last blog from Buenos Aires

hi everyone!

I foget what the last thing i wrote about was and i can´t be bothered checking now so i will just tell you about yesterday. It started out as an average day, we had aimed to leave the hostel at 9 and were out by 10.30, which is a definite improvement on our usual 12pm. We had quite an effort trying to catch our first bus, we managed to hail one down but they would only accept coins and we mainly had notes. so we rode to the next stop got off again and went to some local shops to try and get change. this was easier said than done as most shops had signs that said no coins! so eventually we found an internet cafe who understood what we were saying enough to change our $5 note, we found a new bus and we were on our way. It was a long bus ride to La Boca and i definitely prefer the subways but there was no subway to La Boca. We had been looking forward to seeing this suburb because its quite famous but it ended up being quite disappointing, it felt like a little tourist town, all the walls were painted bright colours which is what La Boca is famous for but the place was filled with people dressed in tango outfits wanting people to take their photo, they weren´t dancing they were just dressed up and they wanted people to pay them for a photo, everything that you could take a photo of cost about 3 peso and people were all asking you to come eat at their restaurant, the area also smelt quite nasty and the entire area was only a small block, i had expected it to be smaller. Every few mins another massive tourist bus would pull up and the whole place felt tacky. when walking down a nearby street a dump truck filled with old animal carcesses drove past which explained the nasty smell.

So we left that area pretty quickly and we back into the square, and there were police men everywhere wearing full body protection and shields, and had massive metal walls, and as we walked further we could see in the distance a huge protest about to start, I¨m not sure what they were protesting as I couldn´t read the signs and we decided not to go any closer. we also wen´t into a large cathedral which was quite impressive. even though it was only 3pm we were all exhautsted so we decided just to head back to the hostel for a while and relax.

That evening Claire, Anthea, Moa and I went to a drumming show called La Bomba, and it was so amazing. I´m not usually a fan of drumming but these guys were so talented and it was all improvised, they would just follow the conducters cues but it sounded so cool. the area itself was very funky, it was outdoor but it was enclosed by walls and had random posters al over the walls of old people at the beach. the show went for 2 hours and i didn´t want it to end! Moa took some photos cos i didn´t bring my camera but hopefully i will get a copy from her.

Anyway Anthea wants the comp now so I´ll leave it at that, today is our last day in BA and tonight we take a night bus to Iguazu falls, I´m really looking forward to seeing these falls.

Must go!
Ciao