Instead, I spent the morning at a brunch at the apartment of one of my friends studying abroad here. This table became much, much more full as the time went on! There were tons of people there, way overwhelming as I knew exactly one of them before going... I met another Harvard student who I hadn't ever met but had heard about, some girls visiting from England, the other roommates of my friend, a German study abroad student... and I kinda gave up from there :P I think my friend kind of wanted me to insert myself into a whole new friend group here, but with only 4 1/2 weeks left and my schedule pretty full as it is, I'm just not sure it's worth it slash feasible.
Last night, I went to a birthday celebration for one of the SIP girls, Zuzanna. Below are pictures of her cake and champagne bottle-popping (sorry the picture is a little overexposed, the flash on my phone apparently does not work very well!). Very fun, very yummy.
I will close with a picture I took in downtown Buenos Aires on Sunday. I took the picture because of the protest, but I can't actually remember now what it was for. In the spirit of Flag Day, I'll say that I think the picture sums up BA pretty well – beautiful, but with a lot of room for improvement (how? a future blog post will discuss one way: let people buy US dollars!).
-- Brianna
PS Tomorrow, I will be getting a new host sister here. I'm not really sure what to expect, as my host mom doesn't seem to remember the details very well. I THINK that she is a graduate student at Florida International University taking a course at the University of Buenos Aires (the UBA, pronounced like grape in Spanish, I love saying the name!). I'm looking forward to having another person around the house, and to having another person who actually eats at dinner (my host mom sits with me, but she never eats anything). Had to move all my stuff out of the shower, as I will no longer have the bathroom to myself, but I think it'll be okay :)
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