The first day of our last weekend in Argentina was very fun for me (and hopefully everyone else). Even though we were up until 4:30 last night because of the party, I woke up at 11 A.M. to watch the Manchester City vs. Manchester United game and then I went right back to bed (very happily because the team I support won). At 2:30 or 3:00 when I woke up for real, we had a nice breakfast/lunch. Tomi and Pepo’s parents made us burgers and fried eggs, and I never expected this combo to work out, but it was delicious. Everything was on the grill, so we ate outside where there were a lot of mosquitoes, but the food was too good for the mosquitoes to bother me. After we finished eating and got ready for the day, we went to a big mall called Unicenter. This mall had almost everything you could imagine, including big stores from every big sports brand (like Nike, Adidas, Puma, Under Armor, etc.). I was very pleasantly surprised when I saw Chikezie and his buddy Alexis at the mall because they were on a different trip than us, and we caught each other up on everything that was happening in both exchange groups. We ended up having a lot of fun even though I didn’t buy that much, and I met Spider-man and Batman as well as a few kids who admired us Americans before getting pushed around in a shopping cart by Ben and Martín. We took a cramped 4-seat taxi home (there were 6 of us + a driver). After a few of our friends from the neighborhood came over for a bit, we went to bed because it was almost 2:30 A.M. and we had to wake up early the next day. I am already getting sad imagining having to say goodbye to these people that I probably won’t ever see again (but hopefully I will). -Alex
Today was Saturday, so my entire family slept in late and we started the day around lunch time. My host mom made homemade cheeseburgers, which I learned are a common food here and not only in the US. After lunch, we hopped in the car and headed to Buenos Aires to walk around the city, visit some museums, and have a merienda. The drive to the city was about half an hour, but the drive back was double that or more. The problem was the traffic from the soccer game at the stadium where Taylor Swift is going to play when she comes on tour here, but I don’t really know anything about the soccer. From the city, my host and I went straight to an outdoor mall to shop and have dinner with some other girls and their host students. I bought a ton of dulce de leche and alfajores to bring back for my family! –Mirella
