Week 15

First off, where did the first half of May go? Time is flying. Week 15 was a good one with a nice balance of fun things mixed in with a ton of studying. I have my partial exam (can't call it a midterm as we have 4 classes left) for my History of Art class on Monday, so I've been studying a lot for that, because I found out that if I get at least a 6 on the partial, I only get tested on the material after the partial for my final. I don't think it will be too hard, but I want to be prepared. I also have no idea how they are going to grade my test since I'm the only one who doesn't speak Spanish as their first language.

I had a presentation for my psychology class on Tuesday, so Sunday and Monday were spent working on that. It went really well, but it was really weird to speak a little bit of English with my Argentine class. Since they are studying public relations, they have to learn English as a requirement, so part of each class has to have a small English aspect to it.

Wednesday I had to go back to migrations for the fifth time to get my visa situation resolved. Good news! It's finally done! I have my visa and an extra sheet of paper with the correction of my name. I'm so glad that it's done. I was getting sick of waking up at 6:30 on my days off to go to Retiro (the neighborhood where migrations is). After getting that taken care of, I went to the school to turn in my copy that they've been bugging me about. Now I'm all set to get my transcript and everything! After a bit of studying, I met up with my friend to go to MALBA which stands for "Museo del arte latinoamericano de Buenos Aires" (Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires). We were supposed to go for our lit class a while ago, but never made it, and it was something we wanted to check out. It was really cool! There was a ton of variety with the paintings and it was really interesting! (And free!- On Wednesdays, students enter for free). We saw a painting by Frida Kahlo as well as a painting that we talked about in our lit class.

Abaporu by Tarsila de Amaral (We talked about this in our lit class)

Autoretrato con Mono y Perico (Self Portrait with Monkey and Parrot) by Frida Kahlo

After heading back to Belgrano, I did some more studying at a cafe until 5 when I met up with my friend Karen to go see the new Winnie the Pooh movie (in Spanish of course!). It doesn't come out in the states until July 15, but it was really good! Definitely brought back a ton of childhood memories! This one was a little more tricky to understand than Rio, because some of the dialogue and songs were kind of fast, but I got the gist of it!

Thursday was a normal day of classes and on Friday I went with some friends to the National Museum of Fine Art. It was a nice museum, but I preferred Malba.

Saturday I had to dedicate most of the day to studying for my exam on Monday, but I took a little time to go to Plaza San Martin to see this big exhibit. It's called La Torre de Babel and it's a huge tower constructed of 30,000 books. It's based on a work by Marta Munjín and after the exhibit they are donating the books to start a new multilingual library called La Biblioteca de Babel. After about an hour in line, I got to climb up to the 5th level! It was pretty awesome!

La Torre de Babel

Off to do more studying! Looking forward to Iguazú on Wednesday! We leave Tuesday night and are gone for the whole weekend! It will be a really nice break from the big city!