apartment!...

so i'm all moved in. i stayed up all night on friday and painted my room blue and i love it. you can see the before and after pictures. we're still looking for a 4th roommate. the colombians were back with plans to all there live in the tiny back room but the other girls thought that would be too much so now we're back to looking for someone else. i am a little disappointed because this means i won't be living with spanish speakers and also the apartment is so huge it feels really empty with only 4 people living in it. but maybe it will be less chaotic. ...

Classes start wednesday for me. 9am to 9pm. it's a lot. i'm taking 4 which are: sociology and anthropology of art, argentine art history, theory and practice in anthropology of religion in latin america, and anthropology, politics and economics of ethnicity. probably i'll drop one since each class is either 4 or 6 hours all at once and that is a lot of lecture in spanish. The filosophy and letters "campus" where I am is pretty special. It's a converted tobacco factory and is probably the most disorganized place ever with millions of conversed stringy haired kids running around all day handing out flyers for communist concerts, protests at the us embassy, miming workshops and a lot of other things that make me laugh at how stereotypically it is the facultad de filosofia y letras. by which i mean its fun being there but also impossible to ever know what's going on and today i was trying to check my e-mail in the computer lab and realized that i was actually in the middle of a class and had to get up and run out. and i got lost for 2 hours on the bus trying to get to campus so i have no idea how i will get there on time on wednesday. but i guess that's what being in a new city means. I surprisingly know a whole lot of people here and am finding lots of stuff to do. i went out for a drink with this guy i met at a bookstore and his good friend owns a printmaking workshop and he's going to introduce me and see if i can get a job or just help/hang out there. which would be phenomenal. and its still warm enough to eat breakfast on my balcony every morning and wear dresses and eat icecream. actually i'm here in Freddo's, my favorite icecream place, which is only 2 blocks from my apartment and has free wireless internet even if you don't buy an icecream (which obviously never happens)....ok, its been 2 hours and clearly these pictures are not loading. someday, sorrry.