Picture Time: Food & My Day In Buenos Aires

Now I have pictures! 

This is what the table looked like on Saturday for lunch. Yum, I know. My host mom and my host dad both cook a little bit, but the food is generally made by Cati, the girl who comes to clean the house, do laundry, and that whole shabang. 

We had spinich pie, meatballs, chicken, salad with tomatos and eggs, and soup with carrots, onions, corn, and a million other vegetables that I don't know the name of. But it was delicious!

The soup :)

The tomato and egg part of the salad :)

So that is generally the types of food we eat here. We eat a lot of empanadas, pizza, and pasta also. My family doesn't eat very much meat, so I haven't tried Asado yet, which is like a Argentinian Barbecue, but I will soon! The meat here is so amazing!

And now, we  move on to my day in Buenos Aires! I live so close, so surprisingly today was my first real day in the city, but I was so amazed. I am in love!

Portrait of Eva Peron

This was at a stoplight. I have seen this more than once. A street performer will come and perform in front of the stopped cars at a red light, and this time it was a mime! My host dad tipped him :)

This is the very center of Buenos Aires.

Plaza Mayo

This is Casa Rosada, where the president lives. The Argeninian White House :)

Casa Rosada...closer :)

I really liked the pink building, and that was the point of this picture. I think it was a little cafe or something.

This is one of the streets that is lined with trees. I LOVE this look, and the streets are almost all like this in La Plata. So beautiful.

The center of Buenos Aires

A really tall building!

The newer area of the city

More nicer buildings

Thats a Hard Rock cafe, if you can't tell. There are also McDonalds everywhere, and Subway, and Starbucks, and I saw a T.G.I Fridays! Crazy Americans...

This is what the inside of the mall looked like. We went shopping :)

I love this picture. My amazing host parents :)

EMILIO-My Bro :)

My Argentina Family :)

So today was a great day. I got to see most of Buenos Aires, and spend time with my amazing family. But there is still so much to see in that city, I might not even accomplish it all in one year. But so far, I love everything about it, and I am so lucky to live so close!

Tomorrow is the first official day of spring here...first official day of fall there :) And the schools all take the day off for 'Students Day', but my school takes the whole week off for the beginning of spring! I will still go to school every day, but there are no classes, and Bellas Artes does something called 'Spring Week', or 'La Semana de Primavera'. I have heard so much about this special week, and everyone in my school looks forward to it all year. I have hear it's like a party all week! So I am really anxious to see what the excitement is all about...