Buenos Aires: Food, Music, Parks, Clubs, People, and Chaos

Hey Everyone,

        I am on my 13th day of travel, (inlcuding the terrible day of flight), and I am still of to a good start. My past 10 days have been crazy. I am trying to get a good dose of green, so I have gone to every park I can find. There are some amazing parks, however a lot are ridden with dog poop. Last Monday I went to drum show called ``la bomba de tiempo,`` it was amazing. I went with a a guy from Amsterdam, Holland, a woman from Australia, and a girl from London, England. A pretty eclectic group, eh? Everything I do seems to be involved with someone from another part of the world, clearly a part of international travel. I had my first night on the town as well. In Argentina, you usually don´t go out untill atleat 2 am, so after a pre party at the hostel, we went to a bar at around 2:30. The group I went to the club consisted of 1 Irish woman, 1 English girl, 3 Argentines, 2 Californians, a Peruvian, and a Chilean. It was a totally new scene being at a bar. There was music, dancing, and everything you could imagine in the wee hours of the night, I will let your imagination wonder.
       On Sunday, September 6th, I went to the San Telmo street fair, which was amazing. It spanned at leat 10 blocks down a closed off street. There were thousands of people there. I had amazing jugo de naranja (orange juice) freshly squeezed. I also visted the famous Recoletta cemetary last week. It was unlike any cemetary I have ever seen, for there was no grass what so ever. The most afluent of Buenos Aires families are burried in huge granite housing in the cemetary, it is quite the sight. I went over the La Boca, a less afluent neighborhood of Buenos Aires, and saw the colorful buidlings, for which that neighborhood is famous.
     On the subway the other day, I was crammed into a corning, next to this lady reading a book. Being curious, or maybe nosy, I started reading her book (in spanish) I recognized the names and the story, and realized it was Sputnik Sweetheart by Murukami. I showed her the book I was reading The Underground - Murkukami, and told her how much I loved Murukami`s other books. She said it was her first Murukami, and I told her which other ones to read. Then a guy next to us started talking about his favorite Murukami books, it was as if we were all supposed to meet on the subway. This serendipitous event pretty much made my day. I went to the Ecolgocial Reserve, which was created by dumping a tone of waste products, from torn down houses, in the river, and miraculously, seeds from Uruguay came, implanted themselves in the waste, and grew a ton of trees and plants. I have done a ton of things so far in less than two weeks, and I have only just started. I am figuring plans to go to a farm in Jujuy, but have not yet made the arrangements. I could be leaving as soon as Wednesday the 16th.

Hope all is well,

Oliver