Okay so I´ve been dealing with a lot since I last posted. I had 24 hours notice to change families and I did my best with packing up and saying goodbye to the family, then a rotary member came to piack me up and bring me to my new family. When I hopped in the car I immediately started asking basic questions like What´s the family name? How many children? What ages? Where do they live? What is their parents occupation? This was not a shocker coming from my club to be honest, organization is not the strongsuit of argentina, and even less so in Catamarca so I was nervous and trying to deal with it. I was told that I would be staying at an aunt´s house while my new host mom was traveling for her job, so I met the family and they seemed really nice. So I stayed with my cousins for a week which was nice I went to the pool a lot with my little sister, hung out with my older sister. We also went to the mountain town called el rodeo and stayed there for the weekend. We spent time with extended family, had a great asado (barbeque).
I also went with my host sister, her boyfriend, and my host brother
to eat at the american restaurant in town, so I had a good meal of an
argentine style hamburger and fries. Later we went driving around and
went to Bas and Miles´house (Miles´ uncles´family, the cousins of the
kid who is in Ohio right now because Bas´s family is in Buenos Aires)
Their house is so nice, its in the center with a pool and a great
areas for asado, and the family is really nice. We just sat with our
feet in the pool and talked. Bas spoke the most Spanish I ever heard
him speak, he´s finally learning. Then the next day I went to go with
Tessa, Nis, Guille, Carolina, Fernanda, my host sister and her
boyfriend for a late dinner. It was fun because I hadnt really seen
tessa in a while and we decided we needed to do things with our summer
because everyone is on vacation and we´re here in catamarca dying of
the heat. So we made a list of fun and cheap things we can do to make
the summer more interesting. The next day we achieved one of those
goals being go to the pool. That morning I also went shopping with my
host sister and that was fun. Then that night we just went to the
center and walked around and had an ice cream and went home. On
Wednesday was the proclaimed "lazy day" at Bas and Miles´house. they
stayed up until 5 am the previous night playing pokemon and making a
trail of froot loops around the house, which they showed me their
videos. I came over because I didnt have anything to do and Miles
always has something fun in store. So we decided to look at the list
Tessa and I made and we were going to do a midwestern style get
together= do crazy kiddy things and eat junk food. So I made brownies,
Miles got some ice cream from his family shop and we made brownies
with ice cream, coke floats, had hamburgers, fries, and we wrote and
drew all over eachother with sharpies. We were going to have
a hilarious fashion show but we were a little short on supplies, so
thats for next time. Miles is fun like that, he understands the
midwest way of fun, and that day reminded me of the things Kendra,
Casey, and I do when we want to have fun. Then the next day I met one
of my host sisters neighbor friends and we had a nice chat, she´s
really friendly. Then I went to have ice cream with a friend of mine
who was always hanging out with my first host brother. So that week I
told him we have to do something because I changed families and
EVERYONE is on vacation cuz its so hot, so we need an ice cream. Then
we just kind of drove around, talked, and listened to music (he´s a
DJ) and we ran into my first host brother and his girlfriend. We
talked to them for a while and It was nice to see them, even if they
were being all lovey dubby haha. Then my friend dropped me off at
Lou´s Birthday party. Lou just got back from her vacation that night
and we decided to celebrate. It was a lot of fun with lou, tessa, bas,
miles, miles´ classmate, and the classmates´brother. We had a
wonderful time just talking and hanging out. Then on Friday I woke up
and had Lunch, then got ready to greet the day with a nap after lunch,
then actually got ready to greet the day when my host sisters neighbor
came over and we decided to make pancakes with maple syrup. They
turned out pretty good but still not the same as yours! Then we packed
to come to El Rodeo for the weekend. I met up with Bas, Tessa, Miles,
and two more classmates of miles´ to go out dancing. We had a lot of
fun. And today we had an asado (bbq) and empanadas ( this combo is
sacred sunday food). I´m going back to the city tomorrow, think I´m
changing, then going to do something good this week because tessa is
leaving for cordoba so hopefully I can try to set up something like
that. I reallly really really want to go to cordoba or Rosario or
Buenos Aires or Mar del Plata because the North Trip doesnt go to any
of those places and everyone says they are really great cities.
Then I was a little sick again from food or water or something so I was bed stricken and eating rice and bottled water yet again, but very happy with my directtv and my generous host family since my host mom is a doctor she´s very busy but she checked up on me and took great care of me. When I was finally well enough to go out of the house I was told that We were going to Cordoba airport to pick up Lucy, my host sister from NEW ZEALAND! So We went to go pick her up on Sunday and it was nice because I got to catch up with another exchange student living in Cordoba that I Hadn´t seen since November. Lucy is learning Spanish rather quickly and we´ve really bonded in the past week. We´ve shown her around the city and she´s met some of the exchange students (still alot on vacation) and some friends. We´ve shown her around and done a few social outings but a January weekday in Catmarca there´s nothing really to do, since almost everyone is on vacation. Which was definately a point of frustration for this month since I wanted to see friends and everyone was gone. But now I have a partner in crime and it looks like I´m going to Cordoba Province for a week with rotary! One of the District Comittee people from the south trip who´s really cool organized this great group of events for us at a low price. I´m pretty excited now. It looks like things´ll pick up with that and then our host sister leaves soon after I get back and then I´ll have to start University soon!
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