I was lazy pretty much all day on Sunday, and spent the day reading/watching a movie/doing my homework etc. Joe spent the day at a friend’s house using their internet and Lauren was still at Iguazu Falls, so I had the apartment to myself. I tried to go back to the café again that night to steal their internet, only to find out that their wifi wasn’t working. Booo. I called the realtor again to harass him about the internet, among other things, and got nowhere.
On Monday, I spent most of the morning reading and listening to music by the pool, which was the first time I’ve really gotten take advantage of having a pool in our apartment building. I made lunch and hung out with Joe for a while, and then worked on updating my blog in a word document (the online version is now almost a month behind due to the lack of internet.) The afternoon involved more harassing of the realtor, etc. Altogether an uneventful day, but considering that all of my people are currently scattered around the country (the girls are in Iguazu, and the boys, Emily, and Catherine are all in Patagonia), I don’t feel too bad about my lack of itinerary.
Tuesday, March 24 was a feriado- which meant no class! Lauren came home from Iguazu and spent the morning trying to get a visa from the Brazilian embassy for her trip. After she got back (the embassy was closed) we spent a few hours laying out by the pool and getting some sun. We watched TV for a bit and then made pasta for dinner. Pasta is very quickly becoming a huge part of my diet- maybe I should branch out a little in my cooking. The girls came over that night for ice cream and we watched part of a really terrible movie on TV before going to bed.
Wednesday the 25th was mostly reserved for errands. I dropped off some laundry at the laundromat across the street, and then wandered around the city for a few hours going in every bookstore I could find to ask about my school books. I met up with Lauren after her trip to the Brazilian embassy (which was successful this time) for lunch. Afterwards, we got ice cream at Sei Tu, the same amazing ice cream chain from Villa Gesell that we finally found in Buenos Aires! We both got chocolate granizado (which roughly equates to heaven) and can only be found at that particular chain. We also received a bunch of text messages from Joe, who was supposed to let the maid in that morning, show her around, etc, since neither Lauren or I could be there. Apparently the maid showed up and had security pound on our door for forty minutes. Although Joe swore at first that he was awake and never heard anything, he later admitted that he might have slept through it. Basically, what it came down to is that we paid for another week of the cleaning service and did not get it. Fantastic. After ice cream, I headed off to my first class at UBA. The kids in my class are literally from everywhere (USA, Canada, China, Japan, Bangladesh, Holland, Germany, Brazil, England, Switzerland, etc) which was a nice change from UCA, where it seems like everyone’s either from Argentina or the States. After class, I ran to San Andres, where my next class started at exactly the same time as my UBA class ended. I made it, fortunately, in time to meet up with everyone for a walking tour of the city with our cool tour guide. I actually learned a lot, which was unexpected since a lot of the places we visited were places we’ve seen on tours before. The girls and I all hopped on the bus after class to head home, where we were accosted by a sketchy guy who told us to go to a certain bar every Thursday night at 7 for a special meeting, and a mean lady who came up to the seat where I was sitting and ordered me to move so she could sit down. We finally got back home, picked up our laundry and made dinner, and then headed over to the girls’ apartment to use internet and do our homework. The girls really deserve a medal for putting up with us- we invade their house to steal their internet so often that I’m amazed they’re not sick of us yet.
I got up super early on Thursday and went to UCA to take care of a bunch of paperwork-type things. I finally got my student ID, and tried register for classes. However, the lady at the registration desk gave me shit about my schedule, because my email requesting a change in courses missed the deadline by something like three hours. Never mind that I haven’t had internet for a month and we weren’t informed of the deadline until the day of. I ended up emailing the head of the Latin American studies program (which all of my classes are in) begging him to let me make the changes anyway because I had already talked to the professors, bought the books, attended the new classes, and started the homework/projects for each. Went to my Cuentos class and had lunch afterwards, and headed over to UBA only to find out that my class was canceled due to a strike. Apparently this is considered completely normal. Not that I’m complaining- I loved having the afternoon off. I ended up meeting up with Lis, and we went to buy my UBA book, and tried to get international student IDs, which apparently get you discounts on travel expenses and such. Unfortunately, we found out that you need about fifty different forms and types of identification to get them, so we gave up and took the subte back. I spent my unexpected free time hanging out at house. Steve texted me saying that he was on his way over with the money he owed me, so I waited for about an hour before finally calling him to figure out how he managed to get lost in the 15 blocks between our apartments. He then told me that he did not have my money, and could not take it out of the bank for me since all of the ATMs in the city were magically broken and would not accept his card. Strike two on operation pay-Katie-her-money-which-has-been-owed-for-over-a-month. Considering how fast the exchange rate is increasing, if I don’t get it back soon I’ll be losing a lot of money. After determining that Steve was not coming over, I headed back to UCA for my Revolutions class, only to find that it was canceled as well. Slightly pissed about the hour and a half in transit that was wasted on the trip out there and back, but oh well. Lauren and I made dinner (we work perfectly together- we decided that we’d make a perfect lesbian couple), and then sat around eating popcorn and watching bad movies on TV. Spent the rest of the night doing homework and went to bed.
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I don't like Steve.
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