Fin de semana

It's Sunday and I'm extremely tired (estoy muy cansado) as I write this. My weekend started Thursday and essentially finished this morning at about 8am. Now, I have a bunch of spanish to study and an early night ahead of me. But let me recap some of the highlights:

Thursday night: Met up with an Argentine friend of mine (Diego) and a couple of his friends and went out to a club (see last entry).

Friday night: Met up with a different Argentine friend (Ramiro) and his friends for a night on the town. I met Ramiro on the plane on the way back from Toronto. It's one of those random encounters that proves to be so great - he's been an excellent friend to me since I arrived here. In the picture above, the back row is two of Ramiro's friends (Jonathan and Damien) and Ramiro is in the front row.

On Friday night (see pictures) and we went clubbing in downtown Buenos Aires. When he originally called me, I assumed we were going out at 10 or 11 o'clock, but no, we actually arrived at the club at shortly after 2:30 am. After a couple of rounds of drinks we proceeded to dance the night away until about 7:30 am.

I stayed over at Ramiro's house in Pilar - which is a suburb outside of Buenos Aires. He lived in one of the nicest houses I've ever seen in an extremely exclusive community. I've attached one picture of his dining room / bar. Apparently his dad is quite the hunting afficionado!

Anyway, we slept till about 4pm and then had breakfast(!) and did some shopping. Ramiro also let me drive his Land Rover which was very cool. I arrived back to my residence at around 9pm to join our exchange student party that was just getting started. We had upwards of 40 people here last night and, with it being too cold to use the rooftop terrace, let me tell you this place was very crowded! Anyway, we departed to the club by around 2am, and finally called it a night around 7 this morning.

Needless to say, I'm feeling exceptionally run down now. I think it's a special breed of people (argentines?!) who can do this on a regular basis, but, for me, I'll be taking it easy for the next few days... That is, at least until the next fin de semana (weekend!). chau.