Mi cerebro pobre

Mi cerebro pobre... my poor brain. Studying here has been a 24-hour a day job, which is great, but at times exhausting. We all took our placement exams yesterday and started classes today, and just like I thought I was going to be I placed into Intermediate II. Class was great today- I loove my profesora and she is really great at making the 5 hour class more fun than it is work. 5 hours a day, for 5 days a week for the first two months is really going to be a lot of work though, especially with homework todos los noches.. ay carumba. Luckily it drops down to 3 hours a day for the last two, which will be perfect. It's been a little hard adjusting to the accent of the people here-- in words where I'm used to pronouncing "ll" (which sounds like a y), like in pollo, the people say "sh". I'll be used to it soon enough but for now it's definitely taking some adjusting to.

I met my host sister two days ago, her name is Mercedes and she's super cute! She's always on the go-- por ejemplo she's going to Europe for two weeks this Thursday.. must be nice! Her leaving has given me the opportunity though to help out Silvia with her jewelry catalog; today we sat side by side editing her descriptions and fine-tuning details (translating from Spanish to English) for about 3 hours. By the end our eyes were fried and we were pretty delusional... it was so fun getting to know her better though! We talked about religion, her difficulties with quitting smoking, and a bunch of other topics.. I was surprised and grateful for that evening well spent. It was great staying home tonight too because I've been out for the past three- I definitely needed some downtime. Last night we tried to go to an outdoor event called La Bomba en la Konex- but we couldn't find it! It was pretty bazaar because even when we asked for directions people for the most part had no idea what we were talking about.. so instead four of us girls found our way back to Plaza Cerrano for some drinks and pasta. The night ended with about 15 of us in a bar laughing too hard and spending too much.. but hey, I'll cheers to that.

I have to get up at 6:30 tomorrow morning so I can go across B.A. to start the Visa process.... woof.