Week 1

It has been a week since our journey began on that Friday morning at LAX and I’m sure I speak for all of us when I say it feels like we’ve been in Buenos Aires for much, much longer. We are at the point where every experience we’ve had thus far has been new and exciting because even a seemingly normal task like ordering food or getting to school is completely different from what we are used to.

After we arrived in Buenos Aires and spent the first night together in a hotel, we toured the city of Recoleta and visited the famous cemetery or also known as the Necropolis. It lives up to that name because it is more like a city rather than the lawn with headstones that we are used to seeing. After that, it was time for us to meet our host families. As we all sat in the break room at school, waiting to be picked up by are new moms or dads, the air was filled with nervousness and excitement, and one by one,(and the occasional two) we left that room and went to our homes.

We have school four days a week and we usually have an activity afterward. So far, we went to the Museum of Fine Arts and tested our “suave” at Tango lessons. When we are free to do whatever, I've spent most of my time exploring the city and taking in as much of this experience as possible. Everything about this trip has been awesome and I’m sure that each of the many weeks we have in both Buenos Aires and Santiago will be equally amazing and profound as the first.