It's been a crazy week of traveling and orientation, but finally I am settling in to my new home in Mendoza, Argentina where I will be until December. After an overnight flight, I arrived early Thursday morning in Buenos Aires where I met my fellow program members. We spent the following three days touring the city in the morning and going to orientation in the afternoon, exploring such sites as the capitol building, various markets, a graveyard, and much more. On Friday we had the night free, and I ended up going to dinner with my brother's friend's family who live in Buenos Aires. I'd only met them once before but they were so kind and we had a great time. I'm now in Mendoza where so far I have explored a little, sat through a whole lot more orientation, gone on some runs in the (beautiful!) park, and of course spent time with my amazing host mother (ironically named) Carmen. I'm nervous and excited for classes to start on Monday, and am hoping to make some Argentinian friends! Here are some (very touristy) photos:
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| A super cool opera house-turned bookstore that we explored shortly after arriving. |
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| La Casa Rosada, or the pink house, is where the President works. |
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| A really cool market went to that had some delicious empanadas. |
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| The family tomb where Eva Peron's body once was. We learned a lot about Argentinian history of which she is a key part, and her death story is almost as interesting as that of her life. I'm still not really sure if our tour guide told us where her body finally ended up. |
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| The wall of "los desaparecidos," or the disappeared. Between 1974 and 1983 Argentina's civic-military dictatorship hunted down anyone that could be slightly socialist, resulting in thousands of secret deaths, missing people, and adults who are just now finding out the true nature of their adoption. |
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| My brother's friend's sister, Isabella, and me after enjoying a lovely dinner that definitely included some dulce de leche. She talks very fast! |
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| The view of the Andes foothills from outside the office window of the program in Mendoza. Not a bad view! |
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| The park where I've run the past couple days. It's quite pleasant and I'm learning that Mendoza is quite an active city! |
I'm definitely missing my fellow ephs, but am looking forward to a semester full of Spanish, mountains, and personal growth.
Keep rocking that cow!
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