Top 10 Reasons Why I Love Argentina!

10. I some how got lucky enough to get the best classmates in Argentina. They're helpful, funny, kind, just the right amount of crazy, and they make me love to go to school.
9. La Siesta! Just to have a few hours in the afternoon to relax or catch up on some sleep is perfect. (I will definitely be missing this when I go home to the states)
8. I have an older brother with autism and to see him laugh is the most rewarding thing in the world. He cannot talk, and I will never have a conversation with him but I love him and I can't even explain it.
7. My grandma is the perfect, wise, spanish speaking woman. She tells us that boys are nothing but a headache and she has quirky comments for everything.
6. I got to watch the 7th Harry Potter movie one day before everyone else in the United States. That may not be significant to everyone but it is for me. Anyone who knows anything knows that Harry Potter is important.
5. Boliches. Now that I am 18 I can go out to dance whenever I want. Which I am planning on doing quite often. In one year I can't go out to a club to dance so I am planning on taking advantage of every chance I get to go out.
4. My other exchange student friends. The other exchange students just automatically get you... they understand the language problems, they understand you when you wanna go home. It's like an unwritten rule that your best friends are the other exchange students.
3. My boyfriend. This maybe isn't a fair reason to love this country so much but it sure helps. I've never met someone so wonderful, and that's the way it should be if he is my boyfriend... but the point is, the people here are unlike any other. They're special and if you travel here you will meet someone who steals your heart. Maybe not a boyfriend or a girlfriend but a friend or a teacher or someone who just makes you happy.
2. The music! You just hear the music and you want to dance. It works wonders on the body even if you don't think you know how to dance.
1. The food. Dulce de Leche, Milanesa, Licuado, Empanadas... It's all so good. I don't know how Argentina does it but it's great. I will miss the food so much.


Fun Facts...
*I changed my family and now I am SO happy... it was best for me to change my family and now I feel so much better.
*It's really starting to get hot here and my albino skin is not going to be happy with the sun.
*My new host family is excellent. My host dad is a doctor and he is really 'capo'... or he just has something about him, this confidence, that is so bad-ass.
*I don't want to go home. Sorry Mom.
*My boyfriend's family is like family to me now too. I love them all. His uncle, cousins, grandparents.
*I'm missing my last season of high school swimming and I don't even care anymore. I loved swimming and it was the best part of high school, but this experience beats everything.
*Now I'm really thinking about it, and I'm not going home. Sorry Mom.

But in all seriousness, I think about everyone from home all the time and I know I couldn't be here without the help of you all. I love you and I miss you a lot. Un beso grande!