Buenos Aires

Here I am! In Buenos Aires! Writing from a fancy apartment in Recoleta where I am staying with a friend.
The city is huge, and there is way too much to do, but I am having a blast and trying to split my time between touristy and non touristy activities.
Here are some of the things I have done:
Touristy
Visited important/pretty places like Teatro Colon and La Casa Rosada.
Taken a doubledecker tour bus around the city, using the provided microphones to learn a little history.
Been to Bellas Artes museum, the Eva Peron museum, a boat museum, a holocaust museum, and one more whose name I can never remember where there was an exhibit on HARRY POTTER.
Went to a tango show outside at the obelisk and a drum concert.
Less touristy
Ate the best hot pastrami sandwich of my life.
(FINALLY) went thrift store shopping (more on that later)
Used-book shopping.
Eating choripan. (sausage and fried egg sandwiches sold on the street).
Went walking around searching for Synagogues.
Shabat services on Friday night.

I hope everyone is keeping warm back in the states, dont feel too jealous of me, someimes it is 97 with humidity on top which in Buenos Aires is really pretty disgusting. Although for the most part the weather has been lovely for me.
Love and snuggles and pictures because I have no control over the format of these posts right now...

Esther

Iguazu Falls

Hello Hello!

I have just spent the last week in Misiones, at the Iguazu Falls. They are incredible!!!! I went two days to the Argentina side of the falls and I cannot go to Brasil or Paraguay, which are both right here, because of the visa costs for United States citizens. We charge EVERYBODY and so they charge us, so it goes. But I rented a bike and biked to the triple border and saw Paraguay, Brasil, and Argentina all at the same time!!! The climate and wildlife here is super different from anything I have ever seen, and so I also tried to bike for a while in the forest but its so touristy here that everything was still pretty developed. Still, I have seen monkeys, lizards, parrots, weird bugs, coatis (like an opossum) and a million new plants.

The youth hostel where I am staying is really nice. I have a room that I share with three other girls and we have airconditioning at night! And the bathrooms and kitchen are nice too. I am enjoying cooking on the outdoor stove, swimming in the pool, reading Harry Potter 7 in Spanish in the hammoks, and eating the mangos that are harvested every morning from our personal mango tree!!!! It is such a relaxing summer vacation.

Unfortunately my camera broke, so all the pictures I put here of the falls are REALLY crappy phone camera pictures. Hopefully a nice German girl I met at the falls who had a really nice camera and took a picture of me will remember to send me her photos.

It looks like I have found another farm to volunteer on in this area for around two weeks, so that I do not have to do the 21 hour bus ride back down south twice in one week. When I am there I will tell you how it is. But for now I have two more days booked at the hostel and I am enjoying meeting people from all around the world and practicing my Spanish!

Pictures (I just figured out the phone camera was dirty too, you have no idea how upset I am...)

Lots of love!
Esther

Off again!

I´m off again! I am leaving tomorrow at noon for the Iguazu Falls! It is a 21 hour bus ride, how crazy is that??? I am booked at a hostel for seven days and then, we shall see!
I should have internet there, so I will put up more pictures and news as soon as I can.
Also, most exciting thing ever--Flor had her baby, his name is Octavio, and he is the cutest!!!!

Un Abrazo,
Esther!

DON´T SEND ME MAIL

I should have written this post a month ago but NO MORE MAIL. Its not because I dont love it, I do. And thank you so much toeveryone who sent me letters! I have left the farm and I now have NO permanent address. Send me an email. Look for me on skype. Facebook. Whatever. But NO MORE MAIL.

Lots of Love,
Esther