Yes, we are still alive.. We got extremely depressed by the fact that Carlitos has left our blog... So we have not been able to produce any kind of text what-so-ever...

Honestly speaking, nothing much has been going on and we have actually been concentrating on things such as school for a while. We are going though some difficulties with courses and projects that need serious actions (a.k.a. probably dropping a course and attending some open university course back in Finland... Heini was by the way supposed to have a Vilho Mäkelä's Macro exam today in the Finnish embassy... Guess twice whether she did it or not...). Oh yeah, did we tell about the Mexican night we arranged? The little organizers have made their entrance also here in BsAs as us girls decided to gather the exchange students (or some of them) together in to a Mexican restaurant to enjoy some dinner. Here are some pictures of the event.

This is actually from the after party.. Or another party.. Well, anyways Carlos and Tiina learning some local dances, most probably Cumbia under practice here.




Oh, other thing that happened. We had a party in Delta, that's about 45 minutes firts by train and then 1,5 hours by boat to a lovely summer place of some Argentinean girl. The party was alright, there were probably about 100 people. One thing just sucked: no one remebered to mention to us that this party would be outside.. And it was Freezing!! And there we waited untill 3 in the morning. And after that the boat trip and the train back home.. So I (this is Tiina writing now...) got sick and was sick the whole next week. ANYWAY, back to my point, this was not the big happening, the action was before the party. As we were on out way to the meeting point in the notorious Retiro we tried to be really cautios of any suspicious people hanging around since this is known to be one of those places where people should not go after dark. So, it was only 7pm, and we didn't think anything would happen. Me, Anni and Päivi (Heini was home sick) were closing our meeting point near the Retiro train station as suddenly I noticed some little guy coming behind Päivi thinking that he is probably a poor little boy begging for Päivi's food (shewas carrying a pizza box). Well, turns out he was not so innocent after all. It took me a second to notice that there were actually 4 or 5 of them and they first grabbed Päivi from behind (perus niskalenkkiote) and tried taking her bag. Then some other guy grabbed a hold of Anni's bag and was threatning her with a broken bottle. At this point any normal human being would scream and let go of their bags. But not us Finnish girls. Nooo... I started hitting the guys with my wine bottle (what?!?!) and we just fought back for a while and then they ran away. I even ran back to get Anni's watch that had dropped during the struggle. Hello?? This is not a way to act in a situation like this?! Well, it was all over in probably 10 seconds and we are all ok. We were just a little bit shaken up after this but gladly the other guys were near by. And our dear Carlitos actually saw us from the other side of the park but couldn't see that is was us but thought that we were some Argentinean kids fooling around.. Not exactly..

Tomorrow we have to return to Retiro and face our fears us our trip to the north of Argentina starts at 10pm from the Retiro bus station. Let's hope weäll have better luck this time. So we'll be travelling for a week and a half in the north, in Salta and Tucuman to be more exact. We'll post some thoughts and pictures from the trip when we get home.

Besos chicos!

T