Overview

I have been in Buenos Aires for over a week now so I am going to include and e-mail that I sent to the Saia's to catch this thing up.

Well I wanted to send you guys a postcard, but I haven´t
been to alot of the
places that the post cards picture.  Today marks a week here.  
I thought that my spanish was better than it actually is.  
I have moved locations already, the first place that
I stayed at was not a host family situation,
it was a woman who was renting out all of
her rooms
and sleeping in the kitchen (2 american and 1
british boys are renting from here).
Slightly not what I expected, but I asked to be
moved that night and surprisingly
for Argentines, they gave swiftly me the i
nformations of another family who
I promptly met with and it was perfect.  
So I moved on my 3rd day.   
I live in the nicest ¨neighborhood" in
buenos aires
called Recoleta.
I am right next to the cemetary where Eva Peron is 
burried and the famous 
church of Pilar.  Today or tomorrow I am going to
go take pictures of it.  

My host mom´s name is Marta and my host sister is
Amalia, she is 24 years old
and is taking classes at a different university in buenos aires.  
there are a whole lot of them.  Seriously things here are
 not even close to being
as organized as at home.  Today I met with an advisor,
 and online some
courses still don´t have their schedules up. So I asked
 her, when are the
classes especially for international students going to
start, and she said ¨
we don´t know yet, it will be online when they do".  and
 classes in other parts
of the university already started this week!  My host family
 is very nice.  
My host mom has 5 kids,
Amalia is the youngest.  Her oldest son just got engaged
 so all
her children plus their spouses and Amalia´s boyfriend
came over
for dinner last night.  I couldn´t understand almost any
thing!  
The accent is very difficult to understand
and then its almost impossible to understand when there is
a group of people
talking to eachother all at once.  My friend Diana´s sister in
 law is from
Argentina and so before I left I met with her a couple of times,
and now that
I´m here she´s given me lots of contacts.  I already met a family
that she
knows on Sunday, and they were very nice and have an 18 year old
daughter who said that she will take me around and
hang out with me.  And tonight Amalia and her boyfriend and
then another of
Virginia´s friends are going out to eat with me.  
Buenos Aires is alot like New York City.  
Amalia and I went running yesterday, and I´m glad we did because she
showed me how right near where we live there are beautiful parks.
It was nice to see grass! I will be able to send pictures and keep in touch
better when my family gets the internet.  
for now i have to find time to go to an internet cafe, but they are
getting internet
by next week!  Hope all is well, I miss you guys and everything
else in North Carolina!