Lessons, Updates, and Facts

    Petrol costs $16USD/gallon

·         For 28 cents I can travel 32.5 miles in the Subte (Metro)

·         The University of Buenos Aires is free to Argentines and has the most Nobel laureates of all Spanish speaking universities

·         Everyone throws their trash on the curb between 8-9pm and then young boys or families go through everything before the dump trucks arrive around midnight

·         Walking two dogs makes people think I’m a local and thus ask for directions

·         Ketchup, Mustard, Milk, Yogurt, etc. all come in plastic bags.

·         I actually blend in because of the heavy European influences

·         I have to wash my own dishes

·         Nobody has Vibrams but everyone wants to touch them

·         The yellow light flashes after the red to indicate the light will soon change to green

·         Cats protect the dead in the cemetery in Recoleta

·         People don’t often graffiti expletives but instead messages of love or politics

·         I prefer the energy here but the beauty in Boulder

·         I don’t have as many clothes

·         I struggle to remember words in English

·         I want to go to Patagonia

·         Some classes start tomorrow and the rest on Monday

·         I will be taking three direct enrollment courses, one grammar course through the study abroad intuition, and service learning I would like to do with the Madres de Plaza de Mayo (las madres de los desaparecidos)

·         They don’t have peanut butter but instead dulce de leche…it’s a bit sweet for a substitute but it works

·         Dogs poop and pee on the sidewalks regularly