Sunday Funday

Hola  a todos,

I hope y'all enjoyed my post about Saturday night! Haha! Sunday, Kassidy and I woke up around 12 and headed to Alto Palermo to get something for lunch. We were missing American food a little too much so we decided to go to Wendy's for lunch. It was really weird ordering food from Wendy's in Argentina because although most of the items on the menu translate into Spanish, the menu was completely in English. We tried our best to pronounce our meals in Spanish accents haha! We watched all the little kids playing in the jungle gym and reminiscing on our childhood.This little girl got stuck in the play gym and we were talking about how scary that feeling that you were trapped was when you were little. One of the workers had to climb into the play set to go get her. Haha! On the way back it begin to rain and it was really cold. Yuck!

After lunch we hopped onto a bus to go to Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA) with our group. This time we didn't get lost (knock on wood).The Museum had a nice collection, but only three exhibits were open (which were all located on one floor). This didn't come as a surprise to me as I had read about this museum on trip advisor. I did like the art that they had there though. They had a nice collection of Avant Garde photographs taken during the 1940s. They were multiple pictures combined into one...sort of like a collage. Had they been taken today, the photographer probably would have used photoshop. I imagine that these pictures were the inspiration for photo shop. They had a couple of pieces from my favorite South American artist, Fernando Botero. They also had a really cool series of photos that were encased in glass that had bullet holes. The man in the photos was leaning back as if he got shot. Although it was small, I enjoyed MALBA.

After MALBA, we decided to go to a heladeria (surprise, surprise). There is a heladeria called Persicco that is located close to my apartment. They serve icecream on top of a waffle with syrup poured on top. Kassidy ordered a waffle with dulce de leche icecream and syrup chocolate on top and I ordered a waffle with coco de crema icecream and dulce de leche syrup on top.The coco de creama icecream literally tasted like coconut made into icecream. Delicious! I also ordered a cup of tea, which was fruity and delicious. On the way home we ordered empanadas and tostadas con jamon y queso for dinner and stayed in for the night. 

Monday morning I headed to my internship. When I woke up it was FREEZING (39 degrees). But getting up at 7 am in the morning in the cold was definitely worth it. Alicia and I are really beginning to bond. We had an hour where a patient didn't show up to their appointment so we had a lot of time to talk. She told me about all the places that she's traveled to (she's very well traveled). She also told me how her Dad's family were immigrants from Italy and her mom's family were immigrants from Spain. She still has family that lives in Galicia and she travels there often. She asked me all about my favorite foods in Argentina and what I've enjoyed the most about here. Then she taught me how to use the ITPA tests that are used here to determine a child's "speech capability age," which was very helpful to me because they use the same tests here that they use in the United States. None of the slps in the US have ever explained the testing methods to me. 

After my internship I had class. We're learning about Peronism, which is so complicated especially when you're learning about it in another language. After class I headed to Recoleta. I had seen a shirt that said "I <3 Buenos Aires" in one of the shops near the cemetery and I decided to go back and buy one. The bus went in a direction that was weird so I got off and just walked about a 1/2 mile to where I needed to be. The shirt was pretty cheap (80 pesos= a little over $10 USD). It was a little hard to ask for a shirt because I didn't know how to say medium in Spanish. The lady was trying to sell me a size small too! LOL! After I bought my shirt, I was exhausted from walking so much. I had no other choice but to replenish my tired body with helado. The shop that I went to was really small and there were all these workers standing in the front so I decided to just walk with my icecream. Everyone was staring at me like I had ten heads because it was such a cold day, but I didn't care. I was hot from walking so much and it was delicious. This one man even said to me "Icecream in this weather?" Haha! I finished my icecream and headed to the Recoleta mall. It was so expensive. The cheapest thing that I saw was a mini wallet that was $50 USD. Everything else was at least $100. So needless to say I got out of there really quickly!

Today was a simple day. Kassidy and I stayed up really late talking so we slept in today. I didn't really do anything after class. Just relaxed. I need this before this weekend. This weekend we're going to Iguazu Falls! I am super excited! I probably won't have an internet connection, so y'all won't be hearing from me until Sunday.

Ciao for now,

Jackie