Just to make sure you all understand that traveling is actually not just easy holidays! ;-) The language course is actually quite exhausting and besides the homework there is not so much time left - and please keep in mind that the nightlife in Buenos Aires is very strenuous, too! The biggest trouble is to find a restaurant that will serve you any food before 9.30 pm. Seriously! You might be able to get a toast or maybe a pizza, but any decent food - no way. So I still work on adjusting my daily schedule and I am trying to adopt to the local habits. Then, if you go to a Milonga (a Tango place), the dancing is not bound to start any time before midnight, really. Not that I would be really up to dancing Tango, but some of the folks I go out with occasionally are. But it is good fun to watch, too. At least I tried a few steps during the introductory lessen before the actual milonga - poor chica who had to dance with me.
Quick update on the last weekend. We went in a group of five for a weekend to Uruguay, to Montevideo and Colonia. Luckily Steffi struck up a conversation with a lovely 'local' girl, Laura, who took us for a tour on Saturday and showed us much of Montevideo. This way we really got to see a lot. At night we went out and stayed up until about 5.30 am dancing, at least some of us including me. (You see, life as a traveler is hard!) The next day we went by bus to Colonia and later on the express ferry back 'home' to Buenos Aires. I really enjoyed that weekend, although it was rather exhausting too.
This weekend will be more geared towards practicalities. I have to get my (brand-new!) backpack repaired, one of the zippers broke when checking in at the airport in Berlin and I have to get it replaced. Then I will have to buy two tickets for Volker and me for the bus ride to Puerto Madryn near the Peninsula Valdes for the next weekend. Volker is coming over and we will go traveling together for some weeks.
So far, I do not really feel like I am traveling. Well, in fact I am not traveling. I am staying with my lovely host family, going to school every day and spend my spare time repeating Spanish lessons or exploring Buenos Aires. But I am quite pleased that my Spanish is improving rapidly. And spending time in this truly great city is a pleasure. I am impressed with how friendly and relaxed the people hereabouts are - this is quite a difference to all the other really big cities I have been to before. And Buenos Aires is a crazy city, literally. They say, that this city ranks first regarding the number of psycho-analysts per inhabitants... I am not surprised.
