to falling in like on a warm summer's night and to my young and wild days, may they not be over yet.

Cochabamba La Mejor

I traveled 50 hours each way by bus to visit the family of my grandmother's sister for Easter in Cochabamba. We drove through the jungle of Bolivia, one of the most gorgeous sights I've ever experienced.

I bought artesanias, ate street food, made a chocolate cake, found out the "spaghetti and meatballs" they eat in Bolivia is spaghetti with roasted boned chicken with tomato sauce, gorged myself on leftover chocolate buttercream and ganache, listened to Abba practically nonstop and still have "Dancing Queen" in my head, played a ton of Uno, tried a fermented grape drink (not wine) called guarapo that tasted like juice, drank white wine with freshly blended ice-cold peach juice, and hung out with my cousins.

I am so blessed.

Project 365, Day 12

Day: Had my oral exam today! I did pretty well and got a 90% on it, and a 92.5% on the written part that was on Wednesday. Afterward some friends and I ate and talked at a local supermarket, where I discovered that Oreo Alfajores exist:

As you can imagine, it was super delicious.

Picture: Of my new black and no longer red hair~

Project 365, Day 11

Day: Yesterday was relaxing. It was a national holiday in Argentina, so no one worked and I didn't have school. In the afternoon, I went to an ice cream store, Persicco, with a bunch of friends to celebrate a birthday. The ice cream was so delicious. I shared with a friend and we got strawberry cream, passion fruit (have I mentioned this is the best flavor of any fruit, ever?), Swiss chocolate, and dulce de leche con brownie. The dulce de leche ice cream was SO good! It had huge chunks of brownies and pecans. Afterward, I went to a friend's house to dye her hair red, then returned to my apartment, ate, then fell asleep writing this post with my laptop on my stomach. haha.

Picture: I went to a dance club Wednesday night because it was Ladies Night and it was free and that's not something you just pass up, and when I got back my feet looked like this-

So much fun.

Chao!

xo amanda

Project 365, Day 10

Day: Final went well today! It was extremely long, but I was done in about two hours, so that was cool. Afterward, I went to a diner-like restaurant called Forrest Gump, then to COTO again to buy some stuff I needed... like hair dye... because I realized from this picture that I had red hair, which I realized because the guy in front of me has red hair. And so we were basically hair twins. And I don't know how I feel about that.

Picture: Stuff from COTO: a glass soda bottle, orange soda because it was the cheapest, dye, a tortilla on the bottom left, a flan in the bottom middle, and some yerba mate called amanda that at $0.90 I just had to get. I mean, come on.

(Tortillas- pronounced tor/tee/jas- are like a potato omelet- the inside had thinly sliced potatoes -like scalloped potatoes- mixed with cheese, crushed red pepper, salt, and strings of onion, and in a mixture of eggs and flour that I'm guessing was pan-fried. It was so good. Oh, and the $0.50 flan was pretty disgusting and eggy.)

You guys. You guys. This exists:

 ... and I can't wait to put it in my soda bottle collection back home. Passion fruit is basically the best flavor of any fruit out there.

xo amanda

Project 365, Day 8

Day: (yesterday was crazy, so here's the post that should've been!) Here's what happened- After school, I took the subway downtown to transfer some money (Oh- if you ever happen to be in a foreign country, use Xoom! It has a way better transfer rate and it's super easy; you will save so much money. For example, lots of people here transferred US dollars to Argentine pesos for 5 pesos to the dollar, while Xoom's exchange rate is 7 pesos to the dollar. Crazy), then headed home quickly to change and eat, and then go to La Bomba de Tiempo. This is a drum show held every Monday night from 8-10 p.m. It was so much fun! After the show, we went to a club where they played more music similar to what we heard played live at the concert.

Picture: because i couldn't pick just one~

^^the required closed-eye shot^^

There you have it! Perfect night full of music and dancing. I'm going to miss this when I'm back in the States where there is literally nothing to do except to make a midnight Kroger run to redbox a movie and get popcorn and ice cream. Which I mean, don't get me wrong, that's a pretty awesome time too.

Chao!

xo amanda

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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