So I have only a quick update today because it's almost 3 am and I have a flight that leaves in 6 hours, but this blog only has 12 days of legitimacy left, so I feel like I need to take advantage of that.
Last week, our program took us to Colonia, Uruguay to celebrate Thanksgiving. There seems to be a general awareness that this holiday exists (probably because most of the TV programs in this country are from the US with Spanish subtitles), but the arrival of the Mayflower to Plymouth Rock is not quite viewed with the same significance down here. Colonia is a beautiful colonial town (as the name might suggest) located directly across the Rio de La Plata from Buenos Aires. It is between 1 and 3 hours away depending on how much you pay for your ferry ticket, and you can see the BA skyline off in the distance from the Colonia waterfront. It also happens that the director of our program runs a bed and breakfast there (as well as a lemon exporting business with the produce that this estate yields). Basically this guy is the man. All 100+ students that came on this trip ate a great Thanksgiving lunch in a tent on the grounds of this bed and breakfast (which, in Spanish, translates to "el bed and breakfast"). Hopefully I can get some pictures up soon, but be prepared for colonial architecutre, cows on a beach, and everything that might come between those two.
As I mentioned above, I will be leaving Buenos Aires in 6 hours (but not for good!). I head tomorrow to Ushuaia, Argentina, which, as you can see from this MAP, is the southernmost city in the world. It's basically the same distance south from Buenos Aires that the east coast of the US is to Colorado. On Sunday, I head to El Calafate, which is located near the PERRITO MORENO GLACIAR. I return to Buenos Aires next Friday evening and have a few more days to say goodbye to the city before heading back to the US for good the evening of Tuesday, December 14.
More updates soon!
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