Yesterday we went to los Lagos de Palermo (Palermo lakes) on what was probably the prettiest day since we've been here. It felt like walking around in a mixture of New York's Central Park and Washington, DC's Tidal Basin. There were tens- if not hundreds- of thousands of people out rollerblading, riding bikes, or attempting to body surf on skateboards being pulled by others on bikes or rollerblades. To save the embarrassment of riding in a paddleboat, my group chose to row. I'll tell you from experience it's actually much harder than it looks in the Olympics, but that may just be because our equipment wasn't state-of-the-art.
Afterwards we ate empanadas at a cafe then visited an Irish Pub... for a while.
Today I had linguistics class in the morning and then my first Universidad de Palermo class: "futbol argentino y mundial." I'm pretty sure I'd have a hard time understanding the guy if he spoke English, but he doesn't, so I understand it less. I'm going to be patient and just try to get better everyday at this Spanish stuff.
Oh yeah, and we had our orientation at Colombo-Pashkus, the PR firm I'm interning at while I'm here. It seems like a really well-run, connected company and I'm going to enjoy working there even if it doesn't exactly sync up with my major back at UGA. Plus, they have accountants and financial analysts there just like any other company, so maybe they'll teach me some tricks. Also, we'll basically start out in the "clipping room," meaning we go through papers and magazines and find things written about the companies clients and clip them out. I like reading and it'll help my Spanish, too. I'm just worried they won't have left-handed scissors.
I played basketball with the UP team tonight from 10-12 and I'm really tired now so I'll stop.
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