¡Qué Tal!
Having wrapped up my first week abroad here in Buenos Aires (BsAs), I am first grateful to God for this opportunity and for all of the special people that He has placed in my life to be a blessing to me. This entire experience has been one of the most humbling I have ever experienced.
This week has been absolutely CRAZY! My traveling begin with visa issues, broken down planes, thankfully on the ground, unplanned long layovers, stomach viruses, and finally lost luggage, which was recovered. However, once I finally arrived all was well. I began to feel much better and my luggage was fully recovered only to unleash a swarm of crazy flying bugs that took over my room for a night, but its all good ;)
This week has been intense. It finally set in that I am actually a foreigner here and this is REALLY South America. I've had my share of market experiences, with shopping for food, a local mobile phone, recovering my luggage, and many other times I've been forced to use the Spanish that I know or resolve to my skills in charades.
My host family is THE BEST!! An older couple with 7 children that live here all from ages 14 to 26, so generally all are in my age group. We have a lot of fun making jokes, usually about my Spanish, and chillaxin. One of my host brothers, Ignacio aka Nacho, invited me for a weekend to "el campo" (the country) on the outskirts of BsAs. We had a fun authentic BBQ with the works...WOW! Food there was great. As it also was when we visited "la estáncia" (the ranch) where we tried a whole slew of meats, maté (an Argentine drink), swam, saw a lot of animals and rode horses. We seriously rode horses though! It wasn't the average walk a trail with the horse. They ranchers let us go for it if we wanted, naturally of course I did. I almost fell off a few times, but it was well worth it!
It is still orientation until March 15, so we haven't yet started classes. However, I have already started searching for a human rights internship here, which I will be sure to keep everyone abreast to. But so far so good!
I will be keeping this blog pretty regularly updated so please keep checking me out. Hopefully I won't disappoint ;)
¡Nos Vemos!
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This was funny, Kev. Sorry to hear that you got sick, but really who doesn't get some sort of stomach virus/ailment when traveling South of the Border..? Anyway, looking forward to more updates. Can't wait. Miss you bud! Paix.
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Dang, man, your blog is way coooler than mine lol. Really fun to read! Have a blast ;)
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ReplyDeleteI'm glad to see you made it safely to Buenos Aires! This is a great opportunity to so take full advantage of it. Have fun but make an impact. I enjoyed reading your blog. You are hilarious, as usual.
Looking forward to the next post,
DAnimashaun :-)
Hey son, thanks for pulling this Neanderthal out of the Stone Age. This is the first time I've ever "blogged" smile....I enjoyed the update and the pics. As always the Lord is there with you and will help you as you go about your daily tasks. You are intelligent, athletic, good at public relations, tough as nails, and covered by God! That's the perfect recipe for a great experience abroad! Ofcourse I'm glad to hear that the host family is great too.
ReplyDeleteBtw, have you met any of the other PSU students there yet?
To wrap it up, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might......and remember Psalms 23.
Stay up Son!
Peace
Kevin Jr., Now I'm determined to get on this blog just to make sure you don't think you are a FAVORITE or something because Nana is blogging you ;-)! Just want you to know when she talked to me she said she loves, loves, loves, loves me!!!! Well thats all for now until the next time nana blogs.
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