My first day of my trip to the South all we did was drive and drive and drive. All the kids from Mar Del Plata all got on a mini bus to meet up with the big Bus with everyone else on it. We boarded the bus at 2:00pm and met up with the other bus at around 6:00pm. From there we drove throughout the night. The bright side to this is that I really started to get to know the other 50 kids I was going to spend the next 10 days with. With how much time we spent on the bus, you got to know everyone really well. I don't think this would have happened if we weren't confined in a small space like we were on the bus.
One of the highlights of this trip was not all the amazing places we saw (don't get me wrong, that was awesome too!) but all the different people I got to meet from all over the world. There is not many places where you can have a conversation in Spanish, then a minute later one in English and then 5 minutes later one in French. It got to the point that if a person said half a sentence in Spanish, and the other half in English, it was something perfectly normal. I was even guilty of doing that, except with French and Spanish. It's also not every day where you get to learn how to say "I love you" in 7 different languages (including languages like Africans, German and Finnish).
This is the bus that I called home for the 10 days. This is the upstairs of the bus where all the exchange students hungout, talked and slept. There is also a downstairs but that was the adults part of the bus. I spent 4 nights sleeping on this bus as well as another almost 2 full days here.
This is exactly why I got to know all the other people on the bus so well. You can't even look out your window because all you see is never ending flatness for 95% of the bus ride. There is nothing else to do but watch movies and talk.
More never ending flatness.
Don't worry, my second day was MUCH more exciting!
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