Met a girl randomly from Atlanta who went to UGA on the street in Mendoza and grabbed her email in case we were in the same town. Becca and I ended up traveling through Uruguay for 6 days, a 6-day moment. At the hostel before we left, they tried to make her pay to store her bag there for 30 minutes while we went for lunch and I would have none of that! I argued with the staff about how absolutely ridiculous that is after I spent over $100 in their hostel, including tipping the staff, but they ended up pissing me off to the point I just yelled at them and left. Then, after a bloody mary on the waterfront, me and Becca hopped on the ferry to Colonia, Uruguay. We met a guy from England on the ferry named Joey and we ended up staying at his hotel called Leoncia.

His hotel was 5-star luxury, which was nice because I needed a vacation badly. It even included a pool and hot-tub. We stayed in Colonia for a few days relaxing and eating lots of food.

Then we took a bus to Montevideo where we attended a live Tango show of a young, up-and-coming Uruguayan tango singer. The place of the show was an amazing 100-year old building with stone walls and only 5 or 6 tables. We got the table in the front a few feet from the girl. It was an amazing show and really illustrated the difference between the Uruguayan culture and the Argentininan. During the show, a guy leaned over and asked me where I was from. He studied in a British school but was Uruguayan. He owned several businesses in Uruguay and wrote down the name of some places to visit in Punta Del Este and the names of his friends to contact. Then he asked me to visit him in Montevideo on Monday for a black-tie party he was hosting.

The next day we met up with some friends of mine from Buenos Aires and they bought us tickets to the local soccer game. As we walked up, I heard the roar of the stadium from 4 blocks away. The stadium was sold out capacity, with the most passionate and classy fans I've ever seen. We somehow ended up in the front row of the stadium on the field! Our team won, and we had a great time cheering for the Uruguayan National team against Boca, a local Argentinian team.

The following day we took a short bus (2 hours) to Punta and laid on the beach and ate amazing food. We didn't have time to visit the places the guy gave us, but overall it was an amazing day-trip experience. That night, we rushed back to Montevideo to catch a live comedy theatre show. Sinec Becca speaks fluent spanish and I speak 100 words, I did alot of infering, but they were great actors and I laughed the whole time.

When I returned to BA, I immediately met up with Joey in Palermo House and we took a quick taxi to Recoleta Cultural Centre for the One Dot Zero visual arts festival. That night was a french band called Colder, who were passion-less, too cool for school, and generally unenthusiastic. We left after 20 minutes, a huge dissapointment. BUT, afterwards we hit up 4 different bars and the last bar some locals who spoke english approached us because they recognized us from a previous bar and hung out with us. We decided to go dancing at 5:30AM and stayed till 8AM!!

I slept in today a few hours and am downloading cool songs off Joey's IPOD. Today we are going to go to the day part of the visual arts festival and tonight go back for another, hopefully more exciting, show.