Buenos Aires Numero 1

Its my fifth day in Buenos Aires now and I really begin to get used to this huge city. And when I say huge, not like Paris or Berlin, Buenos Aires is like a big big city, isolated from everything. The district Im living in is called "Belgrano" and is one of the "good" ones. In Germamy you would maybe consider it as a mix of really rich people and people who have money but arent on the top of society.

My flight was at night so I could mostly sleep, even though I woke up every two hours. Once Ive even watched a film: "Silver Linings" which I liked a lot but there where much more films in the airplane but I was too tired to watch them. I was pretty lucky not having somebody sitting next to me so I could just relax. I imagined the 13 hour during flight mich more exhausting but when I finally arrived on the airport I wasnt tired at all.
There, my hostfamily including Martina, welcomed me and my adventure in this far country had began.

Firstly, we drove through the "villas", really poor dirstricts, till we arrived in the microcentre with the famous "Obelisco" right in the middle of Buenos Aires. The sun shined and everything was green and I was so happy after the harsh and really long winter in Germany. The building of the centre of Buenos Aires remembered me  on the architecture In France and the mother, Rossana, explained, that the "porteños", so the inhabitants of Buenos Aires, have all european ancestors and that was the reason for its grand influence of european culture and architecture.

A main difference I recognized was the height of the buildings: everything was so huge and I felt a bit like I was in New York or something.

After driving a bit around, I visited the oldest cafe"Cafe Tortoni" of the city, which was founded in 1858, and is just near the "Avenida de Julio" and I drunk a tasty "Cafe con leche".

Then, we drove to the famous district "La Boca", to watch a volley game of the sister of Martu, but I will tell you more about La Boca the next time because Im going to do an excursion tomrrow with the other germans.

On sunday, we visited the aunt and her family in there weekend house which is outside of the dirstricts.
There I had my first argentinian barbecue, but Im vegetarian so they made paprika with eggs and aubergines for me. I felt very happy they care so much for me even though I now meat is so important here.

I passed three days at school now and I really like it there and the good thing is that its just next to Martus flat.
The classes consist of about 15 students, cause its a private school, and everybody has to wear uniforms(exept of the germans). In the breaks I hang around with the friends of Martu who are really nice and sometimes we go home to one of them to just chill out or eat something.
Today I had my first spanish class which is only for the germans and a german girl is teaching us. She divided us into three groups because not evrybody is the same in spanish. Luckily I got into the "best" gropu but that means too that our homeworks are much more diffucuilt.

The flat Im living is is small but cute and really comfortable and all the people here have a woman who is cooking and washing and stuff like that, the whole day.

                                                         (Room of Martu and me)
Now another day is almost finished (although we eat at 10 in the evening) and Im looking forward to tomorrow and my trip to La Boca.

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