Muchos problemas, pero todo estará bien :)

Today is only my fourth day in Buenos Aires, and I feel as if I’ve already been here for a really long time. I try to take it a day at a time, but I keep finding myself counting down the days until I get back home. I didn’t think I’d miss home this much. I didn’t think I’d miss America this much! The language barrier is much harder than I expected and I find myself confused often. I feel so clueless and incompetent when I try talking to locals. It’s almost paralyzing. So much has happened just within the last couple of days, much of which has been not so great.

Yesterday morning it was raining, but not too hard. After working out I felt really hot, so I thought I’d open the window for a while to let some of the cool air in. At that point, it was just a drizzle. About 20 minutes later, I heard Anna’s panicking voice saying the television cables and the WiFi antenna were wet, which meant neither the television nor the WiFi would work.

I didn’t even really think about the rain picking up or the fact that our cables were by the window. I made sure to stay calm and not look at it too much as a tragedy. I kept reassuring her that everything would be alright and that it would get fixed. I don’t think it helped too much at that moment, nor did it later that night when it still didn’t work. We spoke with Roberto, our “fix-it” man. However, I don’t know if it was the language barrier or what, but he couldn’t help us. Perhaps Roberto sees the situation as somewhat of a comedy, especially since the previous days’ episode.

Just the day before, we had trouble with getting our door open. In other words, we were LOCKED IN OUR OWN APARTMENT. Personally, I thought the whole thing was funny, but I restrained my laughter when I saw how upset Anna was about it. Turns out, Anna was turning the locks the wrong way. We all had a big laugh when we finally figured it out.

So, I think Roberto may look at us as kind of these silly, clueless, American girls. It’s okay, though. For some reason, I get the feeling that we’ll get to know Roberto very well in the next few months…

We still haven’t gotten our Internet fixed. So until then, I’ll either have to go other places, or pick up some weak one from the window.