Emily came for a week too!! She got here on Wednesday and it
was an interesting Wednesday to start off with. So we get to the apartment and
are hanging out and the doorbell rings. It was 2 guys to pick up the TV. I knew
that someone was supposed to pick it up, so I let them come up. Well as they’re
about to walk out they ask me what address they are supposed to take it to and
I had absolutely no idea where it was going just that it was leaving. For all
we know they could have stolen the TV. For
all I still know at this moment, that TV got stolen. I never asked because it
would have ultimately been my fault. After all this Emily and I went and
grabbed lunch. A typical Milanesa that I think is awesome… however no one else
that has visited seems to think so. I guess for me American cheese is the closest
thing to flavor that I have gotten in the past 4, almost 5 months. We came back
home after lunch and let Em sleep because she was exhausted. She slept a bit
more while I went to class. I came home and she hopped in the shower. As I am sitting
in bed I see a little rubber handle under one of my drawers on my desk. I think
oh great, I really need to brush my hair.. I’m glad Em left her brush right
there. No, it was a knife. Poor Em had gotten scared when I left. When you look
out our back door you see straight into another window and she said it reminded
her of the movie “Taken”. I don’t blame her, I would have grabbed the knife
too. After that we went to Poke and had dinner so Em could meet Suji and Dayna.
Then we had our first night of spooning.
Thursday I had to give a test so Em came with me for that.
Then we went and walked down Santa Fe and had empanadas for lunch. We went to
Spanglish at the new location and then headed to Fabrica for dinner (no
surprise there!). Like always Suji invited some people to come with us, but it
ended up being a good time with lots of laughs… like it always does. Mainly
because I think Suji usually regrets inviting some of these people –haha. On
Friday, Em and I headed off to Colonia. It was such a beautiful day. She got a
good glimpse of what Argentina is really like when we were still in line for
customs at 12:30 with at least 50 people still behind us. Our ferry was
supposed to leave at 12:30. It would have been nice to have a little bit more
time in Colonia, but it was still fun. We got to walk around and get some
delicious ice cream. We almost died on the way home because we really had not
eaten anything all day. It was 8:00 and we walk down to one of my favorite
pizza places… it was closed. No surprise
there, people don’t eat until like 11:00. So we went to the pizza place just a
block away from my house then came home and rested.
On Saturday we went on a free walking tour of the city. It
was actually really interesting because I learned some things about the
government that I didn’t know. I’m sure we grabbed something to eat afterwards
then we went to get massages. We got an hour and a half massage for close to
$50 (dollars). I can’t really complain about that. It was much needed. We were
a little rushed so it wasn’t as relaxing, but it was still good. Then we headed
to Brad and Michelle’s Closed Door Restaurant. Brad and Michelle are the people
that I got my TEFL Certification through. It was their first night, so I
figured that was a perfect thing for Em and I to do. We had a lot of delicious
food. Emily got to have some red meat there which was good. I started feeling
sick towards the end, so I unfortunately didn’t get to try the dessert. I think
it was because we hadn’t really eaten all day and then we go there and I start
to stuff my face. But, nevertheless it was amazing and I will definitely go
back before I head home.
On Sunday we walked around the San Telmo market for a bit
and met up with Tom and his sister, Ellen. It was great to finally meet Ellen
after seeing all the pictures of them traveling together. Em and I headed to La
Boca and grabbed some lunch and watched a bit of Tango then just walked around
Boca and headed home. I don’t think Boca is really a place to hang out, just
one of the neighborhoods you should go to while in BA. We then met Dayna at her
place and tried a Mexican restaurant that she had found called Lupita in Las
Canitas. It was actually pretty good. It was a little different, but good. When
I think of Mexican, I think of cheap drunk food almost… but this was a pretty
fancy Mexican place. Then like always we went to Freddo. It happened to be
National Ice Cream Day back home, so I figured we kind of had to go get ice
cream.
On Monday I woke up to go to class, but ended up not feeling
so great so I cancelled. I think Em and I both needed that because we fell back
to sleep until around 11. We went to a little café called Oui Oui in Palermo
with Dayna and Suji. It was actually pretty good, different but good. That
seems to be the phrase I use the most around here. Then we went on the boot
hunt around Palermo. We didn’t find anything. I had class Monday night and Em
came with me then we went to meet Suji and Dayna at Osaka to eat. Osaka is a
sushi bar. I’m not a fan of sushi, but I know that Em is and I knew that I
could find something to eat. I was able to find some chicken that was pretty
good and the other girls ate sushi. I tried it, but it still isn’t really my
thing. We went back to Dayna’s for a bit because I wanted to see her place. I
really liked it and would be 100% ok if I could have stayed there my entire
time here. #budgetlife. On Tuesday we
went looking for boots again and what do you know we found some a block from my
house. I found so many pairs that I really liked, but (no surprise here) my
calves were too big for them to zip up. Stupid hulk legs. Em and I went to Beerlingual and of course
neither of us knew any of the answers. It was still fun though.
Now, let me just start the beginning of Emily’s trip back
home because it’s a little nuts. So we get home from Beerlingual Tuesday night
and I go online to book a taxi for us to go to the airport. I double check her
flight and it says: “Delayed 8 hours and blah blah minutes: Awaiting arrival of
crew”. I told Emily that and I was like oh they’ve got plenty of time,
whatever. Her flight isn’t until Wednesday night at 8:30. So we just shrug it
off. How can a flight already be 8 hours late, 24 hours before the flight takes
off??? So on Wednesday, we wake up.. go grab lunch with Dayna then come back
and pack everything up. The taxi comes, we head to the airport and I see people
talking in English. So I asked them if they were in line for the flight to
Newark and she says no I’m going to Houston and it’s delayed until 6am tomorrow
morning. Friendship starts being tested right at that moment. Emily’s mad that
she can’t get back to the States that night, I’m mad that I can’t go back to
the States for another 4 months, but then again I am happy she has another
night and I’m not all alone quite yet. We go talk to the lady at the ticket
counter and of course she only speaks Basic English. She is able to check
someone in, but when something like this happens, you can forget it. So she
tells us Em will miss her connection from Newark to Charlotte so she will fly
directly from Newark to Charleston. It wasn’t a problem, but it would have been
a lot easier if Em could get off in Charlotte because her mom had her car. Then
it sounded like the lady was saying something that wasn’t Charleston. We were
both trying to explain to the lady what we needed and that just didn’t work. So
we had to go to another ticket counter to try and get the ticket reissued. Well
then they said we weren’t even supposed to be at that counter there was nothing
they could do. So in the end she ended
up taking the 6:05 flight back to Newark then straight to Charleston. The taxi
came and picked us up at 3:30am. I wasn’t going to go with her until Mercedes
came in and started scaring the crap out of Em. Argentines make the biggest
deal out of the safest/easiest things and the things that should be a huge deal
they just brush off. We took Manuel Tienda Leon, one of the safest taxi
companies in the city. But oh no, what if someone stops you on the side of the
road, what if this happens, what if that happens… blah blah blah. It was so
frustrating. I wasn’t mad at Emily at all… just at how things are handled in
this country. The longer I’m here, the more things I seem to experience that
just make me angry.
Emily made it home and we had a great time (at least I
did). Living in a foreign city is tough and I think she realized that when she
got down here. She also saw how crazy it has made me. You have to be just as
rude as they are and stand up for yourself or you’re going to get run over.
Especially since we are foreigners, that makes it that much harder.
Emily: Thank you so much for taking time out of your “summer
vacation” (haha) and coming to see me. It meant more than you know. Thank you
for putting up with all my craziness that this country has caused. Also, for
putting up with the craziness that Christina has caused in this country. (I
hope she doesn’t see this and I don’t get deported). I hope you had fun and continue rapping to my boy, "Krispy Kreme". I’m glad that you finally
made it back safe and Matt better have opened every single door for you this
past week. Haha can’t wait to see you in November! Love you mucho
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