Mar del Plata

Hey Everybody,

Hope everyone had a great weekend. Mine was a lot of fun, and really relaxing.

On Friday, we had orientation and registration for classes at the Universidad de Buenos Aires. It went really well and I hopefully will get into this class here that I really want to take.

After picking classes, I went back home to pick up my packed bag for my trip to Mar del Plata ( which translates to Sea of Money/Sea of Silver). Our bus was at 4:30. In total, 12 of us kids from FLACSO planned to head down that afternoon from Buenos Aires and arrive around, nine or ten that night. Unfortunately, the other half of the FLACSO students, who hadn't been in my group at Immigrations on Thursday, had to go to Immigrations (which I talked about in my last blog post) on Friday. And then, the computers crashed at Immigrations, so the students who went on Friday had to stick around till 6:30 there and about seven kids who were planning on going to Mar del Plata, missed their original bus. So, five of us headed down to the beach at 4:30 (the other group who had come from Immigrations were coming at midnight). The bus was great; although it was five hours long, it really didn't feel like it was that long and there was plenty of room on the bus.

We arrived at Mar del Plata around 10 and headed to our hostel, which was pretty good- there were eight beds in the room. We headed out to grab some dinner and then headed to bed soon after that. 

That night and early the next morning, the weather wasn't that great- it was raining and there had been a storm. We ate some brunch around noon, and the weather cleared! We headed down to the beach and met up with the students who had arrived early that morning on the second bus. The water was incredible! The waves were really great, especially compared to any waves I had seen in Massachusetts and the water was warmer than Cape Cod. Everyone from Buenos Aires had talked about how cold the water was, but I thought it was really refreshing. I got a bit of a sunburn, but I used a lot of sunblock so it could have been much worse.

For dinner that night, we headed to a local grocery store and bought some ingredients to make some sandwiches. We headed down to the beach and had a nice, relaxing dinner on the beach watching the sun set. 

This morning, we woke up pretty early so that we could head to the beach one more time! before we had to leave. It was a great day and it was awesome to get a few more hours in at the beach. We headed back to BA on a 3 o'clock bus and I was back home by 10. Today, I think was Daylight Savings in the US, so now I'm only two hours away from the Eastern time zone, as opposed to three. Also, I think next weekend is Daylight savings time in Argentina, so we'll "fall back" here and with that switch, Buenos Aires time will only be one hour different from the Eastern Coast. 

Below are some pictures from the beach!