More birthdays :)

We spent a really nice day camping the other day! There was water sides at the pool and everything! I'm definitely darker now! My shoulders look like strawberries though.. 

Then yesterday it was Nuria's and Agostina's birthday! I spent the day with Nuria and her new puppy Puki! 

Just look at how cute this puppy is!!

At night I went to Agostina's house for her birthday but I decided to go home quickly to change. Unfortunately the lights were out in our neighbourhood so it was hard to find clothes. Agostina didn't have lights at her house either but we all enjoyed a nice candlelight dinner. The lights came back on at about 2:30 am. I was very thankful because I didn't want to walk home with no street lights! 

So happy birthday to these 2 amazing girls and thank you for the great day! I'm a lot fatter now...

Happy birthday Emi!

Yesterday was my good friend Emi's birthday! My friends Sai and Rocio came over to my house to make a birthday present. 

It was a book that says happy birthday Emi we love you on the front and then we cut a whole in a bunch of pages and a whole bunch of other friends chipped in to buy money inside the empty pages. 

Here we are getting all ready!

And we finally made it to Emi's house in time for cake!

Somisa

I've been spending some really nice days in somisa (a sports club in the city). There's a pool, which is really nice with this heat. And you can play soccer or volleyball or other sports. You can picnic and play hard or just hang out with friends. Overall it makes for a really lovely place. I went there yesterday and made some new friends which was really cool. Here is one of the beautiful sunsets I've been able to enjoy in somisa:

I learnt how to play a game called Chupete the other day at a friend's house and I think my families back in Canada will be excited to learn it. I'm basically a pro now since my teammate, Jero and I won like 3 times!

Taekwondo-ing

So one of my awesome friends Leti/Lelu does Taekwondo and a bunch of us went to see her year end final performance. In part of it your friends and family could participate. So I went up with her and it was actually really fun. 

But I had no idea what I was doing and kinda half failed... 

Later that night we ate pizza, icecream and the best melon I have ever eaten in my entire life. We were all so full that we layer on the floor and talked and laughed until 5 am. 

As you can see I'm getting more tan! And super excited about it! 

Happy New Years

Today was a horrible yet beautiful day. Although there were many obstacles I had to over come today, the struggles brought me a lot closer to 2 amazing people. Today goes to show me that even with cloudy skies and tears that the most important thing in life are the people you are living it with and I am the luckiest girl in the world to have such an amazing host family and friends here in Argentina. I hope everyone back is having a great New Years and be reminded that frowns turn into smiles! 

Lots of love 

Hannah 

Bean

Yesterday I went to Faus's country house where we swam in the pool talked and had lots of fun with all of our friends. Before we got in the pool Emi asked me if I had sunscreen. I did so I gave it to him and we both put a bunch all over our bodies because the sun was very strong, so did a couple of the others. 5 minutes later Emi comes up to me with my sunscreen bottle.

Emi: "Hannah this isn't sunscreen" 

Me: "but I asked my host mom for sunscreen and that's what she gave me" 

*Emi points to writing on bottle*

Emi: "See! This is tanning lotion! We are going to be black!!" 

Me: "Oops.." 

Of course this conversation happened in Spanish but we found it funny how my host mom accidentally gave me the wrong bottle. We didn't even get that much darker and after further inspection of the bottle it turns out it's supposed to protect your skin aswell. 

Another family was in the house next to ours and the little girl had a pet cat (actually it was her aunts). They didn't feed it or give it water. The kids threw it around like a softball! Long story short we ended up saving the cat, giving it food (well the ham we had left over) and water. In a house full of mostly men, she was the little princess. No one was going to let the little kitten get hurt. She was quite adorable and it was cute to see all the guys being so protective over the little thing. I named her Bean. 

Here she is resting on my legs. 

And another photo of Bean sleeping quietly on the towel bed we made her. 

Christmas Day and pool selfies

Christmas Day I spent in my aunt's "quinta" kinda like a country house. I brought my friend Rocio (I call her Rosu). 

I tried to teach her how to swim but she trusted the floaty more than she trusted me. There was no way she was letting go of that thing!

We say in the shallow end and ate cake. 

And sun tanned until we were on fire and had to jump back into the pool. 

The other night I went to Emi's house with a bunch of friends. 

We took selfies in the pool (was I ever sacred of dropping my phone!) and sat around in lawn chairs enjoy each other's company until 5 in the morning when I decided it was time for me to go home and get some sleep. 

I also made a new best friend!! Emi's dog! Literally (her name is Emma) Emma is so adorable! And huggable!