my first few days

First of all sorry about the punctuation but Im on Argentine keyboard for the time being. So I arrived on Thursday morning on LAN airlines (which I highly recommend for anyone traveling to South America) on probably the hottest day of the summer so far Diego said. I think it was about 85-90 degrees but there was 60% humidity which Im not used too. I have been just basically hanging out at the pool in Diegos backyard and looking for an apartment. I just found out this morning that Im going to live with some Brazilian med students for the month of February until the international students arrive and then I will live with a group of them. One interesting thing I had forgotten about is that most pharmacies have a lock on their doors and you have to ring a bell in order to get in...in order to prevent robberies.

On Friday night we went out to eat asado, which is delicious Argentine barbeque except there is no need for bbq sauce because the meat here is soooo GOOD! And yesterday we went to a quinta, which is basically just a vacation house in the countryside. The one we went to is located in Escobar and it had a padel court (which is a game similar to tennis & raquetball), futbol fields, a pool (pileta in Argentine Spanish) and of course a parilla (grill for bbqing). We arrived at 10am and stayed til 10pm playing all day and I made a couple friends that are girls! Here are some pictures:


To the left is the asado we ate...yummy!
And just below that is my new friend Euge, who is going to take me shopping for work clothes and more appropriate summer stuff! The third picture is the girls playing Chinchon and the next one is of the boys playing futbol, and the last one is Diego playing padel!

OK now Im off to the pool to catch up with the other girls tans!