It's been a busy couple of days. Thursday before my classes my friend Miles and I went La Rural, which is a huge annual agriculture expo. There were horse and cow shows, sheep judging, hundreds of different food and drink products to sample (including delicious Dulce De Leche), and any other things you can associate with agriculture and farming. It was almost like a county fair, but 10 times bigger! I was amazing and there were people everywhere. We had Chorizo sandwiches for lunch, called Choripan, and it was by far my favorite thing I've eaten here so far. Tomorrow is the last day, and I'm planning on going back with Amy for one last go around!

Friday it was terribly cold and rainy, so I visited the Museo de Bellas Artes with Amy, her roommate Brittany, and a couple other girls from their program. It was a amazing! There was a room that had colonial tablets, which were about 10 pieces of art that told the story of the Mexican conquest. There was also an entire room with a Berni exhibit. I don't know if any of you have heard of him, but these were some of the most amazing pieces of art I've ever seen. They're huge, first of all, and they are also made of all kinds of recycled materials, which adds amazing texture to them. A lot of the pieces paint pictures of injustice, one specifically about the injustice between the government and the masses. The government is portrayed as all different monsters on the bottom half of the painting, and the top half is a chaotic mess of people, which I assumed was "the people". I can't even describe how amazing this room was! Unfortunately I was not allowed to take pictures there. That night I was going to go out, but instead stayed in and watched a movie with friends.

Saturday I finally made it to the Recoleta Cemetery (where Evita is buried) and to the huge open craft market outside. Recoleta is a bit of a ritzy neighborhood with a lot of French and Italian influence what with all of the outdoor coffee shops, ice cream places and restaurants. I think this is so far my favorite part of the city. There are usually tango dancers on the street displaying their talent, and this is also where the church is in the pictures at the bottom of the page. The cemetery, which is behind the church is massive and elegant. It looks almost like a small town, only instead of houses there are tombs! The ground is all concrete, the mausoleums are enormous, and I could see into most of them where there are coffins, and various adornments. This is definitely the kind of place that you could spend all day in and still not see everything, and also get lost because it's such a labyrinth. Outside the church and cemetery there is a huge open air craft market every weekend. You can find all sorts of painting, photography, mate gourds, jewelry, leather products, food, anything you could ever think of! I had lunch with a friend in one of the many restaurants near the church. However we didn't realize when we sat down that it was an all you can eat place, so we both ended up eating a small pizza and then leaving. Although it was some of the best pizza I've ever had! I know that beef is supposed to be the big thing here, but as one of my professors put it in class today, Pizza is another of Argentina's national foods.

Today marked the beginning of my second week of classes. I'm liking them pretty well, but I can't seem to quite figure out what all are the important parts of the class. Most of my professors tend to ramble on about admittedly interesting subjects, but then at the end I'm not sure what the main was supposed to be. I'm hoping that will come with time. Today I had a substitute in one of my classes, and he was so much more interesting than my usual professor. As I was saying earlier, he talked about pizza for a good 15 or 20 minutes, and told us our homework was to go to his favorite pizza place! I can see that this semester is going to be pretty exciting! Anyway, I'm having a pretty great, even if there are still some lonely days. I guess there are bound to be those when you're in a new place. I'm trying to fill all of my time with activities so I don't think about being homesick, which has seemed to work so far. My sleeping, eating, and just general schedule is completely opposite than it was at home because everything here happens at night, and most people sleep until late morning, and take a ciesta in the late afternoon. With my love of naps I've become accustomed to this lifestyle quite easily! I hope everyone is well! Pictures coming soon!!

Ciao