Things looking up...

So... I forgot to post this a long time ago. MY BAD!

January 20, 2011

Good news... Today is the first full day we've had our Internet and TV in our apartment. Turns out, the problem wasn't with the actual WiFi antenna nor the television. The power serge was out. Praise God, 'cause I definitely didn't want to pay for a new, well, EVERYTHING.

The new day brought new... adventures. (Apparently, when things go wrong or there are inconveniences or more problems, my fellow travelers call it an "adventure." I wouldn't mind using that...)

The first "adventure" of the day happened on our way to class. Everyday this week, all of us (meaning all of us Mizzou students on the trip) have been taking the city buses to get to class. Anna and I usually walk a long ways to catch the bus with some of the others, so this time, we decided to take a chance and learn a different bus route to class from a stop much closer to our apartment.

One thing about Argentine transportation is if you don't know what you're doing, you REALLY don't know. It can be quite confusing even without the language barrier, but with that piled on... oh, mama.

So, we ended up catching the right bus (well, the number anyway), but on the wrong side of the road. This meant, we were going the complete OPPOSITE direction of the school. Great. Too bad we didn't figure this out until we were about 20-25 minutes into the route. We ended up arriving to class a half an hour late. I'd normally stress out about that, but for some reason, I wasn't.

That's one thing I've noticed since being here. It's almost as if as soon as I arrived here, small problems don't bother me. Even some big one's. With all the things that have gone wrong this week, I've been pretty chill about it. I don't know, but maybe I'm just in the Latin mindset.... tranquilo... ("relax"). It's a cultural thing (mainly outside the States, where people are high-strung on time restraints and whatnot), to just go with the flow. It's a good thing too, because our professor just laughed at us jokingly. He's much more gracious and understanding than some other professors I've had in the past.

I'm usually a Type A person, so it will be interesting to see how living in this Type B world will be...