Day 6 - Buenos Aires - The Grip
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Buenos Aires,
Argentina
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Today we are out of clothes or rather I've got tired of wearing used items, remembering that I surrendered space in my rucksack for schoolbooks, medical kit and electronics items. Off to our first visit to the launderette before our fourth day at Spanish school. Without a tv and limited internet access we are almost ignorant of news and I have been curious by the growing number of masked clad locals. I was a little take aback when the launderette manager said in a disturbingly concerned tone "be careful". Until that point I was happily naīve and that has quickly been replaced by "extremely cautious" after I checked the internet at my next opportunity to find that 43 Argentinians have died from “the grip” (swine flu), 17 today and they have just declared a state of emergency in Buenos Aires. There were no deaths when I checked a week ago. Flights from Mexico suspended, we are going there in 10 days time, and all visitors from the US, Canada and Mexico have to report to the health ministry, nothing about Australians yet. Needless to say we wont be travelling on any packed commuter trains or buses anytime in the near future. Today we stayed simple, laundry, Spanish, a Spanish film at the school then back to the homestay, and extra homework for the kids. We may be here longer than planned!
Jody's Story
Today we had our 2nd last Spanish lesson of the week. It was fun like every other day. We played Ping Pong and talked about animals and did stuff like that. After our school we went to Pizza Bum again. We got Spaghetti, Pizza and Toasted Sandwiches. It was very yum. After lunch we went back to the school and did the afternoon cinema class. Me and Niamh played Ping Pong and Foosball while mum and dad watched the movies. After that we came home and did our homework. We had to do maths. It was muy boring. I did 7 pages easy peasy lemon squeezy. After that we played a bit, had dinner and went to bed.
