Another BA weekend

Alright, I feel I’ve given you a sufficient amount of time to catch up—I believe it’s been over a week since my last update.  Now, that’s not all due to lack of trying on my part—my email account that I use for this blog has pretty much locked me out.  It only remembers me on any computer for thirty days.  Well my thirty days were up and so when I tried to sign in again, it asked for the verification code that got sent to my US cell phone.  Yeah, I’m never going to get that while I’m still in Argentina.  So there is a process you can go through to try and prove that you are the owner of the account and they will let you in, which I filled out all those forms and submitted them, but it’s going to take 3-5 business days from there (which I feel like it’s been more than 3-5 days…but time is weird here so I’ll let it slide) to verify if it is me and if they decide it is, then I get my blog back (yay!).  If not, well I guess I’ll have to make a new account and start a new blog…that would suck.  So I guess by the time you read this, you’ll know what I had to do…in the meantime, I’ll just hope they get back to me soon.

So there hasn’t been a whole lot going on this week, I mean, classes have all started, they’re all going pretty well; I went to see Hunger Games a day before it came out in the States (it was pretty awesome); last night I went out to eat with Annalise, we were going to do homework at a McCafé (which is a separate building from a McDonalds here) at a mall, go to a pizza place a few doors down from there, and then call it a night.  Well, plans changed slightly…you see, the movie theater is also right next the McCafé…and Annalise randomly threw out the option of going to see a movie tonight as well as dinner.  I had no problems with this idea, so she went to go see what movies were playing and at what times.  When she got back, we decided to go to This is War at 10:20—that gave us about two hours to go eat and talk and do whatever else.  But instead of going to this awesome pizza place, we ended up going to T.G.I.Friday’s…it was right next door and we were curious to see how it measured up.

Wow, I didn’t realize how homesick I was until I walked in and was cured of it.  It was EXACTLY like the Friday’s in the States.  It had signs and posters on the wall (all in English), the menu had all the titles of things in English (and the description in Spanish), it had a wait-staff that chatted with you a bit (pretty a-typical here), IT HAD FREE REFILLS!!!!!!!!  This is the first place I have seen with free refills on Sodas.  It was incredible.  That alone will make me want to go back.  It was so great to have a little slice of home…even if it’s only a Friday’s.  Of course, this almost exact replica of an American restaurant sparked an interesting conversation about the impacts of globalization, and pros and cons, and what the world might look like in 30 years, it was all very intriguing conversation.  And then we also played MASH.  You know, that game little girls play to plan out their life?  You know the one, where you have categories for boys, jobs, number of kids, etc. and you have four in each category, and then you find a way to pick a number (less than 10) and you cross off every nth item.  And MASH stands for where you will live: Mansion, Apartment, Shack, House…and you act as if the results are real.  Yeah, that game.  It started a couple days ago when a group of people in IES played it because one girl, Emily, thought it would be a good idea.  I love how everyone knew what the game was, though, that was probably the best part.  And so Annalise and I made up a 19-category game of MASH.  We only had time to get through mine before we had to leave for the movie, but we continued with her life in the theater, but the movies started before we could start to count it down.  Now, the movie was great, I really liked it.  It’s pretty much a romantic comedy where two CIA agents (who are best friends) fall for the same girl, and they don’t want to ruin their friendship, but they also want the girl.  It was pretty much hilarious.  I enjoyed it a lot.

Anyways, so yeah, dinner and a movie, it was pretty great…also a tiny bit of homework got done.  Speaking of which, I should probably do some more of that now.  So I hope you enjoyed my short (but sweet?) entry, reminding everyone I’m still here and still alive, and still having a good time.  And to say “Holy cow, I’ve been here a month, but it only feels like a week. Where on earth is my time going and how can I get it back?  Is three months really a long amount of time to have left? Or will it end up feeling like another three weeks?  Oof, time is moving too quickly for me.”  And that is all.

Love,

Kiki

P.S. Yay! I got my account back and I didn’t need a new blog! Woooooooo!