Spring has sprung!

so. many. sandwiches.

hanging in the park with jenny and milito

MATE

Junin has slightly larger architecture than los toldos...

Well spring is most definitely here in beautiful, sunny Argentina. I thought that maybe the season would be delayed like it was in the northern hemisphere, but here in the south it was right on time. I'm glad that my 20 days of winter are over for the year, it was getting pretty tiresome. The first day of spring is a pretty big deal here, and September 21st also happens to be the day of the student- so we have no school. In celebration we (Josefina and I) headed to Junin on Tuesday night, spent the night at friends' apartment and then went to the Junin lagoona on Wednesday. A day at the beach is not something new for me; my friends and I go down to Pioneer Park all the time in the summer in Kamloops. When we go we'll take blankets, music, snacks, etc. Here they do pretty much the same thing, except they forgot the blankets which sucked. We brought a TON of food; empenadas, tortas, sandwiches, savory biscuits, cookies, melanesas, more sandwichs, coke... and not a single fruit. At home, I'll cut up a watermelon and take it to the beach for a snack, here I don't think the kids even consider fruit food. So my stomach is currently in starch overload, to say the least. I would kill for Claire to make me a fruit smoothie. But all in all it was a fun day, there were a lot of people down at the lagoona and a live band. It was pretty chill, we mostly just sat around and drank mate and slept (which I totally needed because I didn't get much sleep the night before). In other news, today is my 3 week arrival anniversary! The weeks are definitely starting to pass faster, I can't believe next week it'll be a month...