"Senor Tengo" and Tigre

On Tuesday night we had Convo and then as a group went out to a dinner tango show at a place called "Senor Tengo." As you can imagine, it was quite touristy, but the steak was good and so were the dancers. There was more than just tango dancers, but also singers, musicians, etc. that put on a whole show about Argentina. It was fun, but it lasted 2.5 hours, which was much to long for a large group of college students! It was worth waiting though, because at the end they sang "Don't Cry for Me Argentina" in Spanish.

I am taking a class called "The International Experience" and we get to go somewhere fun in the city every Thursday for a tour of some sort that Pepperdine pays for. At the end of the course we write a paper on what we learned, and that is that. Today was our first excursion, and we went to a place outside the city called Tigre. We took a boat tour down Tigre River, which was beautiful. There were a lot of houses along the river that people use as summer vacation homes. There was also a large aumsement park on the water, which is one of the most famous in South America - kind of like their Disneyland. After the boat tour, we went to the famous market place and fruit stand and looked around. We got tired pretty quickly, because it was blazing hot. Then we came back to the Pepperdine Casa for our weekly Asado (BBQ)!

I am still really enjoying my time here, my family has been really great. She cooks pretty good meals, and we have not had anything twice since I have been here. I had my first laundry experience this week, as we take it somewhere to be done. My parents have a small washing machine in the house, and no drier, which is common. Pepperdine pays for us all to get our laundry washed somewhere near our houses. I just dropped my clothes off and picked them up the next day all ready to go. They smelled a little weird, but they were clean! I have a Spanish test tomorrow so I have been studying for that. I feel like we do so much here that it is hard to fit in school work, even though I know that is why we are really here! On Saturday we leave for Chile, and we got our itineraries, and it seems amazing! I will update you all when I get back from that trip in a week or so. We will be on a cruize most of the time, so I will probably be unreachable... just FYI. Love you all!

PS - Happy almost Birthday Tyler!!