Today was a busy day. During the night the clocks went ahead, today is the first day of summer, and it is mother´s day here. The hostel serves breakfast. It was cereal that is kinda like frosted flakes, coffee, tang, tea, and 2 kinds of bread.The bread comes with3 condiments: butter, dolce de leche, and some dairy substance that was like a swiss flavored cream cheese, but the consistency of gummy nacho cheese-sounds gross but it was really good.
Buying a bus ticket. It costs 90 centavosto ride the Subte(subway). Because it was sunday some of the smaller station entrances were closed. I went all over before i found out i was just on the wrong side of the first building...dedeede. Bonus though, i got to see more of downtown. There are alot of huge buildings and advertising everywhere and shit tons of burgerkings. The malls downtown are called galleries and it is basically an extention of the shitty shops on street. I heard that better shopping is outside the area, so there is hope. Once i finally got into the Subte I headed to El Retiro which is where the Omnibus station terminal is located. On the walk out of the subway I saw a kid sleeping in this concrete hole behind this big adversitesment board. It scared the shit out of me, it was sad. I didn´t know which way to go, but I just went. Happened to be the correct dierection after a few blocks of wading through a huge crowd of people, hot dog vendors, bakery´s, a mercado, a butchery all sorts of stuff I found the place! It was so exciting just to arrive at the place I wanted to go! Hooray I navigated! The bus station is bigger than the boise airport. I found the international companies and found the best price and bought myself a ticket! the bus ride will take 24 hours and it cost 120 american dollars. I sprang for the fancy seats that lay all the way back :) On they way out of the bus station there was a dog sleeping in the middle of the floor, everyone just walked around it, no big deal. When i headed back to the hostel i found my favorite gum at the news stand, trident splash strawberry lime, es muy deliciosa!
Benefits of International Travel. I realized today that as long as I am in South America I am not going to see any patients that I know. It´s so comforting. It´s really fun to practice spanish, everyone is really nice when i screw it up. hehe that reminds meof the girl that i bought some socks from. She was ringing the socks up in a computer,pushing all these buttons and is starting to look frustrated, then she called out for the other girl working in the store. She comes over to me , sighs and said,"ah, I screwed it!" It was so goddamn hilarious. I almost cried and then i felt bad and told her how to say it right.
Other travelers. I met a girl from New York who said that crime was bad here. She said on her first day some guy tried one of her friends bags and then another girl she met had been robbed twice in just a few days. She was snobby and upity though. I don´t think i need to worry about what a girl totting around an armload of Christian Lacroix bags has to say.
Travel tip! Study up on local fashion trends. Lack of doing so will severely diminish the accuracy of your GAYDAR. It´s pretty metrosexual here, more than i´m used to anyway. If you are a hostelling international member you get10% off your bus ticket fares,I learned that like an hour after i bought my ticket. Ask for discounts. If they say no you can always find something to pee on just so everything is even... :)
The night. I was in a room with a bunch of alcoholics They were up and down and in and out, i got shit for sleep! stupid hostel full of kids.
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How about peeing on the bus!!!
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