Tango

The past few days have been a whirl wind. I have made friends with a few people in my classes and had a great time in the many public parks here. Every single person in Argentina I have talked to is extremely nice, giving and genuinely cares about me. I have done sooo much it has been 'muy fantastico'!

But yesterday, I got lost.

I did not have a map on me, and I walked in the wrong direction for two hours.

After I took a taxi to an intersection near my house I got some flowers for my host mom to thank her for lending her phone to me for free. when I got home I took a fantastic nap and had dinner at 9:30, but because 9:30 is very early for most people in Argentina I ate alone and my host ate at 11:30. In the U.S. on a week day I would already be asleep... somehow people here never look tired... How do they do it?

Back to what this post is about....

We went to Tango lessons on thursday with a group of exchange students and I loved it. At UNT they have a club for tango that is very fun, but its kind of like taking spanish classes from non native speakers, you get the basics, but in a matter of minutes attending this class taught by people that have been dancing tango their whole life, I felt like I was better at dancing than I had been in the few months I had taken tango at school.

I loved the class! I also took a Salsa class after the tango class and learned a lot from one of the women that works at API Gabby, she is fun and so friendly.

After that i went out for dinner with a few friends at a Mexican themed restaurant in Palermo SoHo. It was so cute (the water was served in a pitcher that was shaped like a chicken) and the waitress we had was ultra friendly, as are most here.  After eating a few delicious tacos, we went out in search of a television to watch the Spurs game since Ginoblee is from Argentina, i wanted to see if people would get in to it, but the culture doesn't really glorify any sport except futbol, so we were the only people watching the game.

Overall Thursday night was a blast.