recientemente

Well, I've basically been LIVING in the silence room of the library these past few days trying to get my reading done from my history class. I'm writing a 7-14 page paper (yes grandpa, all in Spanish) on femininity, adolescense, sexuality and immigration in the 1870's-1920's in Uruguay. It is actually pretty interesting stuff, it just takes an added amount of concentration when you throw in the foreign language aspect!

I uploaded some new pictures onto Picasa from a multitude of different things...class tours, international fair, community service and Punta del Este. I still need to upload pics from when Mom and Dad came---I'm getting there!

http://picasaweb.google.com/102816793100596881033/Uruguay02#

Tonight I am going to my first Peñarol game!! There are 2 soccer teams here, Peñarol and Nacional. Peñarol is more the 'working man's' team and Nacional is a little more upper class. The fans of Peñarol call themselves Manya and the fans of Nacional call themselves Bolso. (You'll probably see something about this in my pictures from time to time...there is grafitti all over Montevideo for this!) Anyway, Peñarol is playing tonight so I'm going with a huge group of students...it's going to be awesome! We got tickets in a pretty decent section, which is good because there is also a part of the stands that is CRAZY! I've been warned not to go to that section because apparently it is where the completely beligerent drunks go and they shoot off fireworks and start riots....can't wait to see it!!!

I think Silvia has caught on to the fact that I have yet to gain weight here. She prides herself on the fact that she feeds all of her exchange students so well that they all have gained weight. Since this is not the case for me, I have noticed that the portion sizes have been getting larger. Also, in the morning I usually only have toast and coffee with the fixings...now I have been getting toast, crackers, coffee, and some type of breakfast torte...and if I don't eat everything she thinks I'm sick! Haha I guess I should consider myself lucky that Silvia pays alot of attention to me and makes sure I'm taken care of!