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Hey everyone!

I was sick this week with a cold and stuck at home without internet. Hopefully I will be getting wifi soon though! I didn´t do a whole lot this week with me being in bed and all, but I did go into the city to pick up the package my mom sent me. Because it is international it had to go through customs, which is a long, grueling process - atleast in Buenos Aires. A couple of friends were nice enough to drive me into the city and help me get my package. We were there for a couple of hours waiting for them to get to my box (there were a lot of people waiting to get there´s too. There were about 60 people in front of us). Once they called out our number we got to go into a back room where they have the customs process; which is where they cut open your package and dig through it to make sure you aren´t smuggling anything illegal into the country. Fortunately for me the box was addressed to a church and apparently I don´t look too sketchy, so the employee just gave me my box without tearing it apart :) I love being a girl sometimes.

Saturday morning I went grocery shopping at the nearby supermarcado, where I learned to never go shopping Saturday morning at the nearby supermarcado. Apparently everyone and their cousin goes Saturday morning and all of the checkers are open and all of them have long lines... and for some reason checkers are just slower here than at Vons. You can wait 20 minutes in a line of 3 people. yep. And that´s without a pricecheck.

So I decided to make chocolate chip cookies for the college group Saturday night since these cookies seem to be few and far between. It takes hours to make cookies if you don´t have proper cookie sheets by the way. Needless to say, the cookies turned out great and everyone loved them, and I ate like 6. Once the bananas ripen I´m going to make banana bread!

I´m going to start posting a section we´ll call "Cultural Difference of the Day" where I´ll describe something that I notice about Argentina or the culture that is just "different" than what we are used to seeing in the Good ol´USA. But not today. Gotta go - talk to you all later!

Chao!