it hasn't even been a week since i arrived in mendoza...it has literally felt like a month has gone by. these past 2 or 3 days have been nice but i feel lazy because i just hang out with my friends from the ifsa program. for the most part, we speak english because it's so much more convenient. however, i do feel as if my spanish speaking ability has been dormant for the past few days. obviously it has gotten better just being around it all the time, but it's hard to talk in spanish with people who are on the same level. mendoza is beautiful!! it is winter here now, and is cold as balls. it snowed last night. and because there is no humidity, it's just bonechillingly freezing. so going out into the city is a pain because it's so cold and hard to motivate yourself for a night out...but taxis are a great help! other than that, life is good. i'm starting to miss mi familia en vermont, but having a good group of friends here definitely helps. having some free time is nice too, today (as in at 4pm) a bunch of us went to the peatonal, similar to church street in burlington. no cars, just people and cafes and shops. really nice. we sat in 2 cafes for an hour and just talked and drank cafe con leche. the coffee is reaaally good here too, argentines are all about the quality over the quantity. we also walked through plaza independencia, the biggest plaza in mendoza. not quite sure when classes start, but i signed up for 8 classes for our "shopping period": we get two weeks to go to classes and try them out to see if we like them before our official classes start. pretty sure that period starts on monday, but not positive.
my family making HOMEMADE pasta...what??
plaza independencia. yes, the water is dyed blue. and yes, it looks that disgusting in real life.
another thing about mendoza. there are dogs everywhere. stray dogs are like squirrels. there are dogs and PIGEONS everywhere you look. el doctor was not kidding about being careful with dogs and rabies. it's so cold here too, these two dogs were curled up together in the plaza. it's so weird to have stray dogs just walking around in the plazas and parques. they also tend to follow people around, begging for food, i swear i have seen the same dog in the park at least 5 times. it's sad, but interesting that dogs are equivalent to animals such as squirrels or bunnies here.
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