Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Brazil. Spring 2007

Tuesday, March 20, 2007

a study abroad all nighter...

only on rare occasions do i pull an nighters at school. i just dont like doing it, i think its both uncomfortable and totally avoidable. however, last night i ended up pulling my first all nighter in about a year, over a midterm for study abroad...pathetic...id say...


maybe i would be more successful if i created a more conventional study environment as opposed to the one below...

our midterm, which consisted of 3 one page (single space) essays was due this morning. it needed to be e mailed to our directors as well as a printed copy to turn in to them. This is easier said than done in a foreign country with little access to such things as printers and internet.

also this morning, we left for Rosario, a city in the Santa Fe Province, in the Pampas. We needed to be at the bus station at 8 15 in the morning. I finished writing my exam last night around 5 am. after that i packed for our trip, and then around 7am i went surching for a locotorio (little kiosk like stores where you can use computers, printers, and telephones). but the problem was that everythign in argentina seems to run about 2 hrs later than it would in the united states. for instance, dinner is typically eaten here at around 9pm, where as in the us it would be 7pm. people go out here around 3am, where as in college we would go out around 12 30 or 1. so trying to find a locotorio at 7am was the equivalent of trying to find one at 5am.

i was wondering around recoleta with my huge camping backpack, (becasue i was going strait to the bus station after) and all of my other things for the trip, after not sleeping at all the night before. it was kind of a disaster. well i found a 24 hr locotorio, printed and e mailed my exam and was off to the bus station.

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