So...I worked all day and then just kinda lazied around for a while. Trish had sent out a mass facebook message to all our friends, putting together a sushi outing....I had originally said I wouldn't go A) I don't like sushi B) I thought I should take it easy and not go out this Saturday night. But I said, ok I studied for a bit, everyone was going out, it's our second to last weekend together and other people have monografias due sooner than I do, I can go out...So I did, I met Colby at my street corner at 9:45, then on the subte we ran into Kat! It was so funny, she just ran up to us on the train and she kinda scared me. Then at our stop we met Trish and Molly. We got to the sushi place and found Kristina and Sara Carothers waiting. The take out one that she wanted to go to was packed, so we walked a few blocks to the main restaurant, where it was packed too. At this point we were still waiting for Natasha who was in a cab on the way over to the place. We split the group, Trish, Kat, and Sara went to the other sushi place again while the rest of us waited for Natasha.
While we waited we came to the decision we'd go to this Mexican place instead, so once Natasha arrived we found a table outside the restaurant and enjoyed the fact that it was actually a nice night during winter in Buenos Aires, I was insistent upon the fact that we aprovechar de la noche perfecta. We texted the other girls, who later joined us and it was a quilombo finding a table to add to the small one we already had. We got a skimpy amount of chips and bad salsa, I was so glad I ate beforehand at home, I'm through with horrible Mexican food in Buenos Aires. We all ordered margaritas that tasted like slurpies and toasted to America and pretended that it was a nice summer night back home. It was actually really fun.
On the walk back and forth to the restaurants, I was conversing with Kristina about possible plans for the rest of the night. She said her host girl (Karla her host girl is like 27 and super cool) had invited her to this party that she would be bartending at. I told Kristina about this party in Plano 14 off of Corrientes that our porteño friend Juan had told me about. Then we realized that we had both separately been invited to the same party and decided we had to all go due to the shear fact that fate had put this same party in both our hands. We laughed at how small Buenos Aires actually is...seriously, I feel like everyone is interconnected here.
So after everyone ate and drank, we all headed over to the party in our big group of Americans, we got there and we realized it was one of those clandestino parties, the ones that occur in like old wharehouses and would be closed down if the fire marshall ever stopped by. We got inside and it reminded me of this one show Robert had taken me to on Christmas night one time. That one was in a wharehouse in commerce and 50 times more sketch than the one we were at.
So we go in, find a place to stash our coats (bad idea, someone spilled beer on mine, so now it smells like smoke AND beer! iupi!) and then we listened to the awesome band that was playing. They were great, I love argentine bands! We didn't see Juan anywhere but we said hi to Karla at the bar. Then the dj started playing great American music, including Cypress Hill (literally the first time I'd heard Cypress Hill since I left), Michael Jackson, and lots of 70's funk music...really at times it felt like we were in the 70's the atmosphere, the disco balls, it was great! Then later we found Juan and he introduced us to his two friends. I told him how I loved the band and he said he plays with them sometimes and he disappeared and later came back with a free cd for us! sweet!!!
His friends were funny, they seemed scared of us. I feel so bad sometimes, a big group of american girls, I guess we can be intimidating. jaja and those guys can't hand at all...they started sitting in the corner after a while. So we left there at like 5ish, and walked outside and talked for a while. At that point it was just me, Kat, Kristina, and Natasha. And I talked to the other guys a bit more, turns out they have their own band, they were just missing their drummer. Crazy times, those porteños are all so talented. Juan at that point had invited us to get coffee, I was down, I had already stayed out later than I had anticipated PLUS they had a CAR!!! I haven't been in a personal automobile since I left, I SO wanted to in their car, but everyone else wanted to just go home. So the four of us all walked down Corrientes, Kristina left first, down Juan B. Justo, then Kat, down Malabia, then Natasha and I headed up Ortiz. Our feet were killing us after a while and we felt horrible. Luckily it's Buenos Aires and everything stays open. There was one of those gas stations with a cafe so we stopped there and got water and sat down. Then we started talking about how it's the end and how little time we have together, and then Natasha gave me that look of antojos de medialunas, and as tradition with me and Natasha, she convinced me to go to a cafe with her and share our usual early morning-late night treat together for one of the last times. We went to our usual Plaza del Carmen near our houses and tons of people were there, getting out of the clubs, enjoying a late night treat before crashing. As we were leaving the cafe, we talked outside for a bit and two guys came up to us, they looked like they were going to be sketch but they just needed directions. Then two other guys walked by us and one with long hair said that he needed help because his friends with dreds had hiccups. jajajja dijo: hay dos cosas mas peligrosas en la Argentina, la gripe A y el hipo! jajaja and I said: oh no tengo tanto miedo.... and just silliness ensued. These guys were hilarious. Seriously, porteños are so clever! and witty...silly boys, but it was such a funny way to end the night, Natasha gave them her email address. We waited until they walked far away, then we each departed our separate ways.
Gah, it was such a great night. At the mexican restaurant, I was sitting next to Kat and she just grabbed my arm and looked at me all sad. Then she said she didn't want to sound corny but that we had all changed her life completely. It's true for all of us though, we've all been through this huge crazy life changing experience together, we've grown together and learned so much together. At the table, we had a big discussion about gender and sexuality and labels and Colby as always was getting passionate about talking about homosexuality and it was a great conversation. Gah, I love it, I love our talks and our debates and everything. I'm seriously going to miss all these people, and I'm glad I went out last night and had another ridiculous night with all of them!
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