Back to the Grind

Sorry for the lack of posting the past couple of weeks, they have been busy ones for me!!

Here is a quick catch up, I had a GREAT last week in Argentina, I got to do most of the things I wanted to do!! I was said to say goodbye to some people, and sorry to say I was happy to say goodbye to other people! My internship in Argentina was definitely an eye opening experience, and I'm so grateful I was able to have it!

When I got home I was so busy, I was only home for a few days, and in that time I visited all my immediate family in KY, and help in any way I could. My first day back in the states I got a phone call from one of the jobs I had applied to, asking if I could do a phone interview. Well long story short, I got the job!!! I was so excited because it is a campus job, so I am free weekends and nights!! So far I really like the job, it isn't really that exciting, I just answer phones all day, but the people I work with are a lot of fun!!

So it looked like everything was coming together for the perfect semester! I got out here and moved in, I'm all settled into my apartment and decided I didn't want to move EVER AGAIN!! So I'm staying in this apartment until I graduate or get married. I have good roommates, I really don't have anything complain about them, but of course it has only been a week :).

Well in my first week back I got a call from my bishop... can anyone guess what my calling is??? RELIEF SOCIETY PRESIDENT!!!! Really me?? I'm so not qualified for this calling! I was sort of expecting it because I was getting a lot of feelings about that calling, I was just hoping I was wrong, I have almost no free time as it is!! Because on top of that I have another job, all I do is lock the lounge door at curfew here in my apartment complex, not a big deal, but it does make me stay up later than normal! So this semester is for sure going to be the BUSIEST AND CRAZIEST semester of my life!! I ended up dropping a class because I just felt like I couldn't do it all. Because here are all the things on my plate these next 3 months: Relief Society President, 12 credits, 2 jobs, and I'm participating in the Biggest Winner.

For those of you who don't know what the biggest winner is, it is a competition here on campus that is just like biggest loser, so yeah I have that on top of everything else!! I think it will be a really fun semester, as long as I can keep myself sane!!

I had a great Easter weekend, and I hope everyone else did too!! And well I probably won't be posting very often this semester as I have no time!! If I do post it will be because I'm procrastinating doing my homework... like I'm doing right now!!

TANGO!!!

Ok so the first day of my last week here in Argentina was FANTASTIC!!! I went to caminito in La Boca here in Argentina, it is supposedly the oldest area of Argentina. I have wanted to go for a long time, but just never had the chance! Well today the sister missionaries got permission to go to caminito with me, so we went for their p-day!! It was so much more fun than I ever expected!! I wish I had gone early so I would have time to go more before going home!! There you can take pictures with Tango dancers, and there are a bunch of people just dancing tango, a lot of the restaurants have tango dancers and everything, it is really cool!!

Well I of course wanted a picture pretending I knew how to dance tango, it was a lot of fun, but really intense... pretty much full body contact in that dance!! I was a little uncomfortable!! Well after that we walked around and took a lot of pictures. My camera broke I'm not sure what happened, but now it won't turn on, it says there is a lens error!! I'm hoping it is just being tempermental, and will work tomorrow!!

Well we decided to get something to eat, and choose one of the restaurants that had tango shows. Well while we were eating I realized they would pick people out of the crowd randomly to dance tango... I thought it looked fun, but not for me!! Well we had finished eating and were waiting for the ticket, all of a sudden the guy came up and asked one of us to dance, or a picture or something! The hermanas were like oh well we can't!! So he looked at me and I said, well my camera broke so I can't take a picture, and he said well that can't stop you from dancing!! Well I didn't have much choice! So I got up and danced a song with him, it was really funny because I told him I couldn't dance, and he said he would teach me!! I was pretty embarrased because I have NO coordination!! But it was really fun!! I think I want to learn how to dance the tango now!! I'm addicted, all I have to do is find myself a really cute dance partner ;).

After all that excitement I went mission clothes shopping with Nico!! He leaves in a month!! I can't believe how fast time is passing!! Well I hope the rest of my week here in Argentina goes just as well as today went!!

Below are a few pics from caminito!!

LAST WEEK!!!!

Wow I am getting ready to start my very last week in Argentina!! Yesterday I had my last day of volunteering, and so this next week I will be spending it doing and seeing and buying all the things I have wanted to do, see, and buy my whole time here!! I thought I would be sad to leave Argentina, but I am actually really excited to be heading home! I ready to get back to my life back home, I'm ready to go back to school... I can see the end... I'm ready to just finish!!

So yesterday I went and got a massage! I was pretty excited, massages here are so cheap, one hour is 100 pesos... which is like 25 dollars!! So I don't usually like to talk while getting a massage, I like to relax, well my masseuse started asking me questions about why I speak Spanish so well and stuff like that. Well I told her I was a missionary in Argentina for a year and a half and that is how I learned Spanish, well then she wanted to know more about my church. Turns out I basically taught her the first lesson, while I was getting a massage!! I think that tops my weirdest place to teach a discussion! She said she wanted to know more, I didn't have any pass along cards, so I just wrote down the mormon.org website and left it for her! Maybe she will look into it, who knows!!

Well I'm excited to enjoy my last week to the maximum, then come home!! Hopefully I will be able to see and do everything I want to see and do in my last week!!