iguazu

iguazu falls. amazing.

thursday night around 7pm about 35 of us (a mix of my program and the semester program here in argentina) hopped on a bus to go to northern argentina. and this wasn't your regular bus. it had HUGE seats, a ton of leg room and this little dealy that folded down to make a bed. we where also served dinner and breakfast. friday morning we arrived at some ruins of a church built by some jesuit priests, and allow they were pretty cool, i feel like i've seen so many ruins they all are starting to look the same. after the ruins we headed off to a estacion, which is like a little resort area. they had a pool, a tennis court, a volleyball net and a bunch of areas to hang out. we were there from around 11 to 5. i got to play tennis for awhile, good times, and ate amazing grilled beef, chicken, sausage, and all sorts of traditional goodness. After our time spent there we drove to our hotel which was about 30mins away from the falls and slept all night.

saturday. oh my goodness. as you can see by the photos in my previous blog iguazu falls are amazing. i believe they are the widest falls in the world, aka they go on forever. we spent all day saturday visiting different parts of the falls, and we even took a boat that took us right underneath some of the falls. we got drenched but it was an amazing experience.
we also had the chance to go to the spot where the border of argentina, brazil, and paraguay meet, so that was cool. sunday we slept in then caught a plane back to buenos aires.



couple differences i've noticed about argentinian customs:
-the greeting and farewell kiss between men and women is now customary between men. kinda awkward.
-i now am able to put my toilet paper in a toilet rather than a trash can. love it.
-portenos (people of the port, or people of buenos aires) are extremely fit. they hardly eat anything for breakfast and lunch and there is a gym on every block.

alright. i'm off to go eat lunch and then go to my politics class. will update more later.