last night after a long long day of classes i told all three people i know to come over and i baked a peach apple pie and chocolate banana cake. but at ten thirty no one i had invited had showed up and it was just one of those awkward nights where you sit around talking in english to lots of international students about boring things like why they are in argentina so i decided to leave and go to a concert even though it was technically my party. so i left and went to this really funny really fun surfpunk show with some argentine bands and also this guy called daddy-o of los straightjackets (i know you guys know all about surfpunk and know who he is of course). he wears a mexican wrestling mask and speaks really really fast made up spanish that no one can understand while brazilian surf videos and movies from the 50's play in the background. so it was totally worth it but 10 minutes after i left to go to the concert i got a million texts saying that all of these people kept showing up saying they were my friends and i wasn't there. but 3 hours later i came home and they had all just decided to stay and eat dessert even though i wasn't there so we got to have a party anyway. and then totally coincidentally my friend sean had been invited to a party in the basement of an apartment building on azcuenaga 1064. my building! so at 3:30 am we ventured downstairs and found a door with ricky martin blasting out of it and after ringing the bell for a half hour finally got inside and it turns out it was a bachelor party! not with strippers or anything but i did see the groom making out with some girl in the kitchen. so that part was not so great but then i forgot about it and we just danced all night to bad/great latin music with porteños who didn't even care that some weird kids had just knocked on the door and come joined their party. then at 4:30am some old people came in and said hi to everyone and then went into another room and it turns out that this guy who's house it was lives with his parents. who were in the other room sleeping but no one turned the music off or anything and we all kept dancing until 5:30. so a very argentine night. and i met some vecinos. also i found out about this organic garden in the city that is open to anyone to come work and hang out at! they have concerts and movies and stuff too but mostly it would just be soo great to get to be around plants and people into organic gardens and eating fresh food! i can't wait to go. except it's really a shitty situation and they've been there for 6 years or something but don't actually own the land and now the government wants it for a parking lot or road or something so they have to camp out in tents every night and fight a lot to not have it taken away. but it's still really exciting that it exists. now i'm gonna go do some reading and have dinner with some friends at a vegetarian restaurant in san telmo. i'm really really happy being in buenos aires right now.