¡Hola! It's like my 4th day in BsAs and I'm already using the accent. In case you didn't know, the people of Buenos Aires (or porteños, as they're called here) have a way of speaking that's reallllly distinct, but the main thing that I've adopted is that when there is "ll" in a word, it doesn't sound like "y" but more like "shje". That's right, I tried to fight it but I'm going to have an Argentinian accent when I speak spanish. And to be perfectly honest, I love it! I think it sounds a lot prettier than the Spanish that is spoken in Texas. Another cool discovery today: Lucía told me today that she is an architect (side note: I almost spelt that word wrong right now because I started to write arquitecta) and that her husband was a professor. THEN she showed me their personal library and if there is one thing I love, it's personal libraries. I have only one requirement for where I'm going to live when I'm older and settled, and that is that I can have one room that's just full of books. So I spent the rest of the night in there perusing Shakespeare (in Old Spanish!) and her collections of Argentinian poets. Have a feeling I'll be in there a lot!

Also there are a bunch of borderline-annoying girls in the lower-level group who keep cracking me up with their Spanglish- they don't know very much Spanish in the first place but it's so funny because they'll just be like "Well I don't know if this is verdad but I heard that..." or "Last night was fun but I was way too borracho, you know?" It's freaking hilarious. And on that note... buena noche a todos.