This past weekend the entire CCCS group (CCCS is the program I am studying through) took a trip to San Rafael, Mendoza. It was only for the weekend, but served as a very fun and needed break from school. The coolest part was that everything was already paid for. Again, I finally feel somewhat satisfied about my tuition money. Atleast I am paying for fun stuff and great meals oppose to a really expensive and crappy, uncooked meal in the CAFE.
We all boarded a big coach bus Friday night. We drove through the night. We played games, sang songs, and watched the movie "The Bucket List" on the trip. Some people slept a little bit, but not me.
We arrived around 9 or 10 in the morning and went straight to Rafting. It was a beautiful day outside, but the water is always freezing in the mountains. We all dressed in clothing that we didn`t care if it got wet. Over our clothing we wore water pants, a water jacket, and a life vest.
We boarded 5 different boats or rafts and set out down El Rio Atuel. My team was the best beacause we finished first and probably had the most fun. Our team name was Los tiburones (The Sharks). We had the most pride with our chants. ¿Que somos?...¡Tiburones! (What are we?...Sharks). We also liked to jump around a lot as we chanted, so we came up with...¡Yo quiero mover el bote! (I want to move the boat). We worked real well together as a team. We bumped into the other boats on purpose quite frequently and splashed them with water. However, we got soaked also because everybody retaliated against us. The water was freezing cold, but we survived. Unfortuanatly I do not have photos from rafting for obvious reasons. After rafting, we all changed clothes and had an asado.
After lunch we took the coach bus to our next event. We did activities of rappel y tirolesa (Ziplining). I did not think twice about these activiites, but others had a little bit of fear climbing down the side of a mountain, and sliding across the sky holding onto a rope. I was one of the first ones to go. Rapelling was a lot more fun than Ziplining. The ziplining was not very steep. Either way, these events were pretty sweet. It was even fun to climb up to where we had to rapel from.
Next we went to our hotel, where I shared a room with my tutor Pancho. We each took showers and went walking around the city. Later we had dinner, and after dinner a large group of us went to a boliche called "La Zona". It was a lot of fun as there was a live band that played. We returned to the hotel around 4. We got about three hours of sleep before we woke up, checked out of the hotel and went to our next activity.
We took the bus to a bodega (winery). We received a tour of how they make wine and even got to try some. The wine was very tasty.
After that, we boarded the bus to leave...BUT WAIT... We couldn´t get out of the parking lot because the bus was too low to the ground. Everybody got out, but the bus still couldn`t get out. The sidewalk was elevated a little bit so the bottom of the bus kept touching the ground and getting stuck. This was quite hiliarious.
Due to this inconvenience, we decided to do a little bit of landscaping for the bodega. We took shovels and dug up the garden, stole some sticks and logs from across the road, and even took a hammer to the beautiful brick boarder around the garden. We used all of our materials to build a ramp. After many trys and an hour later, the bus drove up our man made ramp and made it out of the parking lot. Did we bother to clean up our mess, NO. We left the beautiful new landscape for the owners of the bodega.
Finally we boarded the bus, stopped for lunch, and headed back to Cordoba. We arrived at the University around 2am. Me being as cheap as I am, was contemplating walking home because I did not want to pay for a taxi or wait for a bus. Suddenly, a car drove by and yelled "BRIAN". It was my host brother Jero and his friends. Que suerte (lucky). I got a ride home and went to sleep.
There`s my trip!! Nice and short huh??
We all boarded a big coach bus Friday night. We drove through the night. We played games, sang songs, and watched the movie "The Bucket List" on the trip. Some people slept a little bit, but not me.
We arrived around 9 or 10 in the morning and went straight to Rafting. It was a beautiful day outside, but the water is always freezing in the mountains. We all dressed in clothing that we didn`t care if it got wet. Over our clothing we wore water pants, a water jacket, and a life vest.
We boarded 5 different boats or rafts and set out down El Rio Atuel. My team was the best beacause we finished first and probably had the most fun. Our team name was Los tiburones (The Sharks). We had the most pride with our chants. ¿Que somos?...¡Tiburones! (What are we?...Sharks). We also liked to jump around a lot as we chanted, so we came up with...¡Yo quiero mover el bote! (I want to move the boat). We worked real well together as a team. We bumped into the other boats on purpose quite frequently and splashed them with water. However, we got soaked also because everybody retaliated against us. The water was freezing cold, but we survived. Unfortuanatly I do not have photos from rafting for obvious reasons. After rafting, we all changed clothes and had an asado.
After lunch we took the coach bus to our next event. We did activities of rappel y tirolesa (Ziplining). I did not think twice about these activiites, but others had a little bit of fear climbing down the side of a mountain, and sliding across the sky holding onto a rope. I was one of the first ones to go. Rapelling was a lot more fun than Ziplining. The ziplining was not very steep. Either way, these events were pretty sweet. It was even fun to climb up to where we had to rapel from.
Next we went to our hotel, where I shared a room with my tutor Pancho. We each took showers and went walking around the city. Later we had dinner, and after dinner a large group of us went to a boliche called "La Zona". It was a lot of fun as there was a live band that played. We returned to the hotel around 4. We got about three hours of sleep before we woke up, checked out of the hotel and went to our next activity.
We took the bus to a bodega (winery). We received a tour of how they make wine and even got to try some. The wine was very tasty.
After that, we boarded the bus to leave...BUT WAIT... We couldn´t get out of the parking lot because the bus was too low to the ground. Everybody got out, but the bus still couldn`t get out. The sidewalk was elevated a little bit so the bottom of the bus kept touching the ground and getting stuck. This was quite hiliarious.
Due to this inconvenience, we decided to do a little bit of landscaping for the bodega. We took shovels and dug up the garden, stole some sticks and logs from across the road, and even took a hammer to the beautiful brick boarder around the garden. We used all of our materials to build a ramp. After many trys and an hour later, the bus drove up our man made ramp and made it out of the parking lot. Did we bother to clean up our mess, NO. We left the beautiful new landscape for the owners of the bodega.
Finally we boarded the bus, stopped for lunch, and headed back to Cordoba. We arrived at the University around 2am. Me being as cheap as I am, was contemplating walking home because I did not want to pay for a taxi or wait for a bus. Suddenly, a car drove by and yelled "BRIAN". It was my host brother Jero and his friends. Que suerte (lucky). I got a ride home and went to sleep.
There`s my trip!! Nice and short huh??
1 comment:
Sounds like you had fun! I miss your cheap self! I seriously laugh to myself every time I read your blog...it is so you and makes me miss you! Keep having fun! :)
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