Buenos Dias, Argentina!

So, I had thought about writing in a separate "travel" blog, but that's kind of stupid.  So I'm just going to write here haha.  I just arrived in Buenos Aires, Argentina yesterday morning to visit my sister for 2 weeks!  She's been living here studying abroad through her school (Pepperdine) this semester, and I'm finally getting to see her life down here!  So fun.  I slept for I think 12 hours last night (after not sleeping hardly at all on my overnight flight), but I'm still kinda wiped out.  Today we took the Subte (like a subway) to Puerto Madero - a port area by the river here, similar to the Thames in London - and had lunch at the oldest cafe in Buenos Aires, called Tontoni.  It was neat, I feel overwhelmed with all the Spanish and not feeling like I can say ANYTHING, even though I know I can if I need to.  My sister is making me anyway.  It's fun, it makes me wish I had studied Spanish.  Actually, it makes me REALLY wish I had studied abroad.  I feel like I wasted my college years haha.  Anyway, we spent the afternoon walking around and enjoying the city (in spite of the crazy riots and fireworks going off, etc. in the center of the city).  Now we're at "The Casa" - Pepperdine's home base for the students here; it's a big beautiful house that they turned into their school and hang-out area for the students - with the rest of her friends who are still here and haven't gone home yet.  Most of them went home last night, but there's a fun handfull of them left.  They leave in a few hours.  I think tonight we're going to Brittany's favorite place, Ateneo, a big beautiful bookstore somewhere in teh city.  I think her friend Peter is coming with us, which is fun!  We don't have much planned out for this week haha, but lots of fun ideas!  I guess we'll have to see how it goes :)

Much love!,
Erica