Una noche en el museo!

First of all I'd just like to start off this post by saying "Stay strong Jasmin Sallis!". She's our family friend here and she's been really brave after she got paralized after being in the middle of the gunfight and a bullet hit her in the spine, so hope all goes well for the rest of her and that she can raise the funds for a surgery in China.

SO in other news, about a month left here in Argentina and I'm already starting to miss it... only about 4 and a half weeks of doing the usual, living a once in a lifetime experience. Everyday I worry if I'm not getting the most out of my exchange and want to find things to do with friends and keep improving my spanish! I'm not really not looking forward to the fact of leaving my life here, the people are amazing and I would do anything just to stay a little bit longer, cause I already know that time is going to fly! :(

This especially makes me sad when I had the best night ever on saturday night. There was an event happening called "Una noche en el museo" (A night in the museum) just like the movie, except what it was is that all the museums in the city were open and free for the night! with free buses taking you from the centre of town on a circuit round the museums, ALL COMPLETELY FREE!

So I started off the night waiting in the cold with my best friends Joaco and Juliana with our free fluro orange scarves that they were handing out, we waited in the line for what was probably an hour and then made it onto the bus that took us to the museum of Natural Sciences, it looked amazing from the outside and was way more interesting on the inside!

Once we made it inside, we didn't really know what to do first, so we went to the first room on the right...little did we know, but it was the trademark room with all the rocks and geographic info that every museum has and no one really cares that much about about... so in the end we made it to the section about planets and I took a picture of me with the sun, because well. It looked cool.

After realizing that none of us had any interest in rocks whats so ever, we made our way into the dinosaur and ocean life areas. That was when I realized that I had never actually seen one of those giant dino-skeleton sculptures in my life, nor a museum with dinosaurs. Do we even have them in New Zealand?? Anywho, I was a little guttered that I couldn´t take any photos because all the lights were off in certain parts of the museum, I think it was to replicate the night in the museum movie! The ocean part was pretty amazing too, with more skeleton sculptures and fakes animals everywhere. As you can probably tell, I enjoyed looking at things rather than reading the information about them.

After that, we we're beginning to notice that a lot of the people we're walking past with face paint on in different patterns, so we asked we they got them down and towards the stairs to the upper floor to the American Indian section. However, our stomach's became our number one priority as we stopped in the mini restaurant for dinner. All the usual meals were up for grabs, so we went in thinking that we we're going to get a wholesome hamburger for dinner. That's was when we ordered the crocodile instead... AND WOW! IT WAS TASTY! Kinda like chicken to be honest haha, We each had a little bowl and a kebab each with portions of crocodile meat, along with other foods such as potato, rice, shellfish and those really, really hot chillis that people are afraid to eat...Joaco...

After that, we made it upstairs to get our faces painted in some indian form. We found the lady doing it and she told us about all the traditions behind each pattern, I can't quite remember what pattern Joaco and I got, I think it was one to do with the Coming of Man or something along those lines and I think Juli got one about something to do with woman, as you can tell, I was just wanting my face to get painted. So once our faces were painted, we had to awkwardly ask people to take photos of us for the memories of a great night. Once we realised that it getting quite late, we decided that we needed to catch the next bus to make it to the museum of music. And so we took, one last photo of our indian selves and made our way to the busstop. What I didn't realise was that we actually missed out on seeing the room with all the mummies which I would have loved to have seen, but ohwell. I guess that can wait for another day... not that I have many left.

Although I'm one of the most musically uncapable people on this planet, I actually really enjoyed the music museum, although it's probably the most smallest museum there is; with it's total of 5 rooms that hold about 4 people in each. There was a little info about all types of instruments and you could play with most of them, so we made some pretty mean beats with the bongos, and I also now have bragging rights of playing a Gong.. After goofing around with the instruments, we learnt how a music box works and then made our way to catch the final bus home. That was when Joaco smudged his facepaint, and we decided that we should probably go get ourselved washed first..

So we ran across the road to the Shell stations and went into the bathrooms, too bad we didn't have soap in the boys bathroom because it turned out to be water-active paint and I just gave myself a giant black beard which had Joaco in hysterics haha, So Juli let us into the girls bathroom, and seriously I think it's a worldwide thing when the girls bathroom is 1000 times better than the mens haha, Once we had got our paint down to the dark tinge, we walked back to the bus stop, luckily the bus hadn't came yet and so we were able to make it back safely to the city centre.

It was at this point when we were laughing and joking around with my camera on the bus, that I realised that hadn't had a night like that in such a long time, a night where I could finally relax and be myself with my best friends. I'm really going to miss argentina, so from now on I plan to make the most of every moment here and make the best memories of my life! Argentina, te amo!