week 3 & 4

Hola amigos,

I`m not sure anymore what I wrote in the last story but I`ll try to remember everything what I`ve done since then.
I have to say first that my english got a lot worse since I`ve been studying spanish, but at least the spanish is getting better. I started having small conversations in spanish, but it is difficult because my vocabulary is of course still not very big. And after 4 hours of class every day, you sometimes are a bit tired of trying to speak.
Again no pictures unfortunately, it is somehow impossible to find a proper computer here. The last photo upload took me 4 hours, and I`m not feeling like doing that again.

Together with a friend from the school (Valérie, she is in the same hostel now) I visited some places. One is the cemetary in Recoleta, where Eva Peron is burried. The cemetary was big and a little bit similar to the one I visited before (Chacarita), but the atmosphere was a lot nicer. Also in Recoleta was a small fair where we walked around.

With an other friend I went out for dinner and had my first real Argentinan meat, which tasted exactly like it should taste. Coming wednesday I`ll go to a parilla with a few friends from the school. Parillas are Argentinan restaurants in which you can eat a lot of meat (really a lot). Something you just have to do I guess when you`re in Buenos Aires.

This week I visited the Jardin Japones, a small garden, it looked kind of cute. That evening we had a wine tasting in the city. We tasted 3 malbec`s, one from the south (Rio Negro), one from the north (Salta I believe) and one from Mendoza. I did not like all of them but the evening was very nice. I hope that when I visit Mendoza (if I will do that) I`ll have a winetasting there as wel.

With Valérie I went to the cinema in the city center to watch the movie `Que voy a hacer con mi marido` (what am I going to do with my husband), in english of course. Nice to be in a different cinema for a change, but I prefer the one at home.

At the school there were several small activities, we played tablefutball and I had a tango lesson, which I really enjoyed. The basics are very easy, but I guess I won`t get to the more difficult steps.

Yesterday I went to San Telmo (the street with the fair) again, but it has been raining the last few days and yesterday again, so there was not much going on. I made a tour in a very interesting building. El museo Èl Sanjon de granados`. A building that was connected to other buildings through underground tunnels, but there was not enough money to restore everything so there is only a small part to visit. In those tunnels they collected rainwater. First a rich family had been living in the house, and after that it was used as a convent. A lot more I did not understand, since the lady spoke in spanish and she had apparently already forgot that I asked her to speak a little bit more slow. I think I`ve not heard anyone speak that fast before in Argentina..

Today is a very boring day, no school today because of a national holiday, and the weather is bad again so there is not much going on.

I`m making plans for a trip to Uruguay and Iguazu and I still want to visit `La Boca` I think.

That`s it for now, I`ll write again when I`ll write.

Ciao