CS host #2

Today is Tuesday July 23, I arrived at my new Couch Surfing Host yesterday afternoon, and we just hung out. It was my host Carolina Rojo who works as a Yoga instructer and massus; Laura, a Couch Surfer from South Africa who just arrived in Buenos Aires after living in Brazil CS´ing there for 6 months; and myself. We had dinner at the usual time in Buenos Aires, which is between 9:30 and 11, then we went to bed. This reminds me I should talk some about food/my diet. So far, I have been going to sleep around 11:30pm and waking up at 11:30am. I haven´t often eaten any type of break fast at that point but eat an odd type of lunch around 2 or 3 most days, then I wait it out untill the late 9pm or later dinner. The lunch typically has been a few pieces of bread from a local bakery, along with a water. Yup, prison diet, bread and water.

I don´t know exactly what I will do in the future, but the parts of the central city are very expensive it is eaither a small bakery that sells bread for ARS(Argentine Pesos, simply denoted with the same dollar sign)$3-5 per piece or a fancy resturant that every meal that costs between $70-90. The exchange rate fluxuates a lot between street money changers and banks so 1 USD is somewhere between 5.4-7 ARS. So that means a piece of bread between 50 cents- 1 dollar, or a fancy place at 12-16 dollars. So, I think I´ll figure more stuff out as I go, and see what resturants are around my host families home, or look into doing some serious cooking(if that fails its BREAD AND WATER FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE). 

Back to talking about my CS host, she is awesome! Oh, by the way both of my hosts are named Carolina, so I´m just avoiding using names haha, I hope you follow. My last host was very odd to me and I didn´t like her lifestyle which made it hard to connect. The first host was constantly buying new dresses online or looking at new merchandice while she was talking at the very same time about not having money for things because she is unemployed and needs brain surgery. Non of this made sense to me and she just continued spending. Anyway, My new host is much better and I really appriciate her life style. My new host lives in a much smaller neighborhood in her own house, rather than the apt. style life my first host had. The new host loves art, and has multiple projects going right now like any good artist, she is painting a mural

on the front of her house, creating a tile mosaic out of recycled shards of pottery. Also She has a zoo practically, she has 18 cats

, I saw 8 of them in her kitchen she said the rest live outside and around the neighborhood and has 4 or 5 dogs as well. but in the small house, there are animals around every corner. She lives a much simpler lifestyle and is an exteremly funny person, with very relatable stories. She even taught me one of the Overly cheesy pick up lines that everyone in Bs As knows. It goes like this(MOM SKIP TO THE NEXT PARAGRAPH NOWWW!!!): 

"Che que hacemos? 

Quieres mate....... 

o cojemos?" It has both rythm and rhyme that make it roll off the tongue but it says,"Yo, what should we do? Do you want mate(the traditional drink that everyone drinks).... or should we just have sex?" We can just say that I also translated "have sex" modestly. But the whole thing rhymes, and I guess basically everyone around here knows the line, so people often tell the joke without finishing the line. they´ll just say, hey, what should we do? Want some mate? *WINK 

My host then proceeded to tell me and Laura, the other CS´er about a time that she pulled an all nighter studying with aplatonic  friend of hers then he asked her to go get the mate from his kitchen and bring some, but she called him to the kitchen and was like, "Che, que hacemos? No hay mate?" ("hey, what do we do? There is no mate.") So the guy took off running and ran to the store to get some before another word was said.

K mom read here...

Nope, I'm done. Bye. 

-JD