First day of spanish boot camp

Today we started bootcamp spanish. I'm in Span 152, the lowest one offered here and there only 4 people in my class including me. It was fun and I'm going to pick Spanish up so fast. We watched the super bowl at the Pepperdine house last night, but there were no US commercials, sad. On Sunday, we went to Recoletta, which was an open air market and the Hard Rock Cafe. We figured out how to take the bus to get there. Buses are weird because .90 pesos gets you five blocks on a bus, but if you pay 1 peso, you can go as far as you want. 1 peso is like 33 US cents. The vendors at Recoletta sold many different things. One lady took oranges, dried them inside out to make little boxes and then painted the tops. Really cool looking. Another guy took old SupT (the subway) tickets and folded them into each other to make little statues and paper weights, using the colors on the ticket in different ways in each thing he made. It was sooo hot there. A band was playing in the park in the middle of the fair, so we went and sat down and watched. Argentines love this drink called mate, which is really really intense tea. They drink it out of this weird bowl and it looks like they are doing drugs. Today was the first day of actual class/orientation. Every monday, we have an asado, which is a BBQ....very good. I had chorizo. Tonight I'm going to bed early because I haven't had more than 6 hours of sleep a night since I've been here. That's all for now :)