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Today, I went out all on my lonesome, to have some adventures in the rain... and when I say rain, I mean it's raining so hard that my feet are soaked, my pants are wet, and it's windy on top of that! Good thing Giséle gave me an umbrella... Even though the rest of me is soaked, my hair is still nice and big!! :) hehe
So Giséle told me to go to Recoleta today, which is a really big cemetary way the hell far away from where we live. To get there, I'd have to take the bus. Now I don't know if you know anything about foreign drivers, but... let's just say, they aren't the most careful drivers, and they'll hit you if you get in their way!
I was told to go to the right out the door of the apartment, and then the the right again, and then to cross the street to the bus stop for bus #67. Okay, that part was easy... you get on the bus, and tell the driver where you're going, so I politely tell him, in my most spanish accent, and making sure to roll my "r"... "El cemetario de Recoleta, por favor." awesome, I'd just had my first conversation in spanish. I don't know if that qualifies as a conversation, but I was damn proud of myself. Giséle had told me that there would be a LOT of turns and to watch out for a casa rosada, or a pink house... she said HOUSE mind you. So I'm talking, or attempting to talk to this lady behind me to see if she can help me find my stop, I didn't want to be an idiot and miss it, right? So we're talking and I tell her where I'm from, that I only speak enough spanish to barely speak it, and that if she doesn't talk slower ... No comprendo, okay! So we're talking, and I'm looking for the damn casa rosada that she said would be there, and I see a big pink building, a MUSEUM okay... not an effing house, and I think well that could have been it, but it was a museum, not a house... so I don't get off.
Turns out that I should have gotten off cause it's not a house I should have been looking for it was that damn museum. Stupid Stupid Stupid... So I get to ride the bus all over Buenos Aires, or just a small part of it, but I think it was such a blessing I didn't get off, I got to see the Obelesco, and lots of other cool stuff, like the jardÃn zoológico and all that stuff, and I got to practice my spanish with the paraguayan buss driver, who spoke much slower. We had some laughs, he showed me some stuff, and then I finally made my stop. I had to walk about 4 blocks to get there which wasn't too bad except for the rain, and then I paid 4 pesos, like $1.33 for a map guide to Recoleta.
There are tons of cats at this cemetary, and lots of people were petting them... but I remember from my trip to Greece that you're not supposed to touch stray cats, they can carry TB... and I don't want to have to go through that again thankyouverymuch! So, these cats are like following me like they might eat my legs off, and all I want to do is find the grave of Eva (Evita) Perón. I come along some strangers who don't have a map, and holy crap, they spoke english... so we went looking for it on our own. It took about 10 minutes to find something that should have been pretty easy to find, and there it was. Nothing spectacular, but now I can say that I've seen her grave... actually, none of these were regular graves, they are all mausoleums... so it's a huge cemetary of dead people houses, and I¨m walking all by myself. That's not creepy at all, is it?
So, I took a few pictures of things, Evita's mausoleo, and then this one of which I read in my guide book to buenos aires. The name of the person was Rufina. Turns out this girl was in a coma but they thought she was dead. So they put her in her casket and put her into her mausoleo and left her... A while later, the grounds keepers heard screaming coming from her dead house, and they tried to get her out but it was too late. They opened up her casket and there were scratch marks all up on the casket and her face from trying to get out, but she ended up dying in the struggle... Nice... good job doctors. Any how, I thought that was a cooler story than the Evita grave, so I took more pictures of that. It was raining pretty hard so I didn't stay very long, but I took a few pictures cause I thought you all might like to see the stuff I get to see.
I'm probably going to be going to the zoo later and there are really cool animales there, so.. yeah, I'll make sure to post pictures of that.. and I'll find someone to walk around with so you all don't worry about me being captured. Although, I do carry my pepper spray in my coat pocket so you really don't need to worry all that much.
Anywho, I'm going to post my pictures now, and then I might go eat something. Jon Jon was right, dulce de leche is good... and so are empanadas!
Chau,
MP
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