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Wednesday- Day 21

I had later class today so I got to sleep in a little bit. After class I got lunch with Caitlyn, Nicole, and Kelsey and then I went back to the UCEL café for a while to do my homework and then about half our group met up for helado near the school. We stuck around for a while talking and then I walked home before it got too dark. We had steak again for dinner and a spinach tarta. I didn’t do anything too interesting today and I’m going to bed early knowing I have a lot to do tomorrow.

Thursday- Day 22

Susan and I went to our UCEL class this morning. Last week we scoped out some seats in the back and tried to blend in and we did the same today. The group of girls in front of us heard us talking to each other in English and all of a sudden we heard, “chicas, de donde son?” (Girls, where are you from?) So then we talked to them a little before class. During class the professor put the class into groups for a project that’s due in May and Susan and I weren’t on the list so we weren’t in groups, the girls asked the professor about it and he said “oh yeah, the Americans” (we talked to him after class last week so he knew that we were foreign students) so now the entire class is in the know with that, we were a little embarrassed with about 40 students just staring at us. Then the girls were all over asking him to put us in their group, I think they are excited, and Susan and I are looking forward to making friends. I headed home for the rest of the morning after class and then met up with Maddie and Susan at noon to hop on a bus back to the mall. We got our Mexican fix at California Burrito Co (chicken, black beans, rice, salsa, corn- everything we’d been missing!) and then headed to the theater to see The Hunger Games! It was AWESOME! Best part was the movie was in English with Spanish subtitles so we could really just watch and enjoy for a couple hours and there were literally less than 10 people in the theater, I can only imagine how full the theaters in Indianola and Des Moines were! After we walked around a bit we got on a bus back to the center of Rosario and I walked home from there. I took a little siesta and then my host parents and I had salad, fish, and mashed potatoes for dinner. After dinner I headed back to UCEL to go to the English class again. Before the class started, I asked some of the students a few questions for a project for one of my classes and then they invited us to drink mate with them tomorrow so I’m looking forward to that and hopefully making more friends so we have more people to hang out and experience Argentinean life with. After English, several of us were going out with some of the UCEL ambassadors for a while before going home.

The Hunger Games poster at the theater!

Friday- March 23, Day 23

I had a double dose of class this morning with Spanish and our project class. Usually we have project class every other week (intermediate class one week, advanced class the next), but Susan, Caitlyn, and I had to go both this week and last week since we won’t be there next week because our bus leaves for Mar del Plata before our class would be over. After class I just went home and got some lunch and then took a nap and had dinner (chicken and rice) and later we met up with other Simpson students and the UCEL ambassadors at one of their apartments to hang out for the night.

Saturday- Day 24

I slept in this morning and later in the afternoon a bunch of Simpson students, an ambassador, and a girl from Brazil who is studying at UCEL met up in the park for mate and to chat. We were there for a while then split up to our homes for dinner (milonesa and salad) and met back up with less Simpson students and more ambassadors and other people for the night.

Shot of UCEL, my university for the semester

Maddie, Susan, Haley, me, and Addi with 2 of our ambassadors

Sunday March 25^th- Day 25

Slept in again and now I’m just sitting in an ice cream shop for the wifi and uploading pictures to Facebook. This weekend was fun and I liked having more to do and meeting and talking to more people.



Haley, Susan, Maddie, and me