Asado and first days of school!

Saturday night's asado was incredible!  Our landlord cooked 5 different kinds of meat, potatoes, and bread on the grill- que rico!  My favorite was the chorizo.  He cooked a total of 10 kilos of meat and we barely had leftovers.  The meat was all unseasoned, but far better than any meat I've had.  I hope I can find the meat market he told us about; I can't believe you can buy a kilo for just $2.  We met a lot of nice people that George knows and ate and ate and ate all night.  I still have to get used to eating so late; we didn't get to George's until 10 or so and and stayed until about 1am.  I like going over there and when he comes over because he has a cute dog named Bruno.  He also has a bunny named Miguel at his house, and Miguel and Bruno are friends! 

That was also my first time riding the subte, which I now use to get most of the way to school.  I cannot believe it only costs about 30 cents U.S. to ride.  As much as I love public transportation in Seattle, Buenos Aires can't be beat!  This brings me to the first couple days of school.  Yesterday was my orientation and placement test for my intensive Spanish class.  Everybody is really nice, but unfortunately they all speak English.  It seems like I'm going to have to go out of my way if I want to practice Spanish outside of class.  I'm also going to have to buy new clothes!  There is a strict dress code at the school, which just about none of my clothes follow.  I guess its a good  excuse to go shopping : )  I got sushi with a group of students that all go to American University before heading out on a shopping excursion on calle Florida.  That trip has brought me one step closer to deciding to dye my hair brown, although I'm not sure dark hair will disguise me because I'm so pale haha. 

I had my first day of actual class today!  My profesora is very sweet, but very hard to hear.  She speaks so softly that I'm afraid I'll have to move to the front of the class to make sure I understand what she's saying.  Tomorrow we have a city tour after class.  I'm excited to finally see other neighborhoods like San Telmo and Palermo that I have yet to explore.  I bought my ticket to the Shakira concert today, emailed an instructor about starting tango lessons, and signed up on couchsurfing.com!  My new roommate said that she met a language exchange partner that way and I hope to do the same.  I have announced on ModelMayhem that I am in Buenos Aires, so I hope I get some responses.  That's all for now and I promise pictures are soon to come!