Hola a Buenos Aires!

Greetings and salutations from the southern hemisphere of our lovely sphere (A.K.A globe/earth) where I write in the bustling city of Buenos Aires, Argentina!  So it's been a few days since I've been down here, and the reality of the fact hasn't quite settled in yet.  In the last few days, less than a week's amount of time, I have endured a 14 hour trek aboard a lovely LAN aircraft, eaten more meat than I have in the past 2 months (that being my Christmas break), watched the Super Bowl in a foreign country for the first time in my life, inhaled more second-hand smoke than one should in an entire lifetime, learned how to navigate the area close to my house and school, served as a passenger in taxis more than I have in my entire life, went to bed at 5:30am the other night, and clogged my host family's toilet, to name just a few occurrences.  

From the time my host family picked me up at our school's "casa," (actually we have two adjoining ones, both millions of dollars, a sight worthy of it's own posting, which will surely come later) to the time I returned to the casa later that night to go out to a bar with the group, not a lick of English was spoken.  Coming into this semester, I was fairly confident with my Spanish-speaking abilities, but I was quickly dethroned from my high-horse once I was forced to mumble out incoherent, poorly conjugated, scrambled sentences to my host family.  Over the past few days, my confidence has grown, and I'm starting to catch on to the odd accent/dialect that is spoken here in B.A.  I have Spanish class for the first time in 10 minutes, and with class everyday, immersion in the city, and constant practice, I'm sure my Spanish will improve.  Needless to say, it is a whole new experience, a challenge to be sure, yet quite entertaining at the same time.  

There is so much more that I want to say, but time will not permit me to meander in the blogosphere any longer, as Spanish 252 is beckoning me.  I promise to throw up some pics and more postings later, after my class hopefully, as I have a lot to share!  

Much love to my peeps in the U. S. of A. and any other supporters worldwide!  TJ Out!