Cordoba

Hope everyone is doing well. We have begun taking intensive Spanish classes. We are meeting for 4-5 hours a day, 5 days a week. We will do this type of class for 1 month, take a break and then get back to it for another month. We laugh because we have been here for 6 weeks and been in class with homework for 5 weeks already. I suppose that we are students for life. This past weekend, 3 days because of San Martin (Libertador), we took a bus trip to the 2^nd largest city, Cordoba. The busses are the way to travel in South America. They are large double-decker busses with semi-cama, cama (bed), and suite options. We were in the front of the 2^nd level, so we had large panoramic windows to look out. The bus stations are insane, people shoving and pushing, and also about 10,000 other people who just seem to be standing around eternally. We enjoyed the city of Cordoba a great deal. We also rented a car for a day and traveled down to Villa General Belgrano, a German city in Argentina. The town looked very German. We ate fondue and had a Warsteiner while communicating in Spanish, it was a surreal experience. It was great to get out on the open road and away from the craziness of BA for a while. We are still loving it here. It is amazing that school and sports are already starting up and we are not there! You all are missed. Thanks for keeping up with us, and we would love to hear from you all.