Weekend in Calos Paz

Whew so I haven´t written for a while and I am sorry for that!!! Last Monday my friend that I made here from Germany, Lena, came back to town from her trip to Chile, so we went to the airport to pick her up. Since she has been back Brooke and I have been busy doing stuff with her. Last Wednesday we took her to dance class with us as well. Also, Brooke just switched families last Thursday and is now not staying close to me. Its fine though as I have adopted her old host family as my family, and we still meet up with eachother all the time downtown.
It has been unberably hot here again as well, so we wanted to get out of the city for the weekend. Unfortunately, since Brooke had just switched families she couldnt come with us. Brooke´s old host family has a condo the town of Carlos Paz which is where I went sailing last time. We left friday after noon, the sky had finally started to cloud over as we drove on the interstate. It had rained the night before so the drive was a beautiful green drive through the hills of the sierras. When we got to Carloz paz we met up with a friend of my cousin Rebbe, who came with us, and went to the ¨Club Nautico de Cirdoba¨ which is the sailing club that her family belongs to located at the edge of the resevoir in Carlos Paz. The weather was wonderful; overcast, a little foggy, cool, the kind of weather that makes everything look green. We were about to sit down for a mate at the edge of the lake when a friend Fer, the one who had the sail boat, asked us if we wanted to go out. Why not? Soon we were on the boat out in the middle of the lake cruising around. The sky was a marvelous composition on dark and light clouds, and off in teh distance we saw a dark storm forming slowly over the mountains. The cool breeze put everybody in a reaxed mood, and we spent the time on the boat talking, and taking pictures, drinking Mate, and eating pasteries. It was proabably my favorite part of the weekend. So i have to be a little cheesey here, but honestly I was so happy to be there, I alsmost couldn´t believe how lucky I was, that I was able to have this experience, and meet these cool people. Fer and Simon taught us how to steer the boat a little, and so for time I became the captain. Something about how the lake wasn´t crowded eaither was so nice, usually there is so much boat traffic. Soon we had made it to the end of the resevoir where the water leaves under a dam. We saw the dam, and then tured around and started to head back to the club. By then the storm over the mountains started to come closer, and the clouds in the sky were darkening, but still all was calm, the winds just right, and we cruised on into the darkness as the sun behind the clouds sunk. Bieng on a boat at night is one of the coolest things ever!!! Especially from there because we got to watch all the lights in the city come on, and soon there was a mirror image of it in the black water before us. Finally we came to the club and had to lower the sails for the day. I felt like I was floesting when I climed form the boat onto the dock, and i knew that I would never forget that experience.
That night we were taken out dancing. after sailing we had a nice dinner all together at the condo, and then just hung out listened to music, and wrote in our journals for a while. Fianlly, at three in the morning we left the house to go dancing... we didnt get home until 5 30!
The next day we went sailing again, and then it was warm enough to go swimming. I also rhode a jet ski for the first time! Some friends who had one happened to be on the lake, and we took turns riding on the back. It was a lot of fun, but I still woudn´t ever buy a jet ski, and I still don´t like how loud they are.
After sailing we went to a little town called Alta Gracia where every year they have a festival of all the different diaspora groups of Cordoba. Each place has a stand that they serve traditional food out of and play traditional music. All the stands form one huge circle. I swear, I never though that so many people coul dfit in one place!! there were so many people! And any line you stood in there was a least a half an hour wait. We walked around and saw the food at each stand, adn then went to go look for a table. We ended up sitting at the Armenian stand, right next to their musicians and eating delicious meal. Differnt people from the crowd would come up and sing, and then anybody who wanted could come up and do the traditinal dances. I was impressed because the kids who were playing the music were all my age or younger, and a lot of the younger generation were the ones dancing. Finally, around two in the morning we left and drove back to the condo in Carlos Paz. We came home yesterday, and went to see Brooke downtown. I think this week will be a little more mellow, a lot of swimming, and dancing.
I hope all is well at home! I will try to upload some of the pictures of this weekend soon.