All I want is...

It's those home-cravings you start to get two weeks into a trip, especially when you can't have them so easily...

Sometimes I'll be sitting at dinner with my hosts, and all I will want is a salad. All I want is ketchup with my potatoes. All I want is a big glass of milk. All I want is for the TV to be off during dinner. And all I want is is TO SPEAK ENGLISH.

But most of all, I think all I want is my clarinet. I've been hearing some awesome songs that feature the clarinet and I wince as my heart is stabbed deeper and deeper by the blade of longing. To be quite frank, I never imagined that I would miss my clarinet so much - normally I'm fine with not practicing. Perhaps it is as that axiom goes - you don't know what you have until it's gone. Well... she's gone now, and I can't have her. We'll see what I can conjure up as the semester starts, if there is a band and the possibility to rent an instrument.

I begin my third week here in Buenos Aires (I cannot believe it is already the third week!) I reflect on what I have already done and what I have yet to do. So much to do and as the sand of time trickles away it is astonishing to see how quickly it can amass and before you know it half a month is gone.

You know how when everyone goes to London, they MUST absolutely no question about it get a photo with one of these guys ?

I have done the same thing; except that it was in Buenos Aires, at La Casa Rosada, with two of them, they got to smile, and were extremely friendly. 

(dictionary.com)

friend•ly: [frend-lee] adjective 

1.

characteristic of or befitting a friend;  showing friendship: afriendly greeting.

2.

like a friend;  kind; helpful: a little friendly advice.

3.

favorably disposed; inclined to approve, help, or support: afriendly bank.

4.

not hostile or at variance; amicable: a friendly warship;friendly natives.

5.

Computers . user-friendly.

6. WHEN ARGENTINE MEN LOOK AT YOU A LONG TIME AND SEEM LIKE THEY HAVE SOMETHING ON THE TIP OF THEIR TONGUE WHEN ALL YOU DO IS ASK THEM WHERE YOU BUY TICKETS FOR A TOUR OF THE "WHITE HOUSE" OF ARGENTINA

EXAMPLE: Dear Sir, I would have been fine with a point of the finger, thank you. Using your words helps too. But, I appreciate you being so friendly... .

Photo Courtesy of the lovely lady at the center of the photo

(Mr. Friendly is the one on the left)

Now that I can check that off my bucket-list, I can go to London to do the same.

Except that I'm trying to go elsewhere at the moment... which brings me to my "To Do List".

To Do

1. Get my camera fixed.

2. Get my student visa so I can leave the country...

3. Travel to Ecuador during Spring Break

4. Plan a trip to Bariloche or Patagonia for Easter or other Feriado Weekend

5. Plan a trip to Mendoza

6. Go to the beach in Uruguay

7. Give up alfajores and Billiken and Mogul gummies for el Cuaresma (Lent)

8. Join a gym

9. Schedule all my classes as planned (<1% chance) otherwise...

...FIVE YEARS TO GRADUATE! (Damn Seal in front of the library... week two freshman year...)

10. Listen to the Pens in the Stanley Cup Finals

It is all a matter of time. 

All I want right now is ice cream. And an alfajore. And some empanadas. And maybe some mate.

Angela