I Love Argentina

So much has been happening that everything just seems like a blur!

I went to the National Festival Of Fine Fruits in El Hoyo with my family, it went for three days over the long weekend. Each night there was a big concert with dancers and bands and that kind of thing, it was meant to finish at about 1.30am each night but when 1.30 came around they weren’t even half way through. I’m pretty sure everyone here just expects that things will run late so they don’t go until late and so things happen about 5 hours after they are meant to, and that applies to everything. Nacho Silva was there, she is a singer of some reality TV show and everyone went bonkers when she performed, it was crazy

Isabella from Wellington has changed families and now is living in El Bolson which is great because I can have a proper conversation with someone for once! When we first talked we couldn’t stop laughing because just the thought of speaking English was so foreign and felt so weird. It also cool cos we can be tourists together taking pictures of things that are just normal to my host sisters and looking at the shops that are reserved for people not from the area.

I had my first panic situation on Saturday night; I went to the club with my sister and my friends. We were dancing as you and all of a sudden Isabella was just gone. It was 5 o’clock in the morning. We searched everywhere for her, the club next door, the streets, the close by parks, but she was just gone. My friends freaked out and went to the police asking if they had seen her and it was all rather scary, we all thought that she had been abducted. I remembered I had left my jacket in the club (me and Isabella had shoved our jackets down the back of a couch and just prayed they wouldn’t get stolen) so I went back in to get it and there was Isabella all alone she had been there all along. THE RELIEF!

School hasn’t started yet, now they have told us it starts on the 16^th of this month but I’ve learnt not to trust anything. So I don’t know. Truth is I am quite happy just cruising without school, it doesn’t make a difference for anything when I get back so it’s not really important. I am going to go to afternoon school which is 1.30pm – 6.30pm. I have a couple of good friends that keep me un-bored. We drink mate and eat facturas (pastries filled with caramel or glazed with icing). They are so rica, someone told me when I was eating them “watch out exchange students have a lot of problems with those”. Eg they are so delicious that you are going to eat too much and get fat. The weather has changed all of a sudden, the whole time I have been here it has been beautiful every single day and then yesterday I wake up to snow on the mountains and rain and wind and freezingness, wah! ):

I was going to go to Bariloche this weekend with Isabella and stay in a hostel with her but I don’t think that is going to happen now because she will be with her new family. I really wanted to go because they have the worlds biggest chocolate there this year for Easter... it is 100m long, and if you know me then you will know that that is something out of my wildest dreams. Hahahaha. But maybe another weekend.