Ahh so much has happened!! Well first of all, on Friday I went to services (my family is Jewish) and dinner with my host family (minus yael, she was at a birthday party of someone I didn't know), both sets of grandparents (who are soo cute, i love them!), another couple, and Moni's best friend with her son and husband. Then on Saturday we just chilled, did homework and rested. Me and Yael went in their pool, which was amazing! It was so warm, and very relaxing :) We left at around seven to go to the hairdresser to get our hair done for the fifteen birthday party we were going to that night. When that was done, we came home to get ready and then we headed off to the party. In Argentina, fifteenth birthday parties are a big deal, like a sweet sixteen in the states. They had rented out a big dance hall or something, it reminded me of a wedding. There were some couches and low tables on one side of the area, and a bar (with non-alcoholic drinks, haha) and a dance floor, and then up some stairs was an outside sort of garden area with more tables and stuff.
The party started at ten thirty, but for the first two or so hours we just hung around talking, greeting everyone. Then Vale, the birthday girl, entered, and there were photographers and everything. It was like a quincinera, but not religious. She wore a beautiful puffy pink dress. They showed a slide show of her and she gave out little oscar things to her parents and closest friends. They had hired a company to dress her up to look like she was a movie star from the '40s or something, for a video thing they made with her and a guy. They also made a signature book with pictures of her in her different outfits. It was all very fancy, and she looked so glamorous! Then the dancing started, mostly reggaeton and cumbia, but they danced pretty much the same as we do in the states, which was good because I didn't look like too much of an idiot ;) oh and there were waiter people constantly walking around, first with appetizers, then plates of pizza, bowls of suuuper good icecream, and throughout the night they came around with candy and sandwiches. Well anyways, we danced and talked and everything, until five in the morning when Moni picked us up and took us home. It was really a great evening :)

The next day we had to get up in the morning because we were leaving at 11:30 for my family's weekend house, which is on a gorgeous lake, called a Dique. It's like a resevour I think. The house is beautiful too, with a wood stove for cooking empanadas and meat (like the kind you cook pizza and bread in) and they have a motorboat that we went out on. We hooked up an intertube to the back of the boat and lay on it while Mario drove the boat, and it was so much fun. I fell off like three times though, because when you're going really fast, the intertube swings back and forth and bumps over the wake of the boat pretty violently. I got burned pretty bad on my back from lying on the intertube for so long, but it was still a lot of fun. And sometimes they go waterskiing, which I can't wait to try! Afterwards we had salad and empanadas and reeaaallly good beef, and then lay in the hammocks and beach chairs for a few hours. Then we watched half of the Titanic on TV and drove home. All in all it was a great weekend :) too bad I had to go back to school! School is definitely not as fun, the professors talk really fast and it's hard to keep up. Plus, when everyone at school is together they talk super fast and there are different conversations going on at once, and I can't understand practically anything. But when there's a smaller group of people I can usually join in the conversation. It's slow going, but I'm making friends with people. Everyone here is pretty nice, especially my family. And I'm really busy, doing things like tennis lessons (on clay courts! yay!) theatre classes with Yael, and school. Well anyways, I can't believe it's already been two weeks that I've been gone, it definitely doesn't feel that long! Except that I miss my family and my friends so much. Not so much that I want to come home though!