I have pictures! :)

This is a picture of all the students that are in Argentina (from the US and Italy)

Me at the Madison Airport!

The people from Wisconsin that are in Argentina

The airplane that I took from Miami to Buenos Aires

The dinner on the plane

Breakfast on the plane

My orientation site (in argentina)- front

Orientation site

From the roof of the orientation site

Flowers on the roof of the orientation site

The lawn of the orientation site... and some AFS'ers

More of the lawn

Yet another view from the roof

Part of Buenos Aires that you could see from the roof

The stairs leading up to the roof

The room that I share with my sister Guille!

My room from the other corner

One of the rooms in the main part of the house

The living room and computer

Living room from other corner

Dining room and kitchen

Dining room again

Kitchen

Kitchen from other corner

Stairs to the upper level (they are stone!)

looking down the stairs! (and the cat!)

The cat again!

A collection of elephants (My favorite animal!)

beads that my host mom makes out of magazines

What my host mom made with the beads

I hope you like the pictures! Un beso para todos!

Day 3... School :)

I have been with my family for almost two days now and I am having a great time. On Sunday I walked around my neighborhood with my host sister and in the afternoon we drove the route to my school so that we would know how long it would take. There was also a big soccer game yesterday and I watched part of that on the television. It was an interesting game.... there is a really good team called River and they lost yesterday and the River supporters went crazy. There were fires, fighting, and people were throwing things. The police had to come to help keep the peace. I guess that the fighting shows how much people from Argentina like their soccer! After the soccer game my family and I went to a hardware store to buy wood, because my family is doing work on their house. After returning from the hardware store my sister and I played a card game called quince. Overall it seemed to be a pretty normal sunday :)

This morning I went to school for the first time. Let me just say that it was completely overwhelming. I got to school around 9 after the school had already started and I talked to the director of the school. After getting all the information in order I went to a class. Immediatly after being introduced I was asked many questions. The only thing that my classmates know about the United States is what they see on TV. They wanted to know about  music, clothes, food, popular cities, snow... etc. There were so many people asking me questions I didn´t know what to do! Although I understand spanish pretty well it takes me a while to comprehend what people are saying, and my classmates thought that I didn´t know Spanish! They talked in English the whole time! I guess it is a sign that they want to get to know me! 

Well I still have not figured out how to add photos.... but I will figure it out soon! Adios for now!

In Argentina!

I have arrived in Argentina! I left my house in the middle of last week and went to miami for an orientation. The orientation was with students going to Paraguay, Chile, and Argentina. After a day and a half of the orientation me and the other twenty four students going to Argentina went to the airport. We had an 8:30 at night flight from Miami to Buenos Aires and we arrived at 6:30 in the morning. On the flight I got to watch movies and listen to music on a small TV on the back of the seat in front of me, which kept me entertained. The only problem with the TV was that the the seat next to me happened to be empty, and the TV was broken. During the whole flight the TV would turn on by itself then turn off again. The TV kept me awake the whole flight and I got no sleep.
 When I arrived in the Buenos Aires airport I was met by AFS volunteers and we went to another orientation. We were brought to a lovely house in the outskirts of Buenos Aires for the orientation. This orientation was more fun than the one in Miami though, and it included a dance party that went until midnight!

Then after we finished the orientation at four the other exchange students and I went to a bus station to either wait for a bus that would go to a different city, or to wait for out host families. At about six thirty a group of AFS volunteers from Buenos Aires came to tell me about my school and other important information. Then at seven my host family arrived. All of the AFS volunteers and my family thought that I was really nervous.. which i was! After introductions I went home with my host family which took about a half hour from the bus station to my new house. After my host family showed me my room and the rest of the house I unpacked my luggage and then we had dinner. Having dinner at eight or nine is one thing that I will have to get used to!

Well I guess thats it for now... I will upload pictures later!

Got my host family!

Well today after a couple of months I got the long awaited email....the email that told me who my host family will be. I will be living in Buenos Aires! The family has five people, a mother, a father, two sons, and a daughter. I can't wait to meet them! Only six more days until I leave Madison.

Waiting... and waiting...and waiting

It's only twelve days until I leave Madison to go to Miami for my orientation, and I still don't know who my host family will be! I have been checking my e-mail almost every hour to see if there is any more information, but there isn't. Hopefully I will find out my host family sometime early next week so that I can buy them some gifts that are special to Madison or the United States. Well even if I don't find out who my host family is before I leave, I'm still really excited to start my adventure!