Getting Ready

I have been in Argentina for some time now. And now I'm starting to think about the rest of my time here and what im going to do. Its really scarry, because I feel like I have alot of time left here, but really I don't. When I looked at the weekends I have left in which im able to travel, I'm down to only 4 or 5 more weekends. This is not nearly enough time! I have so many things I want to see and do here in Argentina. I've been absolutely loving my time here, so it is hard to think about it ending. At the same time I am excited to get back and see everyone, but maybe they can come down and visit me, then I could stay here longer!


This week I finally got one of my trips planned. I'm going to Bariloche!!!!! I am so excited for this it is going to be absolutely amazing! Bariloche is in the southern part of the Argentina in a region called Patagonia. There is a park near Bariloche which is said to have inspired Walt Disney to create the movie Bambi. I cannot wait to tell you all about Bariloche after my trip. I leave on Thursday the 6th at 11 o'clock in the morning and arrive in Bariloche at 9:20 in the morning the next day. Now you might ask why is it going to take so long? Well Bariloche is very far from Rosario and instead of flying my group and I have opted to take a bus. Why? Well it is about 300 dollars cheaper than flying. Taking the bus is rediculously cheap. I paid 724 pesos for round trip tickets to Bariloche. This is the equivalent of about 181 USD. When you look at the distance that I'm going to travel this is very very cheap. The downside im sure your seeing. Its 22 hours on a bus. Well Im looking on the brightside; I will get to see the country side, I will be able to sleep on the bus, and I will be saving a bunch of money!

I got my first care package from home this week! I have been waiting for weeks for the packages and I finally got one of them. It took my birthday cookies from Granny (Betty Becker) 5 weeks to make there way to Argentina. They are a little hard now....but they are still good! Now im just waiting for the others to arrive. I've learned to be patient with the postal service, it took 20 days for me to recieve a letter so who knows how long some of these packages will take?


This week has been pretty laid back. I havent done a whole lot, and im going to try and take this weekend pretty easy. I've gone out every weekend Ive been in Rosario so far so I want to spend one weekend just trying to get ahead on my homework so that I have less to worry about when I go to Bariloche.

While I have one of my trips planned, I have others I need to get planned out. As those of you who read my blog last week know I still need to go to Iguazu to see the waterfalls. I'm trying to figure out plans for this as well. I am thinking about going the weekend after I go to Bariloche. I dont exactly want to do them back to back but it is almost unaviodable, as I would like to go back to Buenos Aires on the weekend of the 28th-31st. Then it is almost time for finals....AHHHH Its all going so fast!

Finally I want to talk about how distant I feel from the rest of the world some times here. Like I have said I absolutely love it her! But I definitely have missed out on a lot of news. Back at home I feel like I do a fairly good job of keeping up to date on the news of the nation and the world. Here I have not been reading the paper, I dont watch the 5, 6, or 10 o'clock news, and I havent been checking things online like I do back home. Perhaps this is a result of the laid back lifestyle here or maybe I just havent been making time for it like I do at home. At any rate I do kind of miss this. It is an easy fix I just have to check the internet more, buy the paper every now and again, or find out when the national news is on here.

Well I'm going to get started on my homework. Or at least try if facebook or skype dont pull me away to long. I'm wishing you all the best.

-Nick