Well, last Friday marked the first week of completed classes for 60 American students in Buenos Aires. It may not sound like a huge feat, but let me tell ya, its something to put in the books for us. It's one thing to be taking new classes at a new school with new people, but to navigate around a completely new "campus" (you know, the whole city of Buenos Aires) is pretty cool, don’t ya think?
AUSTRALIAN SLANG OF THE WEEK: “MOSQUITOS” (US) = “MOZZIES” (AUS)
If you recall from my first post, one of the goals I made for myself here was to never say no to an opportunity that might change my life. I am happy to say that these past few days have lived up to this standard.
Instead of class this past Friday, everyone piled on to a bus and headed out to a beautiful nursing home here in Beijing, where we got the opportunity to spend time with some of the residents there. Fridays are singing days, so IES students came in, introduced themselves, bringing flowers and smiles and company, and joined in singing Chinese songs with our new friends. We played a fun game and performed both individually and together as a group, singing "A Thousand Miles" and sharing in laughs.
Probably one of the most well-known places in Beijing, Tian’an men Square and the Forbidden City. Even if you know nothing about China, you are probably familiar with the pictures of Chairman Mao’s portrait hanging over the main gate of the city.
Well I am officially part of the 80% of people who get some kind of gastrointestinal illness while studying abroad. I’m not sure what I got into, but I am feeling a bit better now.
The food. I am in love with the food in Spain but not the time when they actually have the food. Here, lunch starts at around 2 p.m. and dinner will not start until 8:30-9:00p.m. I am not sure if the time difference is the reason why I am in love with the food here but I am hungry all the time. It is very common to ask a few friends and go have tapas and some drinks after at night.
So as each blog post comes with the empty promise of posting more frequently I finally got the chances to sit down and make another one of these. February put the study back in study abroad, but with it brought some really incredible experiences; particularly the IES Scotland trip. Scotland will be getting a video and probably a post or two of its own. Scotland was awesome. This post however comes in response to a comment I received from someone yesterday.
