El Tango!

I woke up early this morning for an appointment to start the process to obtain a student visa. When you enter Argentina, you are given a 90 day tourist visa, which won't be enough for me. So, myself and the other students staying through the fall have to jump through some bureaucratic hoops to get student visas. The first of those hoops was an 8 am appointment for "tránsmite" this morning. While what really happened was a background check (I was fingerprinted!), the word "tránsmite" just translates to paperwork, apparently. Anyhow, I got lost on the journey there (as per usual), turning the complete opposite direction as a left the subte stop. Eventually, I made it to the appropriate place (20 min late) and then traveled back to Universidad de Belgrano via subte.

I got back to UB just in time for class to start at 9:30 hs. I'm really liking class! I've heard others complain about our all-day class, but I really enjoy my teacher and what we're learning. We've started to learn small nuances of the language. In spanish there are two different verbs for "to be" and when used with the same adjective, that adj changes meaning. And subtleties like that are really interesting and learning the connotation of words really enriches understanding of what's said.

For lunch, I went to get some yogurt, bread, and fruit again, at the supermarket nearby UB. I got all of that for $1.49 US dollars!

After lunch, we only have about an hour of class, and we listened to a song, and learned some idiomatic expressions. When class ended, I stopped by the ISA office to do some homework and then stopped home briefly before.....un clase de TANGO! We went to a little place nearby where I live (for once!) and in the basement, they had a class to teach us ISA-ers (and anyone else who came) how to tango. So, we tangoed! And then, we salsa-ed! It was very fun, and I signed up for a couple more lessons/dance times. It only cost $10 USD for 5 lessons, and its so easy to justify spending it haha. I have to be careful, otherwise I will quickly justify a lot more spending...!

Hasta mañana :)