Day 5 of the South trip

Again, I'll let the pictures do the talking:

Ohh Canada!..... Wait…. What is the South African doing there?  

An international hug

As the Rotarians put it: All friendships made here are

one step further towards global acceptance.

Glad to finally be in the mountains again...

even if it was just for a brief period of time 

Definitely one of natures most amazing sounds

Amazingly Beautiful 

Trees! That are not Palm trees! 

Ice breaking off and falling into the lake

Hanging out by a lake before dinner

Group shot! 

Day 4 of the South Trip

I'll just let the pictures do the talking. Words wouldn't do the day justice anyway. 

For Argentineans, there is always enough time for a coffee break.

Did I mention there is a lot I like about the Argentinean lifestyle? 

Our trusty boat that took us to the glacier

the Canadians 

The South African: Velum (Left), me (middle), Canada: Kristen (right)

South African, American and me

The Glacier we would later be walking on!

This piece of ice floating in the lake is about the height of a two story house

The part of the glacier that is above water is about 3 and a half 

stories high. 

Our trusty guides

Spikes we wore on our shoes to go glacier walking

Me and the other Canadian Kenndall

On the glacier! I turned out to be a very good glacier walker.

The guide said it must be the Canadian in me.

Our guide

Walking on the glacier was definitely I sight to behold.

It is also something I will never forget.

Kind of weird seeing all of that ice and walking on it

when it's 18 degrees out

Something that I made for the glacier to remember me by

Group shot on the glacier. Notice that we're all girls

except one very lucky Danish guy.

Day 3 of the South Trip

Today we got up bright and early and had a normal Argentinean breakfast including a variety of pastries (croissants, toast, scones, cookies, ect), coffee and juice. Afterwards, we were left on our own for 2 hours in which time we had to find something to take on the bus with us to eat for lunch. We would be driving for most of the day. What the other exchange students and I found interesting with this is that back in most of our countries, the exchange students are very looked after and sheltered. Here, they expect you to be independent and work out a lot of stuff out for yourself. And so that’s what we did. Four other exchange students and I wondered around asking people if they knew if there was a grocery store close by until a very nice guy gave us directions to one.

            I guy names Andrew from the U.S. (who I already knew before the trip because he lives in my city) split groceries together. On our way out, the security guard asked us where we were from. I guess it’s not surprising that he found out that we were foreigners because there was 30 odd exchange students in the store all speaking in very strange spanish accents. Or it might have been the fact that Andrew is a VERY tall guy with blue eyes and blond hair… Either way, when we started listing off the places we were from, the look on his face grew more and more shocked with every country we listed. It kind of made my day haha!

            We then spent most of the day driving until finally, we got to the penguin sanctuary! I have keeping a bucket list since I was 12 and one of the things on it was to see a penguin! And I did! Hundreds of them! As well and wild llamas… who just so happened to be hanging out with the penguins! It was so cool!

The llamas hanging out with the penguins

Me all of a foot away from a penguin

All of those black dots? Yup, they're penguins

The Mar Del Plata exchange students 

I'M BACK!

Sorry for not updating sooner! Computer troubles! But they're (mostly) fixed now! Hope you enjoy my new posts!

Blog: On Hold

So for some reason my computer isn't letting me download the pictures I took off of my camera. I'm going to try to fix it by tomorrow but I don't know if I will be able to. I will update my blog as soon as possible. Sorry!