hola a todos--
we have now been in BA for a full week, but it feels so much longer than that--we have been going everywhere and doing everything. i feel like i now have a pretty good geographic sense of the city, especially the barrios where my friends and i live--the microcentro is a little more confusing.
about 7 of us got up at the crack of dawn today to make it to the buquebus station at the port to sail across the rio de la plata to colonia, uruguay. it's about 3 hours away by buquebus (the buquebus is basically a bar, beds, and a duty free store on a very large boat). colonia is an old port town from the portugese and spaniards, who fought over it for years. mostly it was used to smuggle british goods into buenos aires, when the spaniairds kept really tight control of the port. it was incredibly picturesque and quaint--very touristy, but beautiful.
for some reason the picture uploader isn't working, so check back tomorrow for some pictures from the last week.
besos y abrazos!
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