Arrival!

Saying good bye for a second time was easier then the first but definitely a sad good bye. I had just come back to the United States after being in Guatemala for two months and had been home for just a short 9 days. I was nervous, anxious, and excited all at the same time for another travelling adventure. Never in my life had I really travelled around the world and in one short year I was going to be living abroad not only in Guatemala but also in Argentina! Of course Argentina was going to be a lot nicer more metropolitan than Guatemala and I did not have to be as worried about getting sick again but of course I had my doubts. I shed a few tears as my parents dropped me off for another adventure!

After a 15 hour plane ride of which I slept about 10 hours of I arrived for my semester in Buenos Aires! We were greeted by IES program people and I met my best friend who will be my roommate for the next four months Jenna in the airport. We changed money and took a taxi to our home stay which is in a part of Buenos Aires called Recoleta. We arrived to an incredibly nice apartment of which our family owns the entire first floor of! Our mother, Gioia, greeted us at the door. She was extremely welcoming showing us around telling us to feel free to eat any food we wanted and to use the kitchen as we pleased. She showed us to our rooms which are two single rooms right next to each other which each have their own bathroom! Also the house has wifi which is a huge plus. We feel like princesses as we really feel so comfortable already with our home stay mom and the set up could not be more ideal. We basically live with each other but have our own spaces.

My bedroom!

My desk with a flat screen TV

The view of Jennas room from my room...SO CLOSE!

We unpacked our stuff and then went to a fair in town! It was a fair to celebrate the country called the "Exposicion Rural" and there were cages full of livestock and chicken and chinchillos! There was also some kind of horse show and lots of music playing. It was a cool first glimpse of Argentina! 

Such large caged chicken

Some with cool stripes!

And we cheersed to a great trip ahead! 

We returned home and met our home stay sister for the first time. She is 17 and is going to be a senior in high school and is also pre med. She could speak english almost flawlessly so we had great and normal conversation. She told us that night life does not start until 2-3 am and last night she came home at 7am...going to be a lot of late nights here!