Semana Internacional

The students at la Universidad de Montevideo got to experience the first ever International Week which took place this past Wednesday through Friday. A few of the international students participated by giving presentations on their home countries and universities. Honestly, I had class during both days of presentations so I can't really say too much about them though I was able to see a little bit of the Powerpoint slideshow by our Canadian students before I had to scoot to class. However, I did hear good things about these charlas from the domestic students who attended. I'll take their word for it.

Then on Friday we had everyone come together to eat food and play games from their respective countries. Unfortunately, this day didn't incite much participation and only three countries were represented. I'd like to think it was something about the event taking place in the evening on a Friday, but who knows. The uruguayans loved this day the most though. They were able to build a true mexican piñata thanks to Saira, enjoy an apple and grape strudel made by Nina from Germany, and dive into a marble cake decorated with M&Ms embedded in the frosting, chocolate chips cookies, and sugary sweet tea straight from the southern part of the States thanks to Sunny and me. I admit I only did the tea. My reasoning is this: I can barely cook a decent meal for myself yet alone a savory dish representative of my own country. Plus, the people needed something to drink. So, really I was thinking of the group as a whole with my decision to stick to beverage making. You're welcome.

In other news, more pictures have been added to the Picasa web albums if you haven't checked it out recently. They all still aren't up yet because my USB likes to says its full when its not

A Video

I just happened upon an informative video about Uruguay. By the way, the manner in which he says 'Uruguay', 'Montevideo' and 'Buenos Aires' drove me craazy. :P Disfruten!

Vete, Santa Rosa!

Santa Rosa would be the current rain storm our region of South America has been experiencing for four days now. Today I'm just staying in the apartment because it's just not fun outside. Though a good story did come out of all of this. Analia came in soaked two days ago and I asked her where was her umbrella. She proceeds to curse about how the wind was blowing her umbrella around till she said screw it and got completely soaked walking home from work umbrella-less. Probrecita!

Forunately, staying in yesterday and today has given me time to upload pictures. How exciting! Months after being here I finally am able to post pictures online for all you out there to see. Much organizing and many more pictures need to be added, but to put a better visual to my experience down here I present to you: Casey's Picasa Web Albums.

There are pictures from the Colonia trip a few weeks ago. We mostly just walked around and hung out, but it was a great time. By the way, it was freezing when we went. Don't let the pictures fool you. Then one day I went for a walk and managed to walk ALL the way to the port, from Artigas mind you, and barely catch a sunset. It was kind of foolish for me to do that seeing as how Ciudad Vieja is very dangerous at night, but you'll see I took the rambla route and managed to snap a few more cool pictures. And then, in Spanish class we had a day where an instructor came in and taught us the basic steps of tango and the same day I told Analia about it and she practiced with me in the apartment.

So, there. All about my new online photo albums and unblogged moments in one paragraph. Someone referred to my blogs as novels, so I'm trying to stop being so wordy. Enjoy the albums!