Since last week..Mati and I went to this great middle Eastern/Armenian restaurant called Sarkis on Wednesday night...it was absolutely scrumptious! They had all the traditional hummus/ tabule/ Baba ghanoush/grape leaves classics and then we had a Lamb and yogurt dish for an entree. SOOO GOOD. I wanna go again before I ship off.
I went to LIFE a few more times last week. On Thursday we went to the Ejercito Celestial and it was really great. I brought my camera and all the kids were all excited and took pictures of everyyything. (re facebook album). Thursday evening Mati and I went to his friend, Ruleman's house (his names actually Marcelo, but everyone has nicknames here). Anyway, he has a new house and it's really great and he made us steak and potatoes. yum. He also has a puppy (who's enormous) who I played with all evening.
Friday I was dinking around and Mati had gone to work. He calls me up and is like "come fore a ride and we can look at all the pretty houses in Devoto (there's a bunch of McMansions in this neighborhood). So I got to go for a spin in the cop-car! FUN. But then we are driving and start heading towards Mati's partner's house...mysterious. We get out, and his partner's (Gabriel) wife and kids come out to say 'hi'. Then they ask me in, and I assume that Mati and Gabriel would stay..but they peaced out and I spent the afternoon with Gabriel's wife, Yanil. It was actually really nice and we talked a bunch..she was making me these delicious little pastry things (her grandparents are Ukrainian...so it's some Ukrainian recipe). They have 4 kids (2 girls who are older (like 8 and 9) and 2 little boys (one is 1 and the other 3). The boy who is three, Martin, (or as he likes to be called, Messi) is the cutest-most-high-energy little 3-year-old there is. He would just go around screaming. When he first met me, he was shy and didn't want to talk...and then half-way through the afternoon, he was calling me "tia" (which means "aunt"). IT was adorable.
Anywho, I left Yanil's and got a ride back to the apartment in the copcar (Gaby and Mati swung by to pick me up)...then I headed to practice. I came home after practice just in time to watch the Argentina-Romania game...which was on at midnight. Argentina crushed them! Score. Saturday I cooked. Or I made a cake and a 7-layer dip. The cake was for Gaby and Yanil, because they lent Mati and I their car on Thursday night and to use Saturday night to drive to La Plata. So Saturday evening Mati and I drove to La Plata with the 7-layer-dip in hand. His family really like it...it was like nothing they'd ever had before and they thought it was just crazy and exotic. Which is funny, because we eat that for like a superbowl party.
We stayed in La Plata Saturday night and got up early to come back to BsAs because Mati and I both had games. We returned Gaby's car and then some of the Clementes picked us up and gave dropped me off at a club in BsAs (Centro naval). We won the first game, I scored a try, and it was all just dandy. Then in the second game, the ref was downright crazy...like, just dumb. He cin-binned me for a high tackle (which wasn't a high-tackle for the record)..so my time in that game was short-lived. We won, nonetheless, and this was the last game of the tournament..which we WON. granted I wasn't here for most of it, but the Panteras are officially champions of the developing women's league in Buenos Aires. Woot.
I came home from the game...conked out. And here I am. Big plans for today are to hopefully buy my bus ticket to Santiago. Yikes! 2 more weeks here!
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