Less than a week into our stay in BA and we already feel like locals. To save money we’ve been walking most places, getting to know our way around the central districts pretty well. We had our second day at school today – 7:30 alarm for a 9:30 start. I think we had both forgotten how tiring concentration can be. We returned home this afternoon and I promptly lay down for a nap! We’re not at any useful conversation standard yet, although I am starting to have a few of those moments where suddenly a light turns on somewhere in the brain: this is why people were looking at me funny. It turns out that Argentinian Spanish is like Spanish Spanish, but with some different words and lot of shooshing (words written with "ll" or "y" in them tend to be pronounced with the "shh" sound) – yes Jason, you did tell me it would be like this.
Tonight we met up again with Sean, our friend from Posadas. It was lovely catching up over dinner and as we started heading home we found Dan and Gita hailing us from the window of a friendly bar. More beers ensued and now Kizzy is pleased as punch that although we’re thousands of miles from home, “we have a social life!” Dan and Gita are doing a very similar trip to us. It turns out they were on the same flight from London, spent the same day in Rome and the same three days in Rio. We overlapped again in Ilha Grande, Paraty and Iguazu Falls but until today the only time we’ve actually run into each other has been on the 6 hour bus journeys, It was really nice to have a few drinks together. Just a shame we could only stay for a couple – it’s a school night and I’ve got homework to do!
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