Yo estoy consada

Did I mention I thought Friday night would be quiet for me? Friday night did not turn out to be the quiet night I thought it would be. Along about midnight, there was a tapping at my door. Did I want to join a couple others for a drink? Sure. Twist my arm. One drink in one bar turned in to another drink in another bar turned in to dancing in a disco. De deedee de deedee de deedee de deedee trance electronica. The club was not good and we didn't stay very long. Though, I did discover you can smoke pot on the dance floor without repercussions. No, I was not smoking pot, just some young guys 'dancing' next to us. [I put dancing in quotes, because hopping up and down and adding some random kicks doesn't really qualify as dancing in my book -- it looked like a soccer warm up move.] We ended up taking another taxi (3rd of the night?) to another club, only to find the music was just as bad there. At which point, 3.30am, we decided to call it a night and head home and have some tea. We talked for maybe one hour, and each went to sleep around 5am.

Did I mention it was pouring down rain all Friday night? No, well it was. And we had a lovely partial tour of Buenos Aires, through all of our taxi rides. This city goes on and on and on. Thankfully, taxis are cheap, like many other things here, and a 10 mile taxi can cost maybe 10 pesos (~$3.30).

Yesterday was a sad day of being tired and trying to find some energy. I woke up yesterday after maybe five hours sleep. Ick. Took a couple siestas, bought some postcards. Went to dinner. And yes, dear reader, with much better club information in hand, we found a very good disco. The music actually had lyrics. The club actually did not have a smoke machine. We danced and danced, until after 4am.

Note: you can tell the travellers who are dancing in BA because they do not do the side step, side step "high school slow dance" on the dance floor. Also, they may be seen to throw their arms in the air and hop around wildly.

The songs that really get the locals dancing are samba or other popular songs from the radio here. It is a noticeable shift.

We had tea again last night, about 5.30am, and the dawn was breaking. By 6am, we couldn't stay awake any longer and headed to our rooms. It was definitely light outside.

Now, I am still fighting tiredness as I haven't been able to sleep longer than 6-7 hours at time for about four days. I have no idea why.

I have homework to do, then it's time for a siesta. Thank god (or whomever) that I don't have too much homework (though I need to study in addition to the exercises) and for siestas. I don't know what I'd do without siestas -- probably start drinking caffeine drinks again.