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The one with the catch up, Part I
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Oye, hello. its been a really long time since i wrote one of these...i wonder if i even remember how....
i´ll start with this...
Lost in the Library:
last night, after my psych class, the two other Flacso kids (i.e. kids in my program), some Argentines from the class, and I wandered around for about 45 min trying to look for the reading for next Tuesday's class. basically getting reading for classes at UCA (and i think UBA too...although im too scared to go there and find out) works like this: the professor either tells the students what reading they have set aside at the "fotocopiadora" o "apuntes" station or hands one delegated student the assigned readings to drop off at the copier, then its up to you to go and get the copied readings. once you get to the photocopiadora the real fun begins. its usually one big mess of people because you have to go after every class to get the new readings (they dont use textbooks here bc its too expensive and i guess copywrite laws must not exist...that or they just dont care about following any laws) so people are always going and smushing up to the front to get their copies. argentines dont really believe in waiting in line so you kind of smush and push around until you get to the front, depending on the location, you can either look up the reading on the computer to send it to the printer or tell someone behind the desk to pull out a binder for each particular class/ career. the mess of people aside that sounds relatively easy, except the readings never actually end up being there. so last night with the help from the argentines in our class, we trekked over to the library to check out the book and make copies with it....about 30 minutes later, and after enlisting the help of two librarians, we came to the conclusion that the assigned book was not in the library and we weren´t up for reading the "optional" assignment. but while everyone was looking for the book, the other Flacso kids and I just sort of stood in the way while we watched everyone else pretend to be looking for the books. seeing as there was no system of organization there (...or if they ever used the Dewey decimal system it has long since disappeared), i´m not sure how they pretended to go about looking for the non-present books anyway....
what did i learn from this episode: Argentina is not for people who consider themselves in anyway OCD, or even for people who consider general organization a sensible idea...nothing is ever organized and if it is it involves hours of red tape and waiting (like at immigrations)...
so then i went to spinning which ive actually been doing pretty frequently much to my surprise...i might just stay in shape while im here and not die when i go back to crew in January (yay...moment to be proud of myself)...
ok what else have i been doing?
not writing blogs bc i still dont have a computer...
besides that....lots of stuff...
Montevideo:
it was really fun, however in terms of cities, i definitely prefer Buenos Aires. Montevideo is like a less cool, younger sibling of BsAs, it aspires to be BsAs but doesnt quite get there, and while it has the potential to be cool and original its trying to hard to be like BsAs to do so and ends up acting like a poser...
We took this ferry called Buquebus to Colonia- a city in Uruguay directly across the river from BsAs- early Friday morning. it was probably the coolest ferry ive ever been on.
its a car ferry like you might take to Martha's Vineyard but once you get up into the part where you sit its really nice and comfy and its a huge space, its almost cruise-liner-like (except ive never been on a cruise, nor do i aspire to go on one). you can even go to a duty free store (oh boy!)! it was early in the morning so we mostly slept for 3 hours. then we got to colonia, walked to the hostel, checked in and went to a really really good lunch place owned by this precious couple Carlos y Ana, where we wasted away the afternoon eating and being generally lazy, much to the disappointment of Becca who had grand plans of actually seeing Colonia. It was dark by the time we finished lunch so we didnt really do much walking around the Old City, which is known for its original 16th century buildings which are still standing. im sure it was cute. we killed some time before dinner and then ate again, this time at a place called el drugstore. it was funky and we had a good time. we had enough wine at dinner to be pleasantly happy by the end, which was good bc the hostel was freezing since there was no heating and it was prob 40 degrees outside, so i guess i feel asleep contented even if i woke up feeling like a block of ice...
saturday morning we took a bus to Montevideo. although we asked for a direct route, we defeintely got the countryside tour with stops every 20min or so...
im really bored now and i feel like ive written enough to either a) satisfy anyone who wanted to know a little of whats been going on, or b) bore everyone else...
youll just have to keep checking to find out what happens in Montevideo (omg, this is so like reading a good book!!!)
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