La Querencia continued

Hey everybody.  I understand that the last couple posts have been excessively long, so I'm gonna try to keep them a bit shorter to keep my readers reading.  Midterms ended today with Business Oraganizational Theory finishing it out.  Its a fairly easy class because I've learned most of the material already or its common sense or its in English, or a combination of the three.  Everybody told me that the professor is super easy too, and that the midterm was 50 multiple choice and a short answer.  Turns out, his tests aren't that easy- it was 11 multiple choice and 9 essays.  Didn't go as well as I'd thought it was going to, but I'm sure I did well nonetheless.


Somehow I forgot to mention in all of these posts that my wonderful family came to visit in between Mendoza and La Querencia.  They spent a week here exploring the city and getting a taste of local culture.  Unfortunately I was sick for half the time they were here, so I tried to take it easy a bit.  We went to dinner a few times, made a trip to Tigre with Brenny and his family, had an asado at our friends' apartment, explored areas like Caminito and the Plaza de Mayo, and went to tango lessons and a dinner/show.  Hopefully my lovely sister Marie will post the videos of Lynn and Sal doing the tango on Youtube soon.  As soon as she does you can be absolutely positive that I'll post the link up here.  Love you mom and dad :)

Saturday at La Querencia, we woke up around 11 and had breakfast out on the patio.  We hung out listening to some music, playing cards, reading, and chatting.  The weekend was really all about getting away from the bustle of the city and chillin as much as possible.  After being sick for the 500th time and entertaining my family for a week, it was great to relax in the fresh air.  Eventually a few people got some motivation and played a little tennis.  Belu and I headed into town to pick up some beverages for everybody.  The roads in the area are beat up old dirt roads and the car was a busted old compact, so it was a fairly interesting drive.  When we came back we had some lunch and hung out more.  To be honest we didn't really do anything at all that day.  We had tea time around 6 and then an asado for dinner.  That night we drank a bit and played some more games before going to bed.  For some reason, at night there are hundreds of frogs around the house, by far the most I've ever seen at once.  I have a picture or two of them hanging out on the patio if you check out my photo page.


Sunday was very similar.  Wake up late, hang out, listen to music, play cards.  We went horseback riding again too.  This time we headed towards the other end of the property.  We walked for a while just talking and enjoying the gorgeous sunset, but eventually that got a little boring.  We tried to get some pictures of us galloping and with the sunset stretching our shadows across the field, but they didn't turn out that well.  We had a quick race to take a cool picture, but Dave started behind me and his horse ran straight into me and half knocked me off my horse, taking me out of the race.  Thus, no pictures of me running, sorry.  There's a really long, straight, tree-lined driveway leading to the house.  As the horses got more and more anxious to head back, they wanted to run.  So we raced down the driveway.  I'm proud to say that even with significant headstarts and a bunch of prior riding experience, both Max and Belu both got SMOKED by yours truly.  What I'm saying is that my horse would have made Secretariat look like a little donkey the way he was running.  It was awesome, although it took about 30 minutes for my heart rate to calm down a bit.  Afterward we showered and ate and watched Iron Man, then went to the bus station and headed home.

The time since then has been just hanging out, classes, partying a bit, and studying.  The best thing I've done lately was on Sunday.  After a big party at our place Saturday, I woke up and went to the National Fine Arts Museum by myself.  I threw on my ipod and just checked out all the cool stuff they had there, occasionally just sitting and thinking for a bit.  Afterward, I went to a fair in that cool park I love so much.  I watched some jugglers, a percussion group, a really good reggae band, and some guys doing capoeira.  Then I met some friends at a cafe.  I came home, had an awesome steak dinner from the parrilla across the street, then watched Dexter and went to bed.  Best day ever.


Sorry if that was too long.  Feel free to comment anyway!  I'll be out of posting commission for almost 2 weeks as my friends and I are heading to Patagonia!  Itinerary: Calafate, El Chalten, Bariloche, Villa Angostura, and San Martin de los Andes.  Google them and get a little culture.  Chau!