Uruguay

February 10- 1842 Quesada

Its been a little while since my last post. Sorry about that. Let's see here. Thursday was a boringish day. I spent a lot of the day doing little things and making sure that I had everything done for the weekend. however i did go to this place called Florida street where there are a lot of little shops and vendors. its a lot like an outdoor downtown type mall things but mexican style with the types of shops and the street enteritainment and everything. i bought my first soccer jersey :) and decided that i am going to buy one in every country that i travel to. you can never have enough soccer jerserys hahaha. Then Friday (the 8th) we began our first day of classes. I only had 2- Spanish and History and spanish was a lot like the Boot Camp classes that we had been doing earlier so that wasn't hard at all and it seems like it is going to be a good class. But history... the class doesnt seem like it is going to be hard but the teacher is SO boring. I actually tried to pay attention in class and take notes but he is so boring and jumps around so much that I couldn't follow any of the class. It is going to be a very long semester with that class. However, I decided to add two classes. One a tango class... that should be interesting sence I hate dancing but I figured I cant come to Argentina and not learn how to tango. I also decided to take this humanities class where every Thursday morning we go and tour the city basically I guess. I dont really know what all we do but that is what i have heard so that should be amazing amounts of fun. and i am defintely stoked to get to know the city even more. anyways, right after history we left the Casa and took the Subte (subway) down to the ports to jump on a ferry to go to Uruguay. because we signed up for the trip late, they only had 1st class and so we got to relax in big chairs around circles tables were we played cards and drank complementary champenge. anyways there was 20 of us that decided to go this weekend so one we got there it was kind of a nightmare to figure out what everyone wanted to do. we broke into 3 groups... one stayed in colonia where we landed, one stayed in colonia for night and then took a early 3 hour bus ride to montevideo (the capital) and the other took an even earlier 6 hour bus ride to Punto del Esto. i was with the group that went to the captial and we had a lot of fun. we got to go to the beach (it was kindof dirty and the water was brown but oh well... laying out is laying no matter where you are haha) and then me and 2 others walked around the city for a little while and went to mall and ate a Uruguayn version of Panda express. haha we also caught up on some much needed sleep. but anyways we left there early in the morning also to make it back to colonia by 12 so that we could get on our ferry and get back home. all in all it was a great weekend! it was a good first travelling trip. next time however i want to travel with less people so that it is easier to make decisions and also because i want to be able to pracitce spanish which is hard to do in a big group. not all 20 of us can talk to one hostel clerk at the same time haha but it was great to figure out some things about how to travel and i am stoked to see what next weekend brings!! even though i have said it before... i promise ill get pictures up soon!