Just when I thought that I had discovered most of the quirks of Buenos Aires, something new pops up to surprise me! I thought today would be just another boring, typical day before the big weekend trip, but I guess an "average" day in Buenos Aires is far from the "average" day back home! Haha!
On my walk to school everyday, I pass a huge military estate that apparently is home to the Argentinean Mounted Army (military on horses). It is called "Regimiento de Granaderos a Caballo General San Martín" -what a mouthful! The estate itself is very pretty, but blocked by a tall iron gate and guards who watch me walk by each morning. Usually, just looking at the building is interesting enough, but today, the mounted military was out riding around the grounds! My friend and I stopped to watch them gallop by, and I had just enough time to poke my camera through the gate to snap some photos! I'm not quite sure if the photo taking was acceptable, but no one stopped me...whew!
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| The photo I took this morning from the fence. |
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| The Mounted Army Estate ( I walk the sidewalk in front of it everyday) |
The next "adventure" of the day was bought at a fruit stand, also on my walk to the University. My friend (Theodora) and I needed to pick up some fruit to go with our lunch, and it works out perfectly that there is a small, locally owned store on our walk to school. We decided to try something new, and each picked out a
Kaki; the store owner said it was a fruit and could be eaten like an apple, so we decided to try something new! I ate the fruit on my break from class, and it was actually quite good! Kaki looks like a tomato, but is sweet. It kind of had the texture of a plum or a peach, but it's own unique taste. Not bad for a mystery fruit! According to my wikipedia research, the English word for Kaki is "persimmon", but I have never heard of that either. I believe it's a more local fruit, according to the "map of production" I also found on Wiki, which would explain why I have never seen this in Michigan before!
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| Kaki Fruit |
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| Notice the red in South America? That's where the Kakis live! |
After school ended, my friend Anna and I walked around another part of Belgrano, just seeing what was around. You never know what you're going to see here...there is always something new! My favorite sights of the Belgrano walk was a "Happy Bus"- a bus that was disguised as a train, driving around the streets playing music (we thought it was for children, but it looked like it was functioning as a normal city bus...adults on board and all!). My other favorite sight was "Pizza Cono"- a pizza shop that sells pizza in a "cone"! Haha!
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| Pizza in a Cone! Yum yum? |
After walking around a lot, Anna and I stopped at the same Freddo Ice Cream shop that we visited last week. They are having a promo, which is a large cup of Chocolate and Dulce de Leche ice cream for $14 Pesos (about $3.00 American Dollars)! How could we say no to a deal like that?! Plus, the weather has been pretty warm lately- about in the 60s and humid. In order to fit in with the local though, I still wear my winter coat everywhere (so warm! ugh! I don't know why everyone here is bundled up when it's not cold), so the ice cream was needed!
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| The sweetest bargain. |
The rest of my evening was spent packing and getting ready for the Iguazu trip tomorrow...so excited! We had a pretty large dinner tonight, which consisted of Milensa (the chicken...again!), corn on the cob, a squash and onion mixed side dish, and salad (always just lettuce and tomato).
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Milanesa: the meal we literally eat almost every-other-day! Haha :)
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Well, I have to meet a taxi outside my apartment at 5:00 am Friday morning to take me to the airport where I'll fly to Iguazu Falls with my program! Bed time for me! Chau! :)
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