Concord and Concordia

I traveled to Salto again this past weekend and Shamari and I visited Concordia, Argentina.  We primarily walked (semi) aimlessly around, ate lots of food, and slept... it was great.  We took a boat across the river from Salto on Saturday morning and we took a taxi back to the border on Sunday where a friend picked us up.  Then, of course, we had an asado by the river, hung out, played a little soccer, and ate delicious food (thanks Alejandro y Jesus!)
Pictures!
Here is Shamari with his long-sought after brownie (without nuts!) and smoothie (it's really hard to find brownies in Uruguay, especially without nuts)

 Here's a picture of me with a delicious submarino, which is basically like hot chocolate on steroids because they give you real chocolate and you just stir it together.

 I've become a border rat :)... this is me sitting in the sun on the border of Uruguay and Argentina while we waited for Jesus to pick us up (yes, we got a ride from Jesus).

Here is a picture of the river where we had the asado and Michael and Nicolas playing soccer (we had to chase the ball to prevent from going into the river several times, this was mostly my fault, because I have such good coordination...)

I'm back in Paysandu now, and this week has brought more of a routine.  I'm beginning to actually do work and give presentations in classes and interact with the students more.  I've also started to get in a running routine, which is great, and I love running by the river because it's really pretty and it's still warm here.  I've started going to Chemistry classes (in spanish!) as well and I can understand more than I thought I would.  I think (I hope) my spanish is getting a little better every day... it's still hard to communicate sometimes, and I can understand more than I can say, but I'm working on it.  I had to give a presentation about myself and the Fulbright program objectives (why I'm here) last night to a library full of high school teachers in Spanish.  I don't think it went fantastically, but I do think they could understand me and my mentors reassured me that no, I didn't look like total idiot, and I did "very well." Yay :)

More Pictures- my mentor, Adriana took this picture of me with some students during our first conversation "club" yesterday.

I took this picture when I was running by the river in the sunshine :)

I took this picture of some horses by the river, too (the one laying down isn't dead, it's a baby and I think it was trying to bother it's mom, or being lazy, both of which I'm sure my mom is used to...)

I'll post some more pictures of where I'm living/ my room after I've cleaned it a bit ;)