International Taxi Day

This past Friday I went to the International Book Fair. It was definitely impressive, and DEFINITELY packed. I think I would have liked it better if the books had been organized more by genre, instead of stands of different bookstore companies, but who knows how that would work, I'm just referring back to the old days at St. Pius' bookfairs in the library. I absolutely LOVED the children's books though, the illustrations are so cute and beautiful. There was a stand by the United States along with other countries. The one for the United States had a few books, but the whole theme was space travel. It had a big model space ship, and a cardboard spacesuit with room to put your head in for pictures. And it had a huge timeline about our past and next space travel plans. I bought a book of Maitena comics, she writes comics that are geared toward women and their "problems" it's funny, when I know what all the words mean! Haha, Vicky and I took a quiz on the back that was really funny. We both got the results of muy alterada, or very mad/crazy, the 4th out of 5 options. One of the questions goes, You find out that your boyfriend has been lying to you about everything, A. you don't believe it at all, he always tells you everything, B. you ask him about it, C. you burn all of his shirts and break a chair with his head. They had alot of events going on, like book signings, during the week too there. It was definitely huge.






Saturday night Vicky, Amalia, and I went to San Telmo, one of the oldest neighborhoods of Buenos Aires, for dinner. It seems really pretty, they have alot of roads that are cobblestone. I need to go sometime during the day. There are alot of streets named after different countries, and the restaurant we ate at was on the street Estados Unidos (United States). haha.










Sunday I went with Vicky to La Plata. We ate at McDonald's before we left and the McDonalds' here are realllly nice, I mean compared to ours. It's 2 levels, at the bottom the have a cafe along with McDonald's stuff, and at the top they have a computer zone! with really nice computers! haha and i think there was a playplace up there too. When we were leaving her apartment to go, we noticed alot of commotion, and like these cars coming by slowly like a parade, and music and honking and like, spongebob and barney and I don't remember what else. But anyways apparently it was International Taxi Day. Haha! I got to meet two of her friends in La Plata. We went to a cafe for awhile. The word for tea is te, and te is also the pronoun? I can't remember the grammatical term, for you. so the teas had names like te amo (I love you) or te espero (i wait for you). I thought it was cute.

On my way home, when I was on the bus on Callao, as we approached Santa Fe, the traffic was really bad, because there was another manifestacion. The government and the campo are still not finding a resolution. I mean it's just a huge mass of people blocking most of the street and hitting pots and pans or clapping, or honking their horns. I couldn't get a good picture though because the bus I was in was moving.

I joined a gym here and I really like it. I missed be able to work out, and my body def did too. okay, chao chao!