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Sunday, June 6th, 2010

i am back in Alta Gracia. through couchsurfing i have met two friends, Diana in Santa Rosa de Calamuchita whom i visited twice, and Emy in Alta Gracia. i am now staying with Emy also for the second time. my plan was to leave here on wednesday night by train but Emy and her friends have almost convinced me to stay until next Sunday so we can go to a tango competition on Friday night and a birthday celebration of a friend of theirs on Saturday night. yesterday i had a very typical Argentina day. we made empanadas with a friends mom, and then went to a tango class. the profe is competing in a tango competition this friday in Cordoba and we might go.

on friday afternoon i went running the longest distance i have ever gone. i ran from Santa Rosa to Villa General Belgrano and back. it was a total of 16km. i was so sore after that i had to take a nap and take a later bus to leave Santa Rosa, i did not have the energy to leave right after lunch. but after my  nap when i did leave, Diana was so sweet, she told me she will be sending me a package with a few of my favorite things from Argentina and invited Al and i to stay with her when we come back to Argentina for our honeymoon. she told me i am always welcome to stay with her, there will always be a bed ready for me. she also invited me to come back for a few nights this week but i had to decline because i will be going to Rosario to couchsurf with another girl for a few nights after going to Buenos Aires for my last few nights. if i stay in Alta Gracia another week, i dont have time to back to Santa Rosa. i only have 2 weeks left! i cant believe that in a trip of 10 months i only have 2 weeks. it is so little. i have been enjoying buying new earrings and borrowing clothes from Emy because i am so tired of the same few shirts and pants i have worn the whole year. i bought an Argentina soccer jersey for me and one for a friend, and will be buying a Mundial shirt too in Cordoba this week. i have been drinking a lot of mate as well, i am thinking of buying a mate and hierba to bring back too. as well as spices for making empanadas because i cant buy exactly the same in the States.

i keep putting up new photo sets on flickr, so check there if you´d like.

 chau chau.

un beso,

Annie

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Alta Gracia

Wednesday, May 26th, 2010

i stayed in Santa Rosa de Calamuchita for 2 weeks even though when i arrived i thought i would spend a few days. last weekend the daughter of Diana, the woman i was staying with arrived and later her niece from Rosario. we spent the weekend traveling around the little towns including a town that is pedestrian only called la Cumbrecita, Villa General Belgrano, Villa Ciudad Parque. we went out for coffee and explored around. i left Santa Rosa yesterday afternoon and Diana asked me if i would be coming back after going to Cordoba. i told her i did not want to impose and stay too long with her couchsurfing, but she said she loves having me and wants me to visit again. i will have to see how my plans go but i would like to visit again, whether it is in this trip or with Al on our honeymoon in a few years. she invited us both to stay with her in a few years when we come back. i got off the bus and Emi, another girl from couchsurfing picked me up from the road (the buses here do not enter, they just drop you off on the highway) and we drove around Alta Gracia a little then went back to her apartment. it is little, she lives alone but it is very nice. we went out for drinks last night with friends of hers. it is difficult now because the computers here do not have headsets so i cannot call Al until next week. tonight we are going to her spinning class at the gym and tomorrow Emi and i will go to Cordoba together in the afternoon. tonight also i bought a new bodega torrontes to try out with some cheese and baguette. this afternoon Emi and i explored Alta Gracia, it is the childhood home of Che Guevara, the revolutionary from Argentina that was active in the Cuban revolution and good friend of Fidel Castro. many Argentines idolize Che Guevara. there is a museum in his home that we did not go in but visited from the outside. there was a plaque that explained that in 2006 Chavez and Castro visited the museum. yesterday was the bicentinario de la patria (200 year anniversary of Argentina´s first own government) and we went to the parade and there was a ceremony in which doves were released to symbolize peace and freedom. i ate locro which is a typical Argentina stew and empanadas for lunch and dinner too. if you talk to Al tell him i love him.

that is all i can think of for now.

chao y besos,

Annie

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santa rosa de calamuchita

Saturday, May 15th, 2010
wow a lot has happened since we left mendoza. more than a week ago we took a night bus from mendoza to cordoba, arrived in the morning, walked many blocks looking for a hostal with our heavy packpacks, found one ... [Continue reading this entry]

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