A Night At Ranqueles

Yesterday was full of activities and experiences! This photo is from last night´s boliche called Ranqueles. I went out dancing with Ago and her friends for the night. We got there around 12 and returned at 5! Then I woke up this morning at 12:15. But I didn´t have a problem staying awake because everything about the experience was new and interesting. There were tons of people at the boliche and we danced to cumbia music and met ¨chicos lindos.¨ It was another taste of Argentina, the nightlife here is hoppin´.



Earlier in the day, my family and I went to their cousin´s first birthday party. It was in a building with blow up games for kids and was pretty similar to our parties. But their sweets are much better than ours. They don´t have classic Tollhouse cookies but they have ¨maicenitas¨ which are the best things ever. They´re like little, moist cookies with dulce de leche in the middle. The other thing that was different was their piñatas. They don´t blindfold themselves and hit it until the candy falls, instead, all of the kids wait below the piñata for the candy to fall and an adult pulls a string and all of the sweets pour out.



After that, I met up with about thirty people from AFS to go bowling. There were volunteers, new students (me,) old students who have gone before, and students who have been in San Juan for four months. It was really fun to meet with everyone and learn about where they were from, etc. My team came in second at bowling by one point! Then I had to leave when they were going to get food because I needed to go get ready to go out with Ago.

So yesterday was really fun and I don´t want to come home in two weeks. One month is really short for an exchange but I definetly want to come back to Argentina and visit me family. I want to bring everyone here home with me!