2 months

Today marks two months of my exchange. I'm not entirely sure how I feel about it. Part of me feels like this time has blown by so fast. The other part of me feels life I've been living here my whole life, I'm sure this is because my friends and family are so great. I'm so happy with my exchange so far and know this is where I want to be but also the two month mark reminds me that there is only eight months left and that is kind of sad. I year is just not enough. 

Last night I was feeling so overwhelmed with love that I was lying on my bed crying tears of joy. 

When life gives you lemons! Make lemonade! (Actually these lemons are from my back yard! Look! I can grow my own lemons!) 

My friends love taking selfies! So here we are! 

Out of control quading!

How do you describe an epic fail? Perhaps getting stuck in the mud and running into a tree while quading? Pretty close, right? 

All in all still lots of fun. 

I got to give out rotary awards at my high school with Clement and Fede. Basically the class votes and someone is elected as the "best friend". Quiet different from rotary in Canada. 

I told my dad I liked potatoes and this was the outcome... 

First tango class was so much fun!! Unfortunately the quality of the picture isn't as good as the quality of the class.

Happy 16th birthday Flor!!

I very much enjoyed family dinner with these lovelies! 

This puppy was all smiles when I went out to lunch with the family. The ice cream was very delicious! 

Happy hug and exchange student day!!

This is how I spent my day,

First basking in the sun and a quick skype session from my crazy neighbor in Canada ;) 

And for hug an exchange student day, you need to be with other exchange students. This is Fede (Ferderico) an outbound to France and Clement the inbound from France. We were selling ice cream with rotary.

(Clement has horrible selfie taking skills lol) 

We climbed inside a tank (where I hit my head several times probably loosing brain cells).

We stole cookies from various little vending spots. (Not stole just borrowed) 

There was even a photo booth! 

By now I have accepted that my eyes will be closed in every single picture I take. 

Remember to hug an exchange student! We love cuddles!! 

French, fiesta, food

Sorry for not updating very often. 

Anyways,

Our French class when to Rosario for a field trip. We ran around the city visiting things that had noting to do with French class at all... Except the French embassy. It was super fun, we even took a group nap in the park.

This was part of the group being very hungry at McDonald's! 

The bus ride home from this was the best. I'm sure the rest of the bus hated us for being so loud and laughing so much. 

I can finally kinda understand school. Some of my teachers have been giving me special work to help me improve my Spanish. 

Speaking of school we have a "Fiesta de los colores" or party of the colours. There are four colours. Red, blue, green and yellow. We compete in many sports, like volleyball, hand ball and soccer. But also some that you wouldn't expect like tug of war, gymnastics and this thing that I don't know what it's called in English but I'll just call it dance. I believe I will be participating in all of these sports except the dancing one because everyone already knows the routine and has a place in it (probably a good thing since I'm very clumsy). Anyways I'm not the yellow team and very excited to see how things go!

One day, my Abuela (grandma) had her birthday. Since she turned 80 we had a nice party with all the family from various towns in Argentina and ate a lot! 

This is the cake and this is my host dad wearing a princess crown at the party. My family is always making jokes, very similar to my families back in Canada! 

Mostly what I've been up to is just simply living. Getting to know more people, hanging out with my friends, eating and spending time with the family.

Here are some bonus pictures that I took just because they are pretty :) 

Heart eyes everywhere!

Today I met the love of my life! He is the most precious and beautiful thing ever! I love him so much! He just so happens to be a two week old kitten named Orus that loves to cuddle. He can fit in the palms of my hands and loves to lay on my chest and play with my hair. Seriously in love! I wanted to keep him so bad! Just look at how cute he is! 

Today was a really good day. I saw 50 painters paint one huge canvas. They had to shut down the block for it. It was very beautiful! 

It was very big so I couldn't get a picture of all of it but this is one of my favourite parts! 

This is a Yaguaron! It's a legend in San Nicolas. Yagua is a dog's head and Ron is a snakes body. It was also part of the art today. 

Afterward my friends and I walked around and bought some food then went to the book fair at the school. They sold much more than just books! Including wine and cheese! 

Tomorrow will bring more adventures! I'll let you know how it goes! 

~Hannah 

Small updates

The other day we went out to Havana which is basically Argentina's version of a not as popular Starbucks. This was to celebrate Clemente's (the French exchange students) birthday. FELIZ CUMPLE! 

Many of the students here in Argentina have serious talent when it comes to art! This is a picture my friend Jano drew for me. I think it is supposed to be me in skeleton form.. It's awesome! 

Here is a little taste of Afgentina with the very famous freshly made Empanadas!

Tomorrow is Friday and I don't have school. I think this longs weekend will be fairly busy! 

I'll keep up posted!

Great day for 10K

Today we had a marathon IN OUR CITY! Only my parents will understand why that is capital. You see I thought that I was understanding almost everything by now. My host dad was telling me about the marathon and pulled out a bunch of maps showed me another city and said it was a 7 hour drive. Apparently the conversation about the marathon had ended and he was then talking about where they go in the summer. My bad! Anyways it was the perfect day for running today, sunny with a little bit of a breeze. Here are some pictures from today. 

The girls in my Argentinian family didn't run this time. Only my host dad Miguel, my host brother Leo and my friend Uli.