Last Thursday, I was heading back from an interview and realized that I was right outside of the cemetery in Recoleta (the part of Buenos Aires where I live). It's known as one of the places you must visit in Buenos Aires, and it was a beautiful sunny day, so I decided to check it out for a couple minutes. There happened to be a tour leaving just 10 minutes later, so I figured it was destiny and spent the next hour and a half learning about the various important people and places in the cemetery.
During the course of the tour, I actually ran in to the Harvard Study Abroad group on a tour of their own. Unlike the Summer Internship Program students, I haven't been spending any time at all with the Study Abroad-ers, so it was fun to see them (although I didn't stop to chat, my group was heading on and I don't really know any of them anyway). The leader of that group is a professor I had my freshman year at Harvard though, Johanna Liander. She didn't know I was in Buenos Aires, so it was fun surprising her! We're going to meet for coffee sometime soon.
We of course stopped by the Duarte family tomb, where Eva Perón is buried. Apparently there can often be a huge line to see it, but it wasn't too bad for us.
I also met a UBA law student on the tour, Victoria. I gave her own of my handy-dandy business cards, and she emailed me later. She was very nice, and I'm hoping to hang out with her some more, because it would be fun to have some Argentine friends here as well :)
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