The Patagonia

Right now I´m in a cyber café in Las Grutas in the Patagonia! We traveled for about thirteen hours here and we leave tomorrow to go to Puerto Piramides. I´m really excited to see the whales and penguins. We are by and the ocean and it´s beautiful. It´s also really cold and windy but nothing an Ohioan can´t stand! It was fun to see the Argentine country. Actually, it looks pretty similar to the American West. It is very dry and desserty with shrub-like plants. There are cows, sheep, and horses everywhere. We drove past a body of water that is one of the only places in the world where it is below sea level.

Las Grutas is more popular in the summer when you can swim so there are not a whole lot of people here but the town is cute. We´re staying in a little cabin that is so quant and perfect. Today we went out to the ocean and collected seashells and took lots of pictures. Then we bought a conk shell and starfish at this little stand by the ocean. Afterwards. we ate fish at a little ocean restaurant. Yesterday we had ¨paella¨which is like rice with ¨mariscos,¨I can´t remember the word for mariscos in English. There was a singer there who sang a song for me because I´m from the US and that´s the second time that´s happened. Then I won a little gift because I had the number that was called. My host mom says I have good luck...maybe it´s true! She says I´m going to become famous off of the books I write about Argentina. It would be cool if that really happened!

It´s weird because when someone asks me what a word is in English, or what we call something, it takes me forever to think of it. And sometimes when I write in my journal, I accidently switch into Spanish. Now I`m just waiting for my dreams to be in Spanish! So all is good here...I love spending time with my host family and seeing Argentina. I would love to come back here during the summer and definetly to visit my host family. We want to stay in touch when I leave and after and maybe they can come visit the United States. It´s amazing to know that I have a home to stay in if I ever need one in Argentina! Making friends around the world is awesome.