lost..what happened and where we went

ok i'm trying to do this in recall form..which is very hard to do after 2 full days of BA life. yesterday was simple for the most part..we just got up and went to school, kasey, me and the 2 girls upstairs from our program. Kasey and I had our usual lunch in pelli bar next to our school where we met manuel y miguel. We also met a nice argentine boy who likened himself to a country boy as he was explaining he was from a small town in BA...a strange concept to me since BA is a city and they're are tons of small towns within it! He told us he was working on making some videos and working on his english... nice guy..Class was just another learning session about the slums of south buenos aires. We had to read a regular argentine article which is pretty hard to interpret. Towards the end of class we started hearing a strange squawking and turns out it was just a funny sounding bird somewhere outside. After class my friend adam and I got on bus 92 thinking it was taking us home..wrong. I thought we were in the same building as we did tango but that wasnt correct so we got on the IDA route.. which is going.. and not the vuelta route.. returning and make no mistake. they are NOT the same by any means. After about 4 mins we realized this, started chatting in english about where we were and then a nice woman helped us on the bus.. in english which is very uncommon. So..we take a seat on the bench as to keep ourselves out of the obvious lost tourist category and put my knowledge of the guite to use. we were going to try and find a bus that took us back to where we wanted to go...then we decided to hop on the subte..well we walked the wrong way on the one road and then were too fed up to work any more on getting home that we just split a cab. its funny because you can be "lost" in your terms but theres always a radio cab driver that knows how to take you anywhere you want to go so you're never REALLY lost. Once home, i jumped in my long awaiting bed for some much needed rest. the head cold i've had since monday is taking a toll on me! a nice 3 hour nap did me well since we were plannin on going out last night. We had a nice dinner of chicken and rice and peaches for dessert. Afterwards i caught up on some skype convos and kasey took a nap too. Around 12 we got our plans together and headed to palermo to meet our friends at Post Street Bar. I had written out some directions from the original bar..sugar to the dance club..LOST but since the location of the first meeting changed, my previous directions were slightly off. Good thing i have a massive map of the city and figured out we were really only 1 block off course. ANyways, we had a really cute old man named JUGO drive us to the place and we talked about his dog PANCHA because he had a picture of her up in the front of his car.. he was so sweet. back to the night, we hung out for a while til about 1 30 at the bar and then got a cab to Club Araoz...aka LOST. Supposedly break dancing ended at 2 but that wasnt true. The entering process was something i'd never experienced as we were waiting in line for a while not sure where to pay. we got some direction, paid about 8 us dollars to get in, walked through a metal detector, got patted down, my purse got searched, and THEN we went in. Turns out some guys from atlanta were right behind us haha small world. so the dance battle went for a while and it was sick..something from those dance battles. And kasey the movie goo-roo tells me that the same song on zoo lander during their dance off was played during the dance off in the club. at the end of the break dancing these 2 men come out and do a coreographed dance to end things and begin the regular dancing. THankfully the boys from our group were pretty protective of us to the argentines and we appreciated it greatly. WE americans definitely got some interesting looks and comments but since i couldnt understand them, i really didnt care :) SOmething super interesting was when we entered the bathroom, a woman was handing our pre-portioned toilet paper!!! haha it was crazy but they didnt have any just laying all around the ground like waisteful american toilet users :) so the club kept us entertained for a while considering they played soulja boy as the first song and continued to play all of OUR rap songs... about 3 30 we called it a night and headed on home via taxi. este manana, we arose, ate, showered and headed to class but of course that includes stopping at pelli bar for some epanadas. Class was intense today as we listened to an interview about the politics of BA..super hard to pick up anything. I think my spanish is just hiding right now and I need to dig it up :) I can't remember if i included in my post the other day that our teacher taught us cuss words.. haha she was just talking and then all the sudden dropped the f bomb in english and then spanish.. haha part of the culture i suppose..not mine though. after class i had to run errands, the pharmacity, the ATM, the ferreteria (to get an adapter) y to get more phone minutes. Funny story about the adapter, i got one from this man and then came home needing to charge my camera battery before our trip tomorrow. I couldnt fit the plug in and was soo sad.. I got the house boy to try and he couldnt do it either. I went upstairs to our friends room and was complaining and as i was ssaying "see look it wont go" it slipped in!! so great. we took a big step and took our dirty clothes to the lavenderia today and picked them up tonight. The cutest and friendliest younger man i've seen this whole trip works there and it was good to see one smile for the day..because you dont see many! I need to go to bed so here are just a few more random thoughts.. while eating mcdonalds ice cream tonight, my friend was looking at his bag and realized someone had slit a huge knife throught it in hopes of stealing something. they didnt but its just scary to see a huge slit in your bag! also, when i was preparing my sentence for the pharmacist today i was going to say "necesito medicino para mi naranja" which says i need medicine for my orange.. good thing it didnt make it to my mouth before realizing that was super wrong but really funny! When adam and I took the bus line and got lost, it was one thing, but we didnt realize we told blake to get on the same bus, and he did later! He ended up in the outskirts of town, went through the slums, it was dark and well.. hes gay so he was very nicely dressed....and this was all my fault :( He ended up getting off the IDA route and on the VUELTA... then walked to his address on the pueyredon street..only to find out it was a totally different street with the same name.. in which case he got in a taxi.. 4 hours later, he was home! haha man... thats the kind of thing thats super scary while happening but if you get out safe, funny afterwards. im hoping this doesnt happen again to anyone. thats all for tonight, i'm traveling to mendozA for the weekend and will return late monday night! chau chau..pics to come soon!