Soooo, here it goes. On December 26th I changed families so I spent New Years with a new host family. My new host family actually just consists of parents, they don't have any children. I really don't mind not having siblings though because I am free to come and go as I please. I can't say that New Years was
all that different but of course it did have it's differences. Around 10 we went to my host grandparents for dinner. We sat down to dinner at 11 and at precisely 12 we had champagne and then went outside to watch fireworks. Ahhh first, for dinner we had all kinds of delicious things. We had beef, pork, chicken, potatoes, typical argentine salads again, bread, and maybe some other things that I can't remember.
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| A delicious meal! |
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| My wonderful second host family! |
After the champagne toast it was time to set off fireworks and lanterns to welcome the New Year. This was really exciting and different for me because I had never done anything like it in Vermont (maybe because it's so cold on New Years!) The whole city was lit up and it was really a very cool site to see!
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| fireworks in the street! |
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| setting them off from our champagne bottle |
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| lighting the lantern |
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| letting the lantern fill with hot air |
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| almost ready! |
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| Happy New Year! |
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| setting off other fireworks |
After we finished setting off the fireworks we went inside for desert which was an ice cream bar. After that, I went to a New Year's Party with friends and didn't get picked up by my host parents until 8 a.m. because they were also celebrating with friends. I can easily say that is the latest I have ever been out but that is very normal in Argentina. It was a great night full of lots of new experiences with a lot of wonderful people. That's all I have to say about New Years! Next post: Brazil! Hang in there, I'll try to have it up today!
Chau, un beso grande!
