Avantt dreams and a bit of Peronismo

Ah, another great weekend, the theme: meeting new people...

So Thursday was GREAT! I got out of my grammar class early so that I could go on my field trip for Cuestiones Culturales. We were all meeting at the CGT (Confederacion General de Trabajo)which was started and created by Eva Peron. Our tour was guided by an oldschool Peronista who was this old man who actually got to meet Evita. He was great, he was so passionate and proud of his country and not afraid to completely fight for rights. He showed us the room where Evita's secretary worked and where Evita received her visitors, which was now turned into a huge altar like shrine to Evita, it was beautiful. Being an altar coneisour (sp?) I rather enjoyed this place, turns out her body was on display for three years in that room. I love it, everyone else was creeped out by it, but really what's to be creeped out by? Whatevs, it was beautiful,plus the old man talked about the 17 de Octubre speech Peron gave and how everyone was just possessed by so much emotion and enthusiasm, not really for Juan Peron but for Evita, she was the people's politician, she believed in fighting for her barrio and their workers, she moved so many people. As the old man talked about her death, he began to tear up. It's amazing how much she inspired in people. I know some kids in my class thought the fieldtrip was stupid, but I thought it was beautiful and it was amazing to see this man and get to know him.

After, me and my friends went and had lunch and the meal came with vino tinto, so I said hell yes and was a little buzzed during the lunch. After, we went to the Plaza de Mayo and got to see the Madres do their ritual walk at 3:30, it was great. It must be so consoling doing that...it's amazing seeing those strong womyn still luchando and never forgetting. Then Natasha and I followed this commotion and some acrobatic kids to this demonstration. Turns out the acrobatic kids put up this aparatus and starting juggling and doing aerial acrobatics on the aparatus. That and the flags and the live music and the Che images and the communist flags, it was so GREAT!!!! I love this city.

Sadly I had to make it over to my lame writing class at 5:30 and had an awkward 2 hours with our stupid teacher... I didn't even do my hw so I just sat there dumbly and tried to find ways to distract our teacher...That stupid class literally makes me feel like I'm in junior high again. He asked us why we all have to go to the bathroom all the time, truth is, I don't go to the bathroom when I step outside, I just stand there in the hallway to take a breather, that class SUCKS!!! jaja

So I went home ate, and then just got helado with my new friend Lauren and her friend Eric. She's super cool. Then I had an easy night in and went to bed early.

Friday, I walked all over the city, it was great and had some nice alone time. Walked to bib nacional, took pics, walked to Centro Cultural Recoleta, walked to this used clothing galeria and bought this short sleeved sweater thing for 40 pesos ($12), then took a bus to the centro and ate at this amazing place called California Burrito Company that all my friends had been talking about. I fell in love. The inside looked like your average San Gabriel Valley hawaiian bbq (jaja silly) minus the hawaiian food and the azn servers! The food was great, they actually had carnitas, and they were playing the Foo Fighters! I never thought that I would say this, but I miss KROQ and their repetitive crappy rock music. I don't actually have the Foos on my itunes because if I want to hear them, I just turn on the radio, not the case here. But it was crazy great hearing that and it felt like I was actually back at home! I loved it!

I stuffed my face with the burrito and chips and salsa then... I don't remember I believe I went home and chilled then met up with Lauren and had some spring rolls with her at a hole in the wall chinese restaurant that I love. Then we met Elizabeth and found this grungy bar with stencil graffiti art covering the walls. They give you popcorn as an appetizer and they have free pizza thursday and Alida later told me that they have a sweet terrace. I'm going back. So we chilled there the rest of the night and just chatted up the night. Walked home and of course Rossana was still awake at like 3 am.

Saturday, I woke up late, chilled at home and then Lauren contacted me and said she wanted to check out the vintage galeria so we went and I bought a sweet vintage hand painted purse and she bought this cute top to wear on her date later that night with this bartender from Bomba de Tiempo, sweet! Then we took the subte over to the movies where we were supposed to watch an Argentine movie with our grupo de interes but Aime was confused and we ended up watching Adventureland, super awkward, but still funny, another hit for Seth Rogan! jaja

Then Aime took us all to a cafe for a drink. Lauren and I then headed back to our barrio and ate pizza together,mmmm...brocoli! Then we parted, she for her date, me to Elizabeth's, I had finally successfully convinced her to come out. We met at her dorm, which is amazing and I'm jealous I didn't pick doing the dorm thing. oh well. We had a few drinks together then got to Avantt via colectivo. She was immediately grossed out by all the emo/indie kids, to which I responded, how could you not be in love with all these kids? jaja got in, free as usual. I also unestimated the smoke, Elizabeth was not feeling it because of her asthma, but she was starting to feel the music. Loving and a few others showed up and soon I saw Zelmar as usual at a distance with his long haired friend. Seriously, I feel like a teenage girl in love with a rock star when I see him. jajajaja I don't know why. Anways, I said hi to him and his friend and made small talk, but returned to my group of friends and later saw him making out with some girl, the first of several times. ah, heartbreak. but really, at that moment I stepped out of my stupid little girl crush and the subsuelo had opened up so we headed downstairs and I randomly chatted it up with this kid named Lucas. It was alright, talked about music and such, kinda awk, but whatevs, I just left and that was that. No harm done.

Later we moved back up to the main floor and we were all dancing in a circle and I started checking out this boy next to us who was dancing and just having a good time with his friends. Slowly I kinda just danced over to him and we started dancing together. It was great. Then we started talking, his names Eduardo, 25, studying to be an enfermero and was pretty free spirited. It was nice. It was really hard to talk in there. But he gave me his number and when I was on the colectivo home at around 5am I texted him and said it was great meeting him and such and he said we should get coffee soon. ah!!! crazy! ooh also, he goes to lots of shows and said we should go to some together. I'm so excited, he's a sweet guy, he added me on facebook and he's really involved in this organization that teaches kids about non-violence...jaja it's just all too ideal. A smart, cute, conscious kid who likes to also rock out to the strokes and such. It's great!