On Thursday I went to el Jardín Botánico (Botanical Garden) with some friends. It was a beautiful day, and a beautiful garden. To explore it, we decided to play a game of sardines - it's like hide 'n seek, but one person hides and the rest of the group has to find that person and hide with them. To give you a sense of how big it was, it took nearly an hour to play one round. It was a lot of fun!
My friend Kevin, who also happens to be my dance partner, is studying in Montevideo, Uruguay this semester and came to Buenos Aires for the weekend! We explored Recoleta on Friday. We went to El Cementerio de la Recoleta, which was huge and very neat to see. There were so many ornate tombs, but there were also ones that were falling apart, which was sad to see. Everyone is just dying to get into this cemetery (ha!) - seriously, you know you're a big shot when you're buried there. This is where Eva Peron is buried. I didn't see her tomb, but I saw many others. I definitely want to go back and wander more there sometime.
This week and the next week, the El Festival Tango Mundial (the World Tango Festival) is in Buenos Aires. Kevin and I went to a show Friday evening, and it was awesome. There was a band playing tango music, which I loved, while a couple danced. It was so beautiful, and I'm definitely planning on checking out many of the (free!) events of this festival. It was so crazy to realize that we were actually watching a tango show in Argentina!
On Friday night, I went to a salsa dance lesson, and it made me so happy to have dance back in my life. I didn't realize how much I missed it until I started dancing again. It was a different way of learning salsa than I've ever experienced, but it was still tons of fun. I also went to a milonga to take a tango lesson on Saturday with some friends, and it was very cool. I think the best part was when I was dancing with one of the really good leads, and even though I'd barely done any tango, he told me I was doing really well and that it was obvious I am a dancer. It was so awesome to hear that! The teacher also told me I was doing really well, and asked me how old I was. She was surprised when I told her 20 - she thought I was much younger. Story of my life. I want to find a place I can consistently go to dance - I feel like it will give me a purpose here.
I also went to a monthly food festival this weekend with some friends in a park in Palermo, which was fun! There was a ton of organic food, either to buy and eat there or to take home. I of course had to try the desserts, and I had something similar to a croissant with chocolate in it, and it was delicious! The park it was in was beautiful, and I definitely can see myself spending hours there when it warms up.
It's crazy to believe that I've been here for a month. It feels like it's flown by, but also like it's gone by super slowly. I'm feeling much more comfortable here, but I'm definitely still getting fully adjusted. I'm looking forward to what the next four months have to bring!
Here are some pictures from my weekend:
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