This photo has nothing to do with this week but just for the fun of it, it´s a photo from Bariloche. There are chocolate stores everywhere there and this is one of them.

Now for this week.
The community service at the girl´s orphanage was interesting, but a bit unorganized. We just sort of sat around and played games with the kids. They were obsessed with our cameras and they all wanted to borrow them. I had a lot of deleting to do when I got home. It was the girl´s vacation too so there was no leader there organizing them. The actually building was pretty nice but their bedrooms look like what you imagine an orphanage to look like. It´s heartbreaking to know they have no family. Some of them would just walk up to you and hug you forever. That was only for two days though and now I only have three or four days left.

The other night we made ¨sopaipillas¨which are these delicious funnel-cake like flat doughnuts. Basically it´s fried dough with sugar on top...what could be better? I wrote down the recipe so all I´ll have to do is convert the kilos and make them at home! Also I´m going to make empanadas because they´re really common here.

Yesterday three other AFSers and I planned on going to a tango museum. I was really excited to learn about the tango and visit a museum in San Juan but it didn´t exist. I guess the lady at the tourist center was wrong. So we went shopping instead as siesta was just finishing. We had ice cream and then I bought a few things. We were with a girl who is on a year-long program and has been here for four months. It was interesting to talk to her about her experiences in school and other things she knows. She said it took her about one month to really get a hold of the language and then it just came easily. Great, so I´m leaving right as I´m getting good! But I have improved a lot.

Then after that I went with Ago to hang out with some of her friends. We went to a movie and then had pizza at a friend´s house. Afterwards, we all walked to a gas station to hang out. It´s different the way teens hang out here. Tonight I think I might go out to a boliche again with Ago, we´ll see. Sometimes I´m so used to living here with this family that I forgot what all I´ve experienced. It´s like I´ve lived here forever and different things aren´t so different anymore. I think that when I come home and start telling everyone about my experiences (although this blog is pretty explanatory,) I will realize how much I´ve really done.

See everyone soon!