Yesterday

Yesterday was a lovely day.

On the days that I don't use my bike, I take the "metro tranvia." It's a two and half blocks from my house. I stay on it for three stops (five-ish minutes), get off and get on a bus to school. This sounds fast, but I promise it isn't. It takes me just as long to do this as it does to ride my bike, between 45 minutes and an hour. Mendoza does have a really great policy where after you pay for one ride, if you take another with in the following hour and half you don't for the second. This is transferable across various modes of transportation. So I pay for my train, and then not for the bus.

Our university is in the middle of this beautiful (an massive) park. 

Yesterday I saw this on my bus ride through the park. I believe they were mounted police training their horses.

Yesterday was the  welcome lunch for all of the international students at our university. There were probably 150 of us. Before we ate we were broken into two teams (a red team and a green team) to compete in fun, spirit building type games. One example: we all had to fold paper airplanes and through them at a circular target on the floor. The team that got the most won. After this we all had lunch. It was really awesome to be sitting at a table with people from Brazil, France, Mexico, Columbia, Korea, Chile, and probably more that I am forgetting. Also, I met another girl from Maine!

After lunch, a few of us took a bus into the center of the city, walked through the main plaza (pictured above), and found a cafe to spend the after at.

In the plaza, Thursday-Sunday, there are rows of artisans. I love walking through and looking at everything. 

Ice cream! On the Peatonal, which is three blocks of restaurants, cafes, and shops just for pedestrians. 

Inflation. The government says it's not real.
This menu, with the multiple price increasing stickers on top of each other, says that it is.
There are several people on this program who were abroad in Buenos Aires last semester. The exchange rate has gone up since then. We're all getting really good at dividing any number by five.

More deliciousness.

To the left in the background, you'll notice a man getting his blood pressure taken. It is common for doctors to make house calls here.  I don't think cafe calls are that common, however.