Matt
Fayetteville, AR to Argentina

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I have alot of stories to tell ya. School is good, but still boring, I can  understand when the teachers talk to me personally but when we are having discussion I don't understand  all of it, I guess i don't give all my attention to the topic. But its amazing these last couple of  days my spanish has picked up alot, took me off gaurd.

I went to the mountains this past weekend, very  beautiful. But its the off season for this tourist town so there were not that many people there. We  hiked up this mountain its was great, but the altitude killed me.

 Here is a story about my hair. I  went into a barbra shop, to get my hair trimed. Some friends and I needed a hair cut. The guy asked  me what I wanted I told him that I wanted a little of the top and the sides, the same lenghth  all around. Well what turned out was not what i said, He just started chopping away, butchering my
curls left and right, leaving me with my side real short and the top long. My friends started  laughing at my, i was like whats so funny and I saw this curly bush on the back of my head, the guy cut  my hair into a mullet. I was like cut that crap off my head. He said no te gusta, i was  like nooooooooo. no me gusta, no quierro. And then he started talking to my friends about how he  thought I liked how he cut my friends hair.(the thing down here is mullets, so 15 years  ago). Well my hair
still looks like crap but I don't care, Im an exchange student!!!! It was a  wild experience.

Another wild experience is, at school i was in the best english class for a  week, but the teacher thought of a brilliant idea and put me in a class with 8 year old  kids, (no lie) im sitting in these small chairs using a small desk, all for a little more  spanish. And its really me teaching the teacher how to speak english so its a waste but its all  good.

 In about two weeks rotary is taking a trip to the south of argentina, oh man, im going to  patagonia i can't wait, its going to be awesome, im an international camper now haha.

i have more but can't remeber all later
matt
 

 Mine was ok, my weekend was boring but I have some funny stories. On friday  i did nothing, pretty lame. It felt like another wasted fayetteville night. but on saturday night I did nothing also, but...

a funny story, I was at an argentina resturant, where they serve empanadas (oh the best). but anyways at the, during the main course they surved us fries with eggs in them, its was very unusual, so i tried it and it tasted as what it looked. but another story is for desert they served a typical argentine dish, which i thought was going to be orginal, but it wasn't, i was like this looks like scrambled eggs, and
when i tasted it, tasted like eggs and syrup, just like at IHOP, the last bite you would take from your eggs with all the syurp mixed with it. Im talking this was so distinct, you could blind fold me and  i would call it out, ihop eggs.

 but anyways for some of yous out there is going to think its funny (you know who you are) and others well you spent your time reading a pointless email.
 

but anyways my first day  of school was monday. My school is so small. I have about 20 in my class, as in my grade. Everybody is so disrespectful towards the teachers. I did nothing, I stared at the  wall, looked at side, listened to my music, read a book, a spanish course book. looked up, looked down. slept. looked outside somemore

  pretty pointless untill i can understand the language alittle better.  I can understanding the big idea, but not details. so i zone out which is bad, but im ADD so im the best at it.

 the best part of the day was when my chem teacher started cussing at me in english it was so funny, because she didn't know what she was talking about and she was saying everything wrong. but we joked back and forth for a while, we didn't get anything done durning that class. well thats what it constist of.
im out
chau
 matt