Friends from other countries

Our attempt to meet Mizzou students for 25 de mayo failed, so we made some Puerto Rican friends and went to Kika in Palermo! Figure we should enjoy the vacation time before next week, when the 40 hours of work begin. We made friends not only from Puerto Rico and Argentina, but also Ireland, Holland and Australia! It's interesting how much more approachable everyone in Buenos Aires is compared to the US.

Celebrating the 25 de mayo...again

Maluca Belleza- a Brazilian dance club in Buenos Aires

It looked like they were doing Zumba but 100 times crazier!

After sleeping in until noon, we took a different Subte line to class today and got home in under an hour! Class was interesting because we read our first story of Argentinean literature, and I did the preliminary research about the war between the Spaniards and the Indians when the Spaniards came to establish Buenos Aires. There was a lot of fighting, and people were so famished that they began to drink blood and eat each other's bodies. I'm glad to be comprehending everything so far and learn more about Argentina as we continue reading.

On another note, we live less than two blocks away from both a McDonalds and a Burger King. You would think we would settle and occasionally get dinner there, but it's actually more expensive than most Argentinean restaurants. A hamburger is 8 pesos at minimum ($2); so much for the dollar menu. We had to go to McDonalds today because they caught my eye with an advertisement similar to this:

How delicious does that look?! Milka is an incredibly tasty milk chocolate bar made by Kraft and not sold many places in the U.S. It's the chocolate to eat here, but rather expensive (at least $2 a bar). But this MILKA MCFLURRY has more Milka than a chocolate bar, and soft serve ice cream! It's almost as good as the ice cream from the heladerías (ice cream shops)! After an exhausting day, the four of us walked to McDonalds on a mission: to try the Milka McFlurry. So I haven't tried real fast food yet, but can attest to this tasting really good! Buenos Aires is so obsessed with the idea of delivery that even McDonalds and Burger King deliver. Can you imagine how much more obese the US would be if this were the case?

One more day of three hours of Spanish class, and then real life starts!