This weekend a group of 19 Baylor students and 1 Hawaii student (I fill ya in on some Carlos stories later!) went to San Rafael. My cab driver picked me up to take me to meet the bus and he was speaking REALLY fast Spanish and I answered him the best I knew how. A few minutes later he just started laughing really hard, I had no idea what was going on until he said "where are you from" in English, when I told him Texas he said "I didn't know why you didn't talk to me, then I realized you don't speak Spanish" he proceeded to give me Spanish lessons the rest of the ride! We left Saturday morning around 8:30 and traveled to a place where they make champagne, it was really cool, it could have been better if more than 3 people understood what our guide was saying. We made our way to the next stop, a winery. Same goes for the first winery as the champagne place. The second winery was amazing....mainly because it was 3 in the afternoon and finally got to eat lunch! I've never had such an amazing chicken dish in my life!!! My mouth is watering now as I think about it. Apparently, the winery is American owned so we got a small taste of American food! We checked in to our cute little hotel, which turned out to be more condo style and just hung out in San Rafael for the night.
Sunday morning we got up and moved on to our second location...to say the least, it was interesting...
We drove for about four hours through this beautiful canyon and lake. I think I would have enjoyed it more had I not been car sick from the rickety road/old bus, but regardless it was amazing. We finally arrived at our hotel and all crashed for a little while. This hotel was nothing like the last! We were probably the only people staying there and we were in the absolute middle of nowhere. It almost seemed like we were stupid American tourists about to be filmed for some live horror film! They served us dinner there because we couldn't eat anywhere else. The rooms were about 12x12 (probably not even that big) and had two bunk beds and another twin and a table and two chairs squished in. It was very cozy. Most people went to bed pretty early and rested up for the week to come. We got home around 3 yesterday and I met my family in the "family room" behind my house for lunch. I was told my two year old nephew was watching tv the other day in English and told his mom "Annah talks like that"! It's very depressing when a two year old knows more French and Spanish now than I will ever know!
I haven't been feeling all that great the past few days, my mom says it's due to some kind of warm wind that has been blowing in, it changes the pressure and supposedly makes some people dizzy.
Haha I told you earlier I'd fill you in on Carlos. Oh Carlos...Carlos is a student from Hawaii, he's a unique, one of a kind person. This weekend he took one shower, didn't brush his teeth, and doesn't wear deodorant because "if you eat healthy, then you don't need it" (news flash, he eats the same as everyone else!) Carlos is a very, very sweet kid, but at times, he's a bit awkward...he's also an expert on everything, just last week he went running with the running group that is training to climb Aconcagua (the biggest mountain in Argentina)...no big deal, he finished at the very front of the pack. Carlos often likes to tell me about the joys of living in small town and alll about life in a small town and how different it is....as if I don't already know :) I asked him how big his town was and he said "oohhh about 15,000". Carlos says in his town "I just walk into any place and say 'feed me' and they feed me." Carlos always keeps us entertained with his life stories!
I'm soooo ready for next weekend! We're going to a spa and have it to ourselves for the weekend!
A few random stories from my house:
So I'm not sure where it comes from or what it is, but every few days they turn on music in the house and it stays on all day long. It's weird, it's three beats that play over and over and over and I can't for the life of my figure out where it's coming from!
We had spaghetti the other day...never again will I assume all spaghetti is the same! My spaghetti had a bone in it the size of a small cow!
My sister apologized for being rude to me lately!!! She said she was just going through a hard time, things are much better between us now and I'm sooooo glad! We watched a movie in English together, half way through it switched to Russian, then back to English.
My other sister is going to have her baby next week! This place is going to be full of newborns!
My dog, Pedro, is going to have a litter of Boxers the week after I leave, I'm so sad!!!!
Tomorrow, we're going to eat lunch at McDonald's.....I can't actually believe I'm excited!
I have to do my homework tonight, I'll post pictures later! Hope everything's going well for you! Chau!
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