Wow, haven’t done a blog post in a while! Life here is literally flying by and the last three weeks have been quite a blur and haze of activity, though now I can’t quite think what I’ve been up to! However, some things of interest that I can think of..
– Went to my first quincinera! Here, for girls, the birthday that you celebrate is your 15th birthday and it’s a pretty big deal. Typically the girl is in a big poofy princess dress and makes a big entrance. The birthday gal then goes round and greets everyone and there are video photo montages and songs. Infact the singer went over and sang, very intensely I might add, to her, being down in his knee infront of her. I was quite grateful at this point that my 24th birthday here didn’t involve that 😂 food came along and before I knew it it was about 12.30. I was literally just thinking that it was winding down when Noly leaned over to me and said “you do know this is only just beginning right?”. Photos ensued and then suddenly the tables were cleared and it was time to dance. First the waltz. The tradition is for the birthday gal to do the waltz with all the guys. And then the DJ put some bangers on and twas time for everyone to dance. Goodness me, Argentinian rhythm is uber difficult for me 😂 it’s all in the hips and quite honestly I’m convinced I don’t have any 😂 one particular highlight whilst dancing with Noly was that we were dancing and then suddenly over his shoulder I spotted some cabsha (my favourite cake) and was off. A cabsha break quickly followed 😂 a little while later we looked at the time, I was thinking it was maybe 2, 2.30 (it hadn’t felt like long since I’d last looked at the clock and it was 1.30) but it was actually 4.30 😱 so we took our leave and I got back to Marta’s at 5am.
– One of my 1:1 students decided to give me a payrise the other day!! Which was really sweet and actually a bit of an answer to prayer as I need to move out next year and don’t have much money to spare for accomodation so every little helps. If you are a pray-er, please be praying over my finances ! And also that we’ll find the right place for me to live in terms of location and finances.
– Had a spontaneous girls night with Luci, Vale & Sofi the other day! The boys from church were having an asado and so we decided we’d go to Luci’s, cook some dinner and watch a film. Love a good girls night 😊
– I managed to sprain my already sprained ankle again 🙄 in fact, I’ve had a few not very fun days recently with hurting my ankle and my laptop not working (thankfully my 1:1 fixed it for me but it was out of action for a few days and I need it for my work) and various other bits and bobs that happened or went wrong 🙄 but yeah so now I’m back to square 1 with my ankle. I have to try and wiggle it around a little bit each day and I’ve lost the progress I’d made with it but never mind!
Well that’s all I have time for for now so ta ra!
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