Lo que pasa

So I decided not to go to Iguazu Falls this weekend; for one thing it wasn't exactly cheap, it also was a 17 hour bus ride each way and lastly I would leave on Friday and not get back until Monday night - I'd rather spend that time doing things in Buenos Aires than in a bus. I'll save that aventure for my next South American trip...yes, I'm nearly 110% sure that in my life I will travel to South America at least one more time. That being said, a few of the people I've met here are leaving, some for Chile and others for good (although the ones going to Chile I'll see in just a week). I leave for Chile next Sunday in the afternoon. I'll be living with Marcela, Walter and their daughter Maria. However, the best part of all is that my info sheet tells me they only live 10 mins away from the school...that's 10 mins in walking distance (yeah, I live quite far away in Buenos Aires, it takes me 45 mins at the best to get to school and any taxi ride home I take is at least 20 pesos while everyone else pays around 10). While I'm starting to mentally part with Buenos Aires I'm here for another week and still have stuff I want to do. I will definitely go to MALBA (Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires) and the Museo del Arte Moderno. I'll also go to the huge market in San Telmo on Sunday and on Thursday I'll head to the Plaza de Mayo to see the mothers of the Plaza de Mayo. Other than that, the school has some interesting activities going on including salsa lessons, although hardly anyone dances salsa in Argentina. That pretty much wraps up my time here, it's gone by super fast and I have a feeling that next week will go by even faster. Monday is a national holiday so I don't have class.

Wednesday I went to a tango lesson with a group from school. I have to say, tango is by far the hardest, most complicated dance I've ever seen. While the lesson didn't last long we did go see a tango show on Thursday night. It was at Cafe Tortoni, a hugely famous place here. Upstairs it is a coffee bar but downstairs it's a dimly lit, sultry tango bar. We saw a tango show they put on there; while it was very touristy and highly scripted it was still fun. I hope to see more tango on Sunday in San Telmo.

Palermo -
So Palermo is by far my favorite part of Buenos Aires. In all honesty I'm not so sure I'd live in Buenos Aires; however, I would probably live in Palermo -especially Palermo Viejo, Palermo SoHo or Palermo Alto. Basically Palermo is the trendy part of town with tons of shopping, art galleries, bookstores and restaurants. I've only been there once thus far but I'm heading back out that way around 9 or so tonight.

I really can't think of anything else that's going on right now. I'm still working on getting some pictures up....surely with the long weekend I'll have some up soon.