!Saludos desde Mendoza, Argentina!

Hello, hello! In case you dont understand what my title means, my title translates to "Greetings from Mendoza, Argentina!" in Spanish. Just yesterday I arrived in, the very hot, Mendoza. I am studying both Spanish and business at Castleton State College and am doing my study abroad here in Argentina! It is currently  their summer and probably close to 90 degrees right now at almost 10 30pm and it is absolutely amazing, I love the warm weather. I am staying with a wonderful host family with two young children, a boy who is almost six and a girl who is seven years old. They are the sweetest most loving children I have met in my life!

Although I think its awesome, I am writing on a Spanish laptop. It is definitely a slow task to write this blog entry because many keys are in different places, new letters have been added altogether, and I cant figure out how to type and apostrophe :-( So please bare with me!

I had my first day of classes today. It was definitely a long day but so worth it! I have already met people from all over the world, there is even a girl from Indonesia who has been studying Spanish for only a year and already sounds like a native Argentinian! I have met people from England, Scotland, Germany, Australia, and France. I love that our common language is Spanish and I can communicate with these people from around the world with my native language. I will be in Mendoza for three weeks. I am VERY much looking forward to this Saturday where I will go rafting and repelling! I am right next to the Andes mountain and not too far from the highest peak in all of South America. My host mom said it was a wonderful excursion so I am hoping to go there during my stay as well.

I flew over to Mendoza from Santiago, Chile and traveled over the Andes mountains. And I thought we had moutains in Vermont....they look like bunny hills compared to these mountains! Although I will admit the flight over the Andes was pretty frightening. I am not the best of flyers being afraid of heights and my airplane was going through a ridiculous amount of turbulance and made the most awful noises I have ever heard a plane make! My host family says that it is completely normal for planes to do that when flying over the Andes though, apparently there are air pockets created because of the mountains that the plane has to fly through.
I will get on the laptop to update as much as I can! Its dinner time now at 10 30! Yumm!!

Hasta pronto,

Nydelis