Back to reality

Well, yet another week gone by in Buenos Aires - the city of Good Airs (?)

This past weekend CIEE (my program) took us on a trip to Jujuy! Jujuy is the northwestern-most province in Argentina, nestled in between Bolivia and Chile. It was such a great weekend, and the best part - it was all paid for by our program!

We started off our trip by getting to the airport at 4am on Thursday morning! A few hours later we were on a plane headed to Salta, the province just south of Jujuy. From Salta, we boarded omnibuses to our hostel! We were all so tired that most of us slept the whole way! Thursday was a relaxing day for us, we didn't have anything planned except for a quick introduction to what we would be doing the next few days! Lunch and dinner were provided and the rest of the time we were free to relax and catch up on sleep!

Friday, we took a short trip to some ruins of the indigenous people that once lived in Jujuy. Our tour guide, Pablo (who LOVED to hear himself talk) provided us with plenty of information!

After that, we headed to a town, where the vendors sold everything! Most famously, anything made from alpaca/llama wool! We were also able to see a cemetery which was pretty interesting! Dinner that night, we were able to choose a place in the town that we wanted to go to; Bot, Sam, and I choose a pretty fancy restaurant with DELICIOUS bread and our main meal: LLAMA! It was absolutely delicious!

Mine happened to be wrapped in bacon! YUM

Saturday, we again got on our buses and headed up into the mountains! We stopped at the top of one to offer sacrifices for safe travel! We were 4,170 meters above sea level - pretty crazy!

4,170 meters above sea level

Sam, Bot and I

Then, we were onto the SALT FLATS! This was incredible! As we were driving towards them, it looked like snow, but when we finally got outta the buses and onto the flats, it was crazy! We were standing on top of SO much salt! Our whole group had fun taking pictures and being silly!

So much SALT

TEBOWing

Finally, Saturday night we headed to a Peña - a restaurant/bar where we got to enjoy live folklore music! It was so great! The band was fun and we had fun dancing the night away. STORY OF THE WEEKEND - after the band had been playing for a while, still none of us had gotten up to dance, a very drunk older man came onto the dance floor and starting busting some moves. Slowly, he started making his way over to all of us Americans, keeping his eyes on some of the blondes in our group. Unfortunately, he found me, grabbed my hands and pulled me onto the dance floor. I was terrified as he started pulling me closer and closer! Eventually, my coordinator from CIEE had to step in and tell the man to leave me alone! The rest of the night was so much fun!

Sunday, we took a hike through some of the mountains, which were incredible! The views were spectacular!! I feel so have blessed to go on this trip! It truly was incredible! I couldn't help but look at all the views and mountains and wonder how anyone could not think that a great Artist created all of this! God is good!!

Now my friends, it's back to reality! A full week of classes! Bot's parents come on Thursday and we head to Iguazu Falls for a night! That'll probably be our last exciting trip for our remaining time here. Believe it or not, I have 2 months until I'm home! 

Chau chicos

-C

My address here in BsAs

Christa Coners
CIEE Program - FLACSO
Ayacucho 555
(1026) Ciudad de Buenos Aires
ARGENTINA