Devon Alter

Today (Sunday) is a very sad day for me. My best friend I have made down here left Buenos Aires today to head for Cordoba for two weeks. Hopefully I can visit her while she is there. But even Buenos Aires is sad she is gone, yesterday was nice and sunny and today it is a torrential downpour!

Otherwise, this week has been interesting. After the futbol game, I was cold and tired and didn’t feel like paying for a cab, so I stayed at my friend Mayara’s place because she has an extra bed in her room, and the owners once told her I could stay whenever I want. Well, apparently they were not ok with it. When I got up Thursday morning, they got mad at me, told me it was not a hotel and that I had to pay. They told me that people pay per person and not per room. So even though Mayara pays more to have her own room, I still had to pay. It was RIDICULOUS! That night when I went back over there I avoided all contact with them because I was furious! I have had bad luck with some of the older Argentinian population this trip!

The next night when I went over there, Antonio, the man who owns the place, decided that, for the police and for his records, he needed all of my information, including my name (first, middle and last), place of birth, date of birth, passport number, phone number and email address. I gave him most of it but drew the line at email address. I want no correspondence from them! On top of all of that, on Friday during the day, Christina (Antonio’s wife) went in to my friend Rafa’s room while he was not there, took all of his stuff out and put it in his sister’s room. Because even though he had paid to have the room until today (Sunday), they had booked someone else in his room starting on Saturday. And the same thing happened to my friend Neil on Saturday morning. He woke up and was booted out! It is craziness over there!!!!

Other than that, Thursday night a bunch of us went to a dinner/Tango show with Mayara’s grandparents and cousin. It was great! And the food was pretty delicious too! Friday night we all went out for Mayara, Rafa and Eva’s last weekend here. We went back to the Mexican food place (which was better than I remember) and then to a club called Asia de Cuba. It’s a great club but there was one group of guys that were like vultures!! I almost got in to it with a few of them because they wouldn’t leave me and my friends alone. Luckily we had three guys with us that would intervene when necessary.

But one of the guys decided at around 6 am, it would be a good idea to do the worm in the middle of the club! Needless to say it was a bad idea. He managed to cut his chin open on glass or something and had to go get 5 stitches!!! It was a strange but fun night!

This weekend has been pretty lazy and tonight we will go to a bar to watch the Superbowl. WOO! As much as I love football, I LOOOOOOVE Superbowl commercials! I wonder if they will show them here or if they will show Argentinian commercials. I will be pretty upset if I don’t get to see them! Pues, vamos a ver! (Well, we will see!)

Besos a todos!