School is for fools :)

Today was my second day of classes. and let me tell you it felt LONG. Tuesday I had class from 11-1 HOWEVER that was the day I had to go to immigrations to get my visa. Long story short, it didnt happen. The good news is that I can write my own "F my life."

"So I waited in line for 3 hours at immigrations only to find out they had no more numbers for the day and couldnt get my visa. Little did I know that I had a group appointment and got to cut the line. If I had done that I'd have my visa right now. F MY LIFE." It sounded better when I made it up yesterday but oh well!

That basically sums up the story. I got up at 6:30 am to go to immigrations. Then waited in a line with a million people for about 3 hours. Apparently there was a miscommunication about where to meet. There are ALOT of those with this program that I am with. Now my weekend plans to leave the country are ruined b/c I am in the process of getting my student visa. And now I have to go back to immigrations and who knows how long that will take.

Anyway, back to classes. Tuesday I went to my general spanish and it was alright. Mostly review right now. I also had my sculpture class. I think that I will be dropping that. It was 4 hours. We talked in spanish for about 2 about boring thigns. Then we had about an hour to design and I quickly learned that I do not like to design thigns creatively and sculpture is not my thing. haha. Then today I had a spansih writing workshop which is ok too and my spanish class again. Plus a poetry class. ew i hate poetry in english let alone spanish but i need an english class for my cultural heritage credit. Tomorrow will be poetry again. and my theater class. I'll keep you posted.

On a lighter note, the other day on the bus some older woman sat down to me and her pants had somehow gotten unzipped. It then took her about 10 minutes to zip them back up. It was a side zip and they almost fell off. I couldnt keep from giggling so I turned away so she couldnt see.

My host mom is so great. She is just super sweet. Last week I had a few long days and when I got home from orientation activities all I wanted was a shower and a pepsi. Luckily for me there is a little store underneath our building so after I got clean I'd go get a pepsi to relax. After a few days of this Christina started buying pepsi for us to drink with dinner. I love her!

I am a bit nervous that I am going to get fat. I feel like I eat a lot here. Some kids are complaining about losing weight. I dont know how that is happening. I eat 3-4 meals a day if you add up all the snacks I eat. it is ridiculous. And my last meal is around 8-9 and I go to bed only a couple hours after that so it just sits in my tummy! ahhh.

On a positive note I met a girl today from campus crusade, alexis, who is on a stint here in Bs. As. It was great to meet another christian here in argentina b/c my program seems to have few if any, that stand out anyway. I'm hoping to get involved with what she is doing around here. They have meetings every friday night and a few other events as well! It sounds like a lot of fun. They also volunteer at an orphanage once a month and I'd love to do that. As long as I am in town this weekend I think that I'll go to their friday meeting and see where that leads. I think that this is my opportunity to meet locals and maybe get involved in the community around me. :)

Interesting fact of the day: Alexis told me that some homless people "rent" out their kids to others b/c kids can make more money begging. It is so sad. There are a lot of homeless people around and even families

~Lizzie