¿En Serio?

So, I had class at 8:30am this morning, as I do every Friday morning. Only today's class was a little bit off compared to others.

First of all, class started with a survey. One of our professors (we have 5) handed out these surveys for us to complete. Our first concern was "should we really fill these out? we don't even really go here." lol. But we decided to just fill them out anyway. That's where the humor started. We all take surveys at in our college classes at the end every semester but I can guarantee it has never been as ridiculous as the one I took today. Here are a few examples of the RIDICULOUS stuff they had the nerve to ask. Of course it was in spanish, but I wrote them out in English.

1.) On a scale of 1-10 how happy are you with your life? (1 being not happy, 10 being very happy)

{If I hated my life, I'd be sad they reminded me of it. lol}

2.) Who is God to you? [the question itself isn't horrible but some of the choices were] {I only typed up the choices I thought were funniest}

a. my friend

b. the reason for all of the evil in the world

c. some guy who never existed

3. Who are people you'd prefer not to have as neighbors? {again I only included the most interesting choices}

a. illegal immigrants

b. people who are crazy

c. people with AIDS

d. immigrants from Africa (I swear this was a choice!!)

On top of this, there were an immense amount of questions about religion on the survey which, in my opinion, is just ridiculous. My friend Lauryn and I were laughing about how this survey was so severely politically incorrect. And the craziest thing about it is that the students taking the survey didn't look at it as ridiculous at all. It's really an eye opener to see this occur in a "professional" environment.

The other thing that made this class funny was the construction going on. Our building is currently being worked on and it seems to only get worked on during our class times. Our teacher had the nerve to try to teach over the noise which happened to be right under our classroom. So, we waited for about 10 minutes and we switched classrooms to a very mildew smelling room. My professor made me laugh because as soon as he sat down, he continued where he left off without warning. It was hilarious.

That was my class today and I thought it was definitely something to write about.

My First Opera Experience

I got to experience my first opera yesterday and it was absolutely amazing (not to mention it was free). I went to see Madama Butterfly in this really nice theatre.

Madama Butterfly is about a soldier from the US buying a house in Japan. With the house comes servants and a geisha wife named Butterfly. The marriage is not supported by anybody who is related to Butterfly, including the souls of her ancestors (yea, I know, weird). So, the soldier marries Butterfly anyway and a little while later has to return to the US. He is gone for three years and in that time Butterfly gave birth to his child and never told him. She just waits for his return. Upon his return, Butterfly finds that he has an American wife so she kills herself before he can do anything about it.

It was super long, dramatic and too drawn out, but I really enjoyed myself. haha. It was a great experience. It was in Italian so they had the spanish subtitles for us to read and it was really cool. Lucky me and this free stuff!

Life has its ups and downs

SO sooooo sooooo sorry, I've been super busy/lazy and haven't written in such a long time, but no worries because I am going to update you about my life right now!

So, I'll start with the reason I stopped blogging in

the first place. All of my drive for excitement in life plummeted the day I was robbed at gunpoint. It was a little less than a month ago, May 8th. Two girlfriends and I were headed to a very touristy part of Buenos Aires. But, in order to get there, you have to go through a really rough neighborhood (talkin North Philly Badlands/Beirut tough). Needless to say, we never got to the touristy part. Three boys ran up on us and pointed a gun at us for all of our things. After having a gun stuck in my stomach, I kinda forgot to care about anything I guess. BUT, I'm back! lol. Those idiots only got 5 American dollars from me anyway. Stupid fools.

Less than a week later, on May 14th, I went to see a play about some revolutionary lady named Juana. It was decent and it had lots of fighting (which I LOVE) and

it kept me entertained.

Then, the day after, the 15th, I went to my first professional futbol (soccer) game and I had the time of my life. I went with 3 guys and 2 other girls and we were so loud and excited. I jumped and chanted with the crowd. It was an amazing experience because the crowd was not quiet the entire time. They played music and chanted and set off mini fireworks and flares. The spirit was just what I needed to fall back in love with Argentina.

My friend Lauryn celebrated her 21st birthday on the 19th of May which was a Wednesday but we all went out to a Brazilian restaurant/club with her and had an AMAZING night. I think I got in around 4am. The food was yummy, and the band was GORGEOUS. I think I wanna travel to Brazil some day because they are beautiful people those Brazilians. lol.

Hmmmm, what else? OH DUH!! Argentina celebrated their bicentennial from the 2oth until the 25th. And it was GREAT! There were about 5 parades. Tons of stands, entirely too many people, huge crowds, free stuff, face paintings, fireworks, and so much more. We went to the opening of the world renown Teatro Colon. Ugh, it was just so great to be able to experience such a historic moment with the Argentine people. We watched futbol (Argentina vs Canada) on the big screens they had set up all over the city and celebrated right in the middle of the crowd. It was a great experience. SOOOOOOO thankful! And I got my face painted!

I've also had a ridiculous amount of midterms that have been kicking my ass, but I'm living through them. Plus we get retakes here. What a college right? Another sign that I am back to my normal self is that, while heading to one of my midterms, my friend and I got off at the wrong stop, began walking, and then turned around and got back on the subte. It was absolutely hilarious and I laughed for like 10 minutes (yes, that loud laugh that I know you all love so much).

Thursday the 27th of May I went to a play (for free) with my program for my theatre class and it was ABSOLUTELY HORRIBLE. I wanted to die the entire time I watched it. BUT, I survived. It was about a dance marathon but it was super boring and abstract and, well, just not for me.

This past Friday, 28th of May, I went to a bunch of art galleries for free. It's this thing they have here called Gallery Nights where the galleries are free the last Friday of each month. It was a good experience and I got lots of free mini pieces of art. yay me! and yay for free! lol

soooooo, there's your update. :D