Bienvenidos a Argentina!

It wasn't easy, but I'm finally here in beautiful Argentina! My trip so far has been everything but seamless, due in large to the fact that I missed my group flight to Buenos Aires, held up the plane for at least an hour, and, needless to say, have been wearing the same clothes for 3 days. The reason I missed my flight is irrelevant, but I will say that it was not completely my fault and my time spent pacing the halls of the Miami Airport (oh, about eight hours) was....memorable. But-- I'm here now and couldn't be happier!

Since I had to wait almost a full day before catching the next flight to the Buenos Aires airport, my study abroad program arranged for a taxi to pick me up at the airport and drove me straight to our orientation location, an adorable little ranch about an hour and a half outside the city. The place was great-- they fed us way too often and we all really got to know eachother over the nine meals we had in the day and a half that we were there. Everyone in the group is great and I'm so excited to get to know all of them better.

Now im in the heart of Buenos Aires, in the adorable apartment of my host mother, Rosario. Its strange to call her a host "mother" since she is probably only a few years older than I am. She is very sweet, extremely pacient with my broken Spanish and I am excited to spend more time with her. Shes beautiful and quite fashionable, apparently just like every other person in Buenos Aires. I'm looking forward to seeing more of these beautiful Argentines tonight when we (basically all 60 of us in the program) go out for our first night on the town...¡Qué bueno!