Blogging?

Hi, this is the first blog I've done on the internet so listen up. I'll basically just be talking about my experience living and studying and doing whatever else in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

So far? A lot has happened. I arrived to Ezeiza International Airport Monday morning and was brought by van to the Recoleta neighborhood where I met my host family- Ignacio, an 18-year-old aspiring sports writer I'm going to try and turn into a modern, Argentine version of Hunter S. Thompson and his mother, Alicia, who plays golf and is better than most of my friends back in DC or Georgia.

Yesterday my roommates and I walked around for a long time. We saw Universidad de Palermo, our host university, and the famous Recoleta cemetery, where Eva Peron was buried. The weather here is a welcome change from the hot and muggy East Coast. Buenos Aires is probably the busiest city I've ever visited and it's incredible to see thousands of people walking, driving, or taking buses who knows where. DC is cool, but I like chaos and there's a lot more of that here.

Today, I woke up after way too little sleep (sad to say, because most Argentinians my age were probably up way later the night before) and got to go on a bus tour of the city. A headache and general fatigue definitely made me uncomfortable, but if I wasn't uncomfortable I would've fallen fast asleep on the bus and missed what was a pretty good tour of the city. My favorite place is the stadium in the La Boca neighborhood. I've always liked large sports stadiums and this one looks like amazing. It's more intimate than American stadiums with stands at almost dangerously steep angles leading down to the pitch. Maybe like a cooler version of Virginia Tech's Lane Stadium? My host brother says the Boca Juniors are poorly run but whoever is designing these 100,000 seat stadiums on American campuses could learn a thing or two from this place. I almost cringe when people brag about how many people a stadium can seat- that's definitely not what it's all about. The season here starts next week, though, so I'm going to get to a game as soon as possible and try not to be killed in a riot in order to better report on the experience.

Well, enough about a stadium I've never even been inside. But I don't have much else to write now.

To clarify, I feel awkward writing a blog about this trip, but I think it'll serve as a good way to organize my thoughts and a fun thing to look back on. Also, I think journals are tedious and outdated... for the first time in human history.

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