At the moment It is the summer holidays so I'm just hanging with the family playing games with cards, balloons and the pets. It's quite difficult to learn a complicated card game in spanish but I think I've got it, I've decided I'm going to teach everyone the game Truco because it is honestly a lot of fun, and we ARE going to need something to do when I come back in winter...soooo horrah!
On the 29th of February, I had my first disaster as a foreign visitor, I went to the main bank in Argentina with had the most amazing architecture that I had ever seen! I even commented that it was like we were inside Gringott's Bank from Harry Potter because it was so beautfiul. And in the center of the roof was this fantastic stain glass window depicting some catholic thing of somesort, The colours, The architecture, Oh how I wanted to take a picture so badly but there were signs saying no cellphones which is in this case, my cellphone is also my camera for this exchange. So I asked my hostmum if she thought that I could get away with taking just one photo, she said "I don't see why not". So I slyly stepped out of the bank line and aimed the camera, got the picture, and after I examined to see if the picture was good or not, I looked up and I had two security guards around me. One yelling something in Spanish and the other just staying quiet, my hostmum and a few ladies in the bank line were saying "he doesn't speak english! just let him have the photo! What's so bad about it!" But the security guard just kept yelling! "AEGERIUJKGLRERSJK" I forgot all my Spanish and my face went bright red! The other guard, who wasn't yelling, calmly said, "Can you erase the photo please" and did a little hand gesture which complimented his calm words. And so being the scared little foreigner I was, I slowly deleted the photo, showed the guards and stood back in line. I've decided I don't ever want to return back to that bank no matter how beautiful it all is!
Two days ago, I went for a run with Sophie, I died. And today I feel better, but my legs are still dead. I'm going for another run tomorrow though... lets see how I end up hahaha. As most of you know, Exchange students get fat. I plan to avoid this by eating healthy, except it's really hard because they practically eat a giant amount of meat for every meal! I literally had some off the side fat that I was cutting off, squirt into my face... D:Good news, I just asked my mum if she can buy me some muesli for breakfast and she said yeeeeessssss! woooo! Along with my immense targeting of the salad at meals, I think I will be successful and staying healthy. Huzzah!
Yesterday I went for a walk around El Bosque and took some photo's which I'm about to put on facebook! It was so nice, there was a band of people who all play drums to make this weird song, I can't really explain it but it sounded cool, and there was about a bagillion people playing football or drinking mate, It's definately the place for people to hang out! There's also a zoo next door which while we were on our run, we saw a protest happening, the urge to join in and yell at people for keeping animals locked away was definantly there but the fear of not actually understanding what was actually going on and making a fool of myself took over and we just carried on running. I'll save my activist side for when I'm fluent. hahhaha
Also, I get on really well with my family, we all like to bully eachother in a family kinda way, like my whole family laughs at Ana (my sister) cause she laughs funny and says some pretty stupid things haha, She thought spongebob was a piece of cheese when It's clearly in his name, I decided to join in on the teasing her last night by playing the card game "Pick up 52" with her... hehehehhehehehe
Apart from all that, Life is going well and I start school in 10 days... I hope everyone is having as much of an adventure as I am and I'll leave you with a nice photo of my running track :)
Adios!
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