Buenos Aires aka Baires

Well I´m back in BAIRES....and very happy to be here. It´s such a cool city. I will be here until monday....I think, then back again on thursday or friday. I´m hoping to go to a futbol match here in BA either tomorrow or next sunday. Apparently it´s a lot of fun. I´m still not used to how late everyone eats and goes out. It´s crazy to me. I like to go to bed at 11 or 12 and here the party doesn´t start until 1 or 2am.....whoa. I must be old or something. I´ll post more pictures soon....especially if I go to a futbol~soccer game. If people are reading this, leave me some posts so I know how you all are doing and what you´re up to! Cheers!!

Rosario

Hola Todos! Estoy en Rosario pero voy a regresar a Buenos Aires mañana! Mi amiga de los estados unidos veine el proximo viernes. Rosario es un cuidad mas pequeño de Buenos Aires. Yo camine por el rio. Yo tome mucho sol hoy. Voy a Iguazu Falls muy pronto con mi amiga. Hasta 20 horas de Buenos Aires, mas o menos. Espero que tengas un buen semana!!! Nos Vemos.....

The first picture is of Casa Rosada...the pink house (like our white house). This is where the president of Argentina is flown in by helicopter everyday to work. Nice way to beat the traffic!

The next picture is in La Boca. This was a tango demonstration that they have outside most of the restaurants there.

Me and my Colombian friend Juan.....Me in my second day of wearing the same clothes since my luggage did not arrive with me. Thankfully it got here later the next day!

Looks like Washington D.C. with the Obelisico...spelling might be wrong. This is on the largest street ever. You can only make it across the entire street if you run and I mean seriously run!

The last one is a picture of la puente de las mujeres. It´s a beautiful bridge in Puerto maderno....a great place to run and awesome architecture. I have a gazillion more, but will start with these.

Buenos Aires......BAIRES

I know I´ve been quite the slacker when it comes to blogging. Sorry about that. I´m going to try to get better at that. I have been in Baires for over a week now. The city is very big, and lots of fun. They never sleep here....I swear. People don´t leave to go out until 2 or 3am......while I´m sleeping....I just can´t hang. I guess I´m old or have just never been much of a partier, but it´s all good. I´ve seen most, or i think most of the city. I met a guy from Colombia on my way from the airport to my hostile my first day here and we toured the city in 2 days. Then after he left, I saw some more of the city.....Recoleta cemetary where Evita´s tomb is. It´s kind of a creepy place, but interesting at the same time. I went to Puerto Maderno and saw el puente de las mujeres....pictures are uploading as I´m writing this. I went to a Dave Matthews concert the other night. I´ve been to Palermo, La Boca to see some Tango dancing, etc. I also went to a show and really didn´t understand much of what was going on.....but it was still fun. Buenos Aires has the Obelisco on the main street which is a huge street I may add. It´s almost like being in D.C......but not. My hostile is really great and I´ve met some really great people from all over the world. That´s one of my favorite parts of traveling. I went to El tigre yesterday with my peruvian, mexican, colombian, and american friend. It was nice to get out of the city and see some other sites......and the spanish is also a plus! I´ll post pictures as soon as they are uploaded to the computer.......

Home....sort of!

I arrived back in the U.S. late Saturday night. It feels good to be "home". I put that in quotations because the U.S.A. is home, however I do not have a (home, home)....hahaha, by choice that is. I've been getting caught up on doctors appointments, and car appointments........I will head to NY this weekend for my youngest brother's wedding. He is getting married on Saturday at Chautauqua Institution....it should be beautiful. I think it's supposed to rain, but hopefully it won't rain all day long.

I'm not getting antsy yet, but I think I would if I had to stay for a long period of time without a place of my own.
My plans are still all up in the air..I've been going back and forth with where I want to go first. I think I will still be heading to Argentina first. My sister talked about going to Thailand at the end of October, which would be fun, but I really don't want to be in Virginia until that time. Not that anything is wrong with VA, it just gets old staying in other people's homes (as much as I appreciate their hospitality).

Soooooo.........I will keep you posted on my next plans.

Another Day in Nicaragua!

I can hardly believe that I only have a few days left....it´s crazy how fast time passes by. I´ve been thinking about going to the market a town over, but I´ve been so lazy. I haven´t bought any souvenirs at all. I bought a few postcards, but I really don´t need more ¨things¨. I suppose I should buy something small as a momento, but I seriously have so much stuff already. I also don´t have a whole lot of room in my backpack and don´t want to to be any heavier.....so I hope it´s ok that I´m not bringing presents back ;).

For some reasons I´ve befriended a couple of the old men in the area, weird, a little, but they are so cute. There is one man who sells souvenirs in parque central. He was burned on his torso, front and back and on his head and he also is missing an arm. He told me how it happened, but I really only got parts of what he said. I showed him my burns, ahhhhh....the worst pain a person could ever feel. At least in my experience. It´s a pain that doesn´t go away with pain medicine. The pain medicine dulls the pain a little bit, but while the burns are fresh, you can feel everything....maybe not as intensly as it would be without the pain medicine, but still. When I was in the burn intensive care unit in Buffalo, the nurses told me that if I could handle the burns that giving birth wouldn´t be difficult....Anyways...I got off on a tangent. So that´s my one older male friend. There´s another elderly gentleman who lives on the same street that I live on and I see him every morning. I say ¨buenos dias¨every morning, but this morning he started following me and touching me. I just walked fast because I was on my way to class. He´s harmless, and I don´t know what he was saying but he´s a cute little old man.

Anyways......tonight I will attending a salsa class to brush up on my salsa skills. It should be fun and interesting, as it seems that each country has their own spin on each dancing style. Tomorrow I´m planning on doing a little tour of the island off the coast here. I´ll let you know how it all goes. I hope everyone is having a good week.

Orphanage

Today I visited one of the local orphanages here in Granada. There are about 18 girls and I´m not sure how many little boys live there. They attend school at the orphanage and are learning English as well. They allowed me to come in and the nun went and got the children. All of the children came up to me and were hugging me. One girl asked me to speak English and she spoke a little bit of English to me. Ahhhh.....my heart strings were definitely pulled. I had to bite my lip to not cry. I took a couple of pictures and will post them soon. The girls were so sweet and seemed to be well taken care of, but don´t have families to give them love. As I walked out of the orphanage I was left speechless and tears flowing down my cheeks. It breaks my heart and I wish I could take every single one of them home with me. I wish I had brought some of my spanish children´s books with me to give to them. I hadn´t planned on coming to Nicaragua or to the orphange or I would have brought some......Next time. I just thought I´d share a little bit about my day with you.