Time is ticking...

Hello to all! Strange to think that in a few weeks I´ll be back home in the U.S. and jumping into a busy schedule again (well... not that I´m not busy here, but a different busy schedule?). I was very anti-going home before...but I´m starting to be ready. It´s going to be really hard to leave obviously, but there are things I´m just starting to miss more and things here that well... I won´t miss as much. I´m going to try to make the most of my last 3 weeks though!

"Thanksgiving" went well. We had our family dinner with my host family, Annie, and one of Joaquin´s friends. They weren´t exactly a fan of the pumpkin pie. Oh well. The boys tried a bite and were done, but Elvira said that they even did that was out of love for me.

Lets see.... what else is new.
Took my 2nd anthropology parcial and I got a 9 on that as well! I´m proud and a bit suprised to say that I have the highest grade in that class (they posted all the grades online with names. A little different than the US). I went back last week to get my grade form signed and hung out with some of the girls for a bit. That was fun. During our conversation we started talking about U.S. culture and they know/watch more U.S. tv shows than I do and know a lot about the music (or at least certain aspects?). It was interesting. They asked if any of the Argentine music or tv programs made it to the US....not so much. Hopefully I´m goign to go out with some of the girls this weekend. We´ll see if it works out.

Finished with choir and we had a choir concert at the conservatory (not the past Saturday, but the one before). It went pretty well considering it was the most disorganized choir I´ve ever been in and probably less than half of the choir came to the concert. After our last class I went out with some of the people for a bit, which was fun. I never really did make good friends with the people in that class. Aquaintances and "friends" in class, but nothing more. I´m ok with that though I guess.

Took the 2nd Cuestiones Culturales parcial. It went well, was easier than I thought it would be. I´ll find out tomorrow what I got. Last night Sarah took me out to dinner to help her study for her parcial. I can handle that --free pizza and icecream to ramble about my notes? Sure! It was good catch-up time as well after a long day.

I´m such an honors kid. The majority of my update is about classes... Sorry.

Yesterday I finished my painting. I´m really excited about it, I like it a lot. I can´t take complete credit for it, because I got a lot of help, but its still exciting to think that its "my" painting.

On Sunday I went to the Delta for the day, which was lots of fun. Close to Tigre, but not quite. I went with a group of people from the program who I´m not super close with, but I´ve become better friends with a few of them recently. More or less the people from the Argentina v. Bolivia futbol game. Sarah and Amanda came as well. We took 2 trains and then a boat ride to Juan´s (Argentine friend) house and met up with some of his friends there. We had lunch then spent the day in the water and hanging out. Very relaxing. I love boat rides as well, they make me happy. I had planned on having a dinner party at my house that night, but realized that wouldn´t exactly work once we didnt get there until 1 and needed a ride back to the train station. It was a fun, relaxing day though.

I can´t really remember what else I did last weekend. Saturday night we attempted to go to a peña (traditional music and sometimes food and dancing) but it was us and lots of grandparents, so we ended up sitting at one of the tables outside and talking instead. Friday night I went to a party for one of Michelle´s Argentine friends... except the party ended up being everyone goign to a boliche and her friend didn´t get there until 4ish. haha. There were lots of changes in plans this weekend.

Today I took my Spanish written exam. The "theme" was indecisiveness. The first reading pretty much described my life. I need to work on that....
Thursday is the oral exam and then I´m done with everything with a fixed schedule. I have to turn in my paper for literature and write and turn in my independent study paper. Both of those have flexible due dates though.... which actually makes it a little more difficult sometimes. I´m going to go to the beach for a few days as well, though I´m not sure how I´m working my schedule yet.

Anyway, off to tango and then getting some work done tonight!