How to have duende: Lluvia, lluvia, dejame en paz

I haven't updated my blog in a hot second....so here I go! Sorry about the delay, but I'm a sloth like person with needs like naps and eating out. It was pretty yucky last week, so my activities were limited. Here are the big exciting things that I have done so far:

Fuerza Bruta
Museos de Bellas Artes Nacionales (Fine Art Museum)
A lovely day trip to the delta Tigre
Teatro Ciego Gourmet (Blind Theater + food)
Barrio Chino with some Argentines

Fuerza Bruta is a performance group down here who had the most amazing art/ performance installation. Their show is really interactive and I left wet and covered in glitter. It obviously was amazing.... Here is a video that does absolutely zero justice to how amazing it was. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZpbqFbW5GY

It has been a nasty past couple of weeks here with some serious cold, wet rain. As a result we had a little day at the local, free museums. It was cool to see some of their work and some more famous work, as well. The next day we took a trip to Congress, which was just like every other congress building in the world really. I learned about laws and then contracted some form of death plague from our 30 minute march in the freezing rain. Boo hiss.

It finally morphed into the beautiful weather I know and love down here and last Friday we went to Tigre. Tigre is a little down in the delta of the Rio de Plata. The town doesn't use cars, instead everyone gets around in little boats and live in great little houses and live perfect lives. Their school buses are boats. How amazing is that? We had a lovely day outside (I mainly napped...) and got our sunshine on. It was so nice to be outside when it was pretty after a couple weeks of nasty.

Saturday night we went to Teatro Ciego Gourmet, which is literally a blind theater with dinner included. I wasn't in love with not eating my food, so I was pretty hungry after it. Turns out I really prefer to see my food, which might mean I'm a picky eater. The room was pitch black and we were served my people who maybe were blind or maybe saw everyone being embarrassing in what they thought was darkness with night goggles. We are still unsure.

Sunday me and some of the girls went to Chinatown again with some of our new found Argentine(ish) friends that we met at the pub crawl. We just kind of walked around and goofed off. I bought my coveted peanut butter and I'm probably going back soon for siracha. Afterwards we went to this restaurant called Burger Joint which has the best burger I've ever had. It is also super cheap, which is fabulous! I realize I'm sort of rambley... but I've been chugging coffee so forgive me. Here is your weekly pic-fix. You can also go on facebook and search for UGA en Buenos Aires to see pictures that the program coordinators take of us during excursions!