a productive day

September 15
Today was a busy day. Got up and ate breakfast, rode the bus to the omnibus station, which my host sister told me is a dangerous part of town—who knew? Yikes. I bought my ticket for rosario then hopped on the subte to head to belgrano. I made my way through a couple different trains and ended up right where I wanted. I walked to the cooking school and registered for a modern argentine cooking class. Yippy. The lady told me to pick up my chef coat on the first day. . I then got a ice cream cone (banana and dulce de leche and dulce de leche granazado—this means with chocolate chunks). I rode the subte back to FLACSO where I printed out my assignments and registered for my hostel. I then headed out to get lunch before I went to my tutoring session. My lunch was a bit of a bust. I didn’t have that much time, and I didn’t really feel like anything in particular. I ended up getting empanadas (which were the worst I have had) and a cereal bar and some “artisan” marshmallows. I had a good tutoring session, I am really glad I took advantage of this service. She is so knowledgeable. I think I am going to focus on the floggers for my final paper. They are an urban tribe focused around the website fotolog.com, which is a site almost like facebook, but focused around pictures. I then did more errends, got more money (since I spent so much today! ahh) and went grocery shopping and picked up my laundry. My last stop was the bakery where I bought myself a little cake.  (stay tuned for the picture) I came home and had some cake and mate, and started my reading for tomorrow. I am now writing this blog, and not doing my reading, but I think I will work a bit on my outline for my tribus paper then go back to my reading.
I was going to go to a school tomorrow to do a language exchange, but I was the only one who signed up so it got postponed until next week. I am crossing things off my list, like the cooking class. Now I just need to figure out what I am going to do for developing my tango skills, and book a couple more trips and excursions.  I cant believe I have been here for almost 2 months. Loco.
September 14
I made breakfast today! I got up early and made dutch babies for the family. Unfortunately they did rise as expected and the oven burned them a bit. But they were still good. Spent the rest of the day sitting on the edge of my bed (the place where I get wireless) writing my paper for my service learning class, and procrastinating. I planned out my Monday and decided about buses and classes.