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1. love my boots my parents gave me

2. freeway in buenos aires

3. when i tried out this hairstyle by Taza and still had my nose piercing

4. a delicious cone shaped chocolate covered alfajor with tons of dulce de leche

5. you guys, macarons in a McDonald's. (!!!)

6. this place is legit

7. we went to an old opera house, el Teatro Colon. I was in love with the dreamy ceiling

8. all the gold plating is actual gold; that place was gorgeous

9. arrived safely to the countryside after 3 hours of stumbling from one form of public transportation to another. also: finally learning how to style my short hair

10. friends are starting to ride

11. La Martina was the name of the ranch

12. the place was so beautiful

13. so many dogs there! there were lots of border collies too- made me miss mine

14. there were old beautiful houses all over the family-owned property

15. time passed so quickly in this haven from the city

16. chilled with dogs for the better part of the afternoon

17. this was my favorite house! i kept feeling like cinderella was going to walk out at any given moment

18. flowers everywhere

19. i kept asking myself if this was real life

20. hanging out by the pool

21. some of the landscape reminded me exactly of virginia

22. also we climbed trees

23. taking a break from galloping

24. having a tea of cold coke and scones after riding

25. hanging out by the highway waiting for the bus

Project 365, Day 1

I decided to begin taking pictures of myself everyday and saying what I did that day for the next year or so. I figure I will most likely put it at some value when I'm older and wonder what in the world did I do in my best years.

So without further ado-

Day: So, today I left for the University of Belgrano (where I take my Spanish classes) at 9:30 a.m., took fifteen-ish minutes to walk there, then talked to classmates before it began at 10:00 a.m. I had two breaks, one at 11:30 a.m. for 15 minutes, and a 30 minute one at 1:30 p.m. Once the Spanish class ended at 3:00 p.m., I walked over to the ISA office (the program I am studying abroad with), and they gave us some info on what we need to do to apply for our Visa on Wednesday (I have to be there at 6:20 a.m. that day!). 

Afterward, I ran to a shop where I got my entire passport photocopied (cost me about 90 cents), and finally went to COTO, one of Buenos Aires' biggest grocery stores that happens to also have miscellaneous items. It's basically Argentinian Wal-Mart. 

At COTO, I bought 6 empanadas (pastry pockets filled with delicious savory things): Chicken, Beef, Ham and Cheese, and Carne Dulce (sweet meat). I also got some on-sale dulce de leche and the Chocolate Rice Pudding below in the picture.

Picture: First- my nose! Yes, I got it pierced! Haha (Mami if you're reading don't worry! I'm not quickly turning into a bad rebellious child while overseas in a foreign country!) I've always wondered what it'd be like to have my nose pierced... and I don't love it. Will most likely take it out soon. Don't regret doing it because it was an experience, (a painful one at that) and I'm glad I did... but no.

Oh, and the rice pudding was all gone by the time I took this picture. It was super good- tasted like thicker, sweeter chocolate milk with rice floating in it. (And thank you to Mami for my necklace! I love it!