I went to visit one of my extremely awesome exchange friends, Anna in San Isidro. I've talked about her a few times before. She is a super sweet girl from Norway and the one that made that amazing north trip video!
This weekend was Lollapalooza! A big music festival with many artists that I wanted to see! I had already bought my ticket and everything and then roarty informed us that we no longer had permission to attend the event. It was kinda sad. I stood outside of Lollapalooza for 3 hours trying to sell my 2 day pass. We met a guy that was also selling his ticket and studying to become an English teacher. We walked down the block leaving him at the entrance trying to find someone to buy this braclet! The guy we had met came running down the block after us telling us he had found someone wanting to buy my pass. So I sold my entrance for about 400 pesos less (like 40 bucks) but it was just a relif to even get that much for it!
Two lucky exchange friends of ours got to go to llola because one of the friends real mom from the United States was visiting and took responsibility for both of them. They said they had a great time! So here's a pic from the inside:
Instead of going to llola we took a bus to the mall and went shopping.. Now clothes at like crazy expensive so we basically looked and tried on things but bought ice cream instead..
I defiantly wasn't ready for this picture! Yikes!
This is how our hair turned out... I have to say not much changed.. A little bit more Carmel I suppose.
The next day we decided to go to a every important cemetery. The graveyard belongs to la "Iglesia del Pilar". It's one of the most important cemeteries in Argentina because some of the most important people in Argentina's history such as ex-presidents and other important and rich people have been buried there.
It really looks cool. The tombs are all fancy little houses. The tomb defines your families wealth so they would make them as big and as luxurious as they could afford. There were new modern tombs and old run down tombs, it was quite beautiful! And a nice place to take pictures.
There are also little boxes like this. It kinda reminds me of when the police have the dead bodies in those containment things so they can pull them out and examine them. Just a really antique version of that. What we were most surprised about what that the coffins were so small! Like the people back then must have been tiny because there is no way I'm fitting in one of those!
After this we took a walk around the plaza and checked out the artisan market, some tango dancers and then bought some churros. One churro each was not enough we definitely needed to grab some real food.
Ok so we are exchange students which means we are kinda broke. We tried to be cheap and smart about lunch/dinner. We decided to share a promotion deal dinner that sounded nice and included a starter, dinner and dessert. This was a horrible idea and te lesson here is not to be cheap! The starter was only one lonely empanada. The chicken we got served was just fat and tasted horrible, the French fries were soggy.. We ended up eating only the bread on the table, the wet French fries and stole the left over bread that wasn't touched by a couple that had just left from the table next to us. When we said the chicken didn't taste right the waiter took it to the chef, brought it back and said "the chicken is fine, you ordered the deal after all". Yup.. Next time we might just have to spend a bit more money.
On our way home we were waiting for the bus and we happened to meet another exchange girl that we had met on the north trip. She is from a whole other district so it was really nice to see her! She was with her best guy friend from the USA (he came with her mom to visit) and and Argentinian friend of hers.
On the bus we met an exchange student from Brasil that was in Argentina with another program. It was nice to talk see how his exchange was since he has already been here for almost a full year.
It took us an hour to get back home and then we decided just to have a nice movie night. 
She had a really cute cat at home named Jero :)
He wasn't to keen on kisses but loves his naps.
And this was the sun set on my bus ride home :) 
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