Pretty impressive that I´m writing two posts in the same week, no? Pat on the back for Dylan. Anyway, a couple of weeks ago, my family and I went to Villa Carlos Paz, Cordoba, for a week. "My family" includes: me, my host parents, my host brother and sister, my host aunt and uncle, and my three host cousins. Ten total. We left on a Friday night for Cordoba, and drove allllll night until about midday the next day. We were staying in apartment type housing, each apartment housing five. Villa Carlos Paz is a very touristic city, with a population of about 200,000 (a little bit bigger than Formosa) but during the summer, around 500,000 with all of the tourists or people with vacation homes.
We did a lot in Cordoba. We visited a German village, went to haunted houses, went ziplining (and be "we" I mean my uncle, 9 yr old cousin, and me, seeing as everyone else was too chicken), went to the center, which is like Church Street in Burlington times 20), went to the river and the coastanera, and of course, spent hours upon hours in the pool. And I didn´t get (that) burnt. The asado that we ate in Cordoba was also absolutely delicious. It was a great trip. We did a lot, but it was never overwhelming family time and there was plenty of time to relax. Of course, 14 or 15 hours in the car could be a little much, but the trip was great. I loved the city, there were a ton of people and stores and things to do. I don´t have photos on this computer but one day if it occurs to me, I´ll put them on my Facebook. For the moment you can find them on the Facebook of my host mother (Maya Doubrova).
Other news: swim team is going well. Now I´m going to the pool around 4pm and practicing until 8pm. Though it typically turns out to be 45 minutes of swimming, hour plus of doing nothing, 45 minutes of weight training and stretching, and an hour of pretty laid back training with the team in the pool. I think we´re going to have a meet in around three weeks, which is exciting. Though I think it might be our only meet for the whole season. And the pool might close after that.... so I don´t know what the plans are for the team after.
Also, this Saturday will be the HALFWAY point of my exchange (from the date I´m guessing we leave FSA) which is pretty crazy. I am glad that I did the year program, I feel like four and a half months would be really little, because we all recently got settled in and into our routines, and no one speaks perfectly, we could all use the practice. And it will be nice to have 5 more months with our families. I don´t know when my mentality changed, but at the start, I never wanted to return early but I was kind of just waiting for the time to pass so I could get back, but now I´m really glad to be here and really shocked that in a little over four months I´ll have to start thinking about packing and thank you gifts and finishing my "things to do in Formosa" list. And in 5 months I´ll have to actually be saying good byes... the time really flies.
And more news: my host mother left on Saturday for the USA, and she arrived there the other day and tomorrow will meet my grandmother and in two months will meet my mom (and it scares me that my two families get to meet each other -no offense Bui or mom). And she gets back in... March? The end of February? I don´t really know...
And that´s it for news. So I think I am all caught up on everything I said I would say... so a big blogging pressure is now off my chest. Feel free to send me emails or Facebook messages. I feel very out of the US loop. Did I read something the other day that said John Kerry would be the next Secretary of State? Totally missed that.
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