Piercings y panqueques.

Good news! Piercings in Argentina cost about $8! (As opposed to the $40-50 in the States). I think the only responsible thing to do is to get about 12 piercings per ear and then decide which ones I want to keep when I get home. We went to a galería (kinda like a mini-mall off the street) called Bond Street. I have never seen so many tattoo parlors in one place! It was the hardcore/punk center of Buenos Aires, seemed like.. tattoos, piercings, stores that only sell combat boots, stores with ACDC/Megadeth shirts. Despite my Gap dress, I do have a blue streak in my hair so I'm pretty sure I fit righttt in.

Canadian is displeased with the lack of maple syrup.

     I mentioned to Sydney a few days ago how much I missed pancakes, and my puppy, and my bed back home. She said "well I can help you with one of those things," and surprised me with pancakes yesterday! She made Claudia and me a pancake feast, complete with chocolate-covered strawberries after school.  Pancake syrup is hard to come by here though, so we had to stick with dulce and peanut butter (I'm not complaining!)
    One of the boys we met in Bariloche had to come back to Buenos Aires for a few days, so he joined us for piercings and pancakes (he did not partake in the piercings, despite our implorations). We were so happy to see him again! Isn't modern communication handy? I love how it's so easy to keep in touch and reconnect with people! He's Canadian, so we had a NAFTA reunion (I stood in for Mexico, obviously, as I am the most qualified.)

NAFTA reunion.

Oh, and last week we went to Sydney's choir concert! She's in the choir at our university. It was a benefit concert, and was in the gymnasium of a medical center out in the suburbs... definitely one of the more random things I've been too, but we had a fun evening!

That's all the updates I've got so far... I've got about 25 pages worth of papers to write between now and Monday so I'm about to head to a café and block myself off from the world.
Love you all!