Weekdays

It's getting harder and harder to keep up with this blog, as I'm now just about as busy from day to day as I would be back home.

This week was typical, Monday night was low key, with a bit only a bit of studying after my classes in the morning and some reading later that night. Tuesday, I went to the gym in the afternoon, where Victoria, a member of the staff, greeted me with the usual Argentinean kiss and proceeded to help me with my workout. That night, I joined Megan to place called Notorius, a hip and ingenious cafe/bar where you could order a cappuchino, browse their digital music collection and choose to purchase CDs, if you like. That night, Notorius hosted a live music show as well, a young jazz pianist who played tranquil, but complicated, songs that fit the mood of the evening perfectly.

Wednesday, I watched Alexandro Magno (Alexander the Great, which I didn't think was that bad) at the movies by myself in English with Spanish subtitles. Thursday, I finally played my first game of tennis on a red, clay court, and I have the pink shoes to prove it! It was a lot of fun, even though I can't quite hit and slide like the pros do yet.

I also had a pretty strange dream after eating a rich and heavy appetizer at 12:30am one night. I dreamt that one night, here in Buenos Aires, I was staying in an extra bedroom of some other American ex-pats for the night when I was woken up at 1am. Apparently, the "Bank of Argentina" had "failed," or "crashed," or something, and the city was dissolving into chaos. Not believing it at first, I looked out of the window to see shops closing, stores being looted, and roving mobs of people in the streets. The American who woke me told me that all of us needed to get out of there fast, so I tried to call a real-life American friend of mine here in BA to warn him. However, I couldn't get through, and eventually I just had to take of with the people I was with, speeding away for Chile.

I guess I had a dream like that coming after discussing Argentinean politics with my teachers in class all week.