WWWWWHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT’SSS UUUPPPPP everybody! I am back today with another awesome blog post, but this time instead of an Asia blog post we are finally in South America! Yes, we have officially started the second half of our trip by beginning our South America conquest! First, we will go to Buenos Aires, Argentina, then Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and lastly Baraqila, Columbia! I feel like this is going to be a super fun trip since I have been waiting so long to go to South America for a very long time and today I will report my first fun week here in Argentina. So after a very, very long 13-hour flight to London, 6-hour layover, and then another 14 hours to Buenos Aires, we finally got to our first stop on our South America trip and we were all very tired from flying around everywhere and the jetlag. We eventually got out of the house and went to see a small market next to us. We saw lots of cool and antique objects everywhere and there was even a stand to do a traditional tango in the streets! It was very cool to see because the tango itself was very complicated and the background music was very nice.
After that, we went inside the indoor part of the market and we saw lots of antique stores that had many different things in them. We saw old toys, old equipment, and we even saw old song albums. It was a very fun day and two days later we started going to a Spanish School! At this school, we learned how to speak Spanish(Well, for me it was more to learn) and my family tried it out for the first time! The school itself wasn’t very good looking, but the classes themselves were interesting. Since I was already learning Spanish, I was placed in a much higher class than the rest of my family and we talked only in Spanish. We also did lots of fun activities together and it was fun because I felt like I understood a lot more Spanish than I had previously known and that was basically the gist of the whole school. It got boring at times, but I feel like I could concentrate most times. Anyways, we also did a bunch of other fun activities throughout the week including eating at a delicious Israeli restaurant where the waitress accidentally dropped the plate and everything broke! We all felt really bad for her and a few days later we went to a very cool art mall where we saw lots of cool artwork and we had our first Argentinian rib-eye steak!
It tasted delicious and gave me hope for what kind of meat I was expected to eat here in Argentina. On a finishing note, we celebrated Troy’s 53rd birthday!!!
We had a giant celebration and an astounding chocolate cake that was very good! Our first week here in Buenos Aires, Argentina has been great so far and I hope that it continues to be good!
