Weekend Festivities
Trip Start
Jun 10, 2008
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Trip End
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Buenos Aires,
Argentina
Sunday, July 6, 2008
Decided to do a wine night at the residence and then went out (or tried to) to the Shamrock, an Irish pub/bar in Recoleta... They didn't let Graham in because he didn't have his ID with him, so Nisa, Graham and I went out to Plaza Serrano. Nisa's former Spanish teacher is a waitress at this bar there so we hung out for a little while, eating peanuts and drinking Quilmes beer. We passed by this one bar and I asked about something and the host thought I was Brazilian! That was very exciting =)
Afterwards, we decided to go to some bar/club nearby called Levitar, where we found a really strange couch that was only comfortable on one side and then slanted downwards and was generally pretty horrible, but we hung out there for a couple of hours. The things that drew my attention were: a disco ball in the shape of a camel (!), an attractive bouncer, and the fact that towards 4am, people were smoking SO much that it got hazy in the club and was hard to breathe and see
Jeremy, Me, and Nisa at the residence
.Saturday:
I woke up at around 2pm again (whoops) and went to the residence again to meet up with Graham and Nisa for some "Guac and Rock." We made guacamole, Graham brought his guitar, they played, I listened and sang a little (and learned a song! WOOHOO!), and recycled some beer bottles at Coto (the local Walmart type of store) only to buy more beer.
I was supposed to leave around 6pm to go bake a cake with Mark and Julia for Nathan, but never got her address and so just stayed at the res with the chicos. We went out and got some Chinese food, and Nisa tried to show me how she can stretch out in the doorway and hang in semi-mid-air with her head on one side of the doorway and her feet up on the other. And she almost fell. It was hilarious.
I met up with the StuyPlus group (Ben, Mark, Nathan, Cati, Andrew, Julia) and we went to Nueva Gata, which apparently had fantastic empanadas that I was too full to try. Ben told us a great story about how he met a waitress in Rosario (small city about 4 hours Northeast of Buenos Aires, and incidentally, where Che Guevara was born) and went out with her and her friends the night before
Me and Graham
. I gotta say, I'm kind of jealous of the fact that boys can do things like that without fearing for their lives or being raped. I would never go to a club with a stranger I met somewhere, much less a new city in a foreign country. We then headed to Julia's house to eat the cake! Julia lives with her aunt and uncle, so her "homestay" is actually living with family. I am jealous. Not only that, but their house is fantastic-full of art, books, a fluffy white dog... The cakes were phenomenal and we had a good time lounging around drinking tea and talking about language, accents, and how odd it'll be to go speak non-Argentine Spanish again in the states. Then the fun started. Julia taught us how to play this Italian card game called Escoba (means to sweep) that we played for a while before leaving...
Afterwards I decided to not be a flake and actually meet up with the Roadies at Dubai since I promised them I would. By this time it was already almost 3am, but here at this time, the night is young... Dubai was FULL, but I still got to say hi to Alfie (Road staff that also bartends on Saturdays.. and is VERY attractive) and get a free beer out of it =). John and I sang-yelled Madonna to each other.
Sunday:
The last Café Bercy brunch for most of the group... We met up at our usual 1pm and hung out and had our Desayuno Americano before parting ways. Tonight I leave for Iguazú, the famous waterfalls of South America. I'm excited, except for the fact that it's a 20 hour bus ride and I don't know if I can handle that. I'm going with Cati and Nathan and I know we'll have lots of fun, and I'll definitely update soon!
