experience in Buenos Aires, Chile, Ecuador, and Uruguay. Eventually we headed over to have coffee and flan for dessert and we ended up watching a ridiculous game show, much like Dancing with the Stars but much more risqué. We said chau at the bus stop and headed home.
On Saturday Brittany and I ended up going back to the same Plaza with some other girls from our study abroad group. We had a lot more time to see the church and then we wondered around in the Cemetery. And! I actually remembered to bring my camera so here are a few pictures from yesterday.
This is the Church. Iglesia de Nuestra Senora del Pilar
And here are a few shots from the cemetary.
And this is Eva Peron's tomb
After all that exploring we found a Brewery in the same area and got some food and I split a beer sampler with another girl...she drank the light beers and I worked on the dark ones. After a couple of hours there I was craving something sweet so we got some ice cream, which is huge here even if its winter! When we started to make our way back to the subway we got pretty lost and ended up at the wrong subway station and eventually just took a cab home.
I'm not quite sure what I'm going to do today. Perhaps go shoe shopping for some leather boots?! Or find a museum to hang out in to escape all the wind we've got outside.
Tomorrow I start classes. My first class is at 10 am and considering the buses can take a while I'll probably leave and hour early just to be on the safe side. But this will be all for today's blog, if you want to see all my pictures from Saturday click on this link to find my pictures on Photo Bucket
http://s302.photobucket.com/albums/nn100/amywallace11/Buenos%20Aires/Recoleta%20Cemetery/
Catch Ya Later!
Amy
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