The photos below sum up my birthday fairly well. There was alot of good food and even more importantly alot of good people. A lot of my friends never made the trip out to Murphy for the dinner but all went well anyways!

A couple days after the asado and theres still left overs.

The cake!

The friends.

More friends!

Making my wish

Dalila and me

Santi and Leo!

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Cheers to my first night of legal drinking (thanks to the low drinking age in Argentina) and our class party!

Rodrigo, Leo, Gise and me.

The girls dancing

Topo!!!Rodrigo, Leo, and me.

Every body in the photos above are my classmates! Last saturday there was a competition in the club to decide which school has the best sweatshirt this year. It´s a pretty fun event, you do things such as elect a member of the class to dance against kids from other schools. We may not have officially won but our sweatshirts are most definitly the most handsome!

It´s very hard to believe that I only have one month left in Argentina and surprisingly I´m sad. Theres nothing I want more than to see the family again but when I leave I may never see my Argentine friends again. Hopefully someday I´ll be able to return for a visit and my friends will be able to come visit me. **uciel cough cough**

My family here is doing well especially since its almost winter break which means in a couple days nobody in the family will be working or going to school. My first week of winter break will be spent going to Cordoba with my friend Hernan. I don´t understand why families here don´t travel together, maybe it´s just my family but they never plan family trips or vacations it´s always one or maybe two people in the family going somewhere alone, this completly contradicts what the volunteers said in the orientation camp. In Bs.As. before I met my family AFS said that argentine familys are big on going to places as a family and travelling alone is rare.

EDIT: I talked to my friend Uciel about my last paragraph and he said that what AFS told me in Bs.As. is wrong, for example he said that he only goes on a vacation once a year and sometimes that one time is without his parents.

The photos in this post are in reverse order from my trip. If your interested in going through them chronologically I suggest starting at the bottom.

Las Cataratas

The group getting ready to go under one of the falls.

The boat ahead of our group entering the waterfall

A monkey in the National Park of Iguazu, Missiones.

A shot of Las Cataratas from The Throat of the Devil

A shot of me at the "Throat of the Devil" Las Cataratas in the Nacional Park of Iguazu, Missiones.

The church one block away from our hotel in Salta.

From left to right, Bigge, Me, Mike, and Mckayla on top of a mountain overlooking Salta.

Me with a balloon given to me by little school kids dressed up as clowns in Salta.

Atop a little mound in Jujuy!

The gang in Humahuaca Jujuy.

Mike and I atop a little mound over looking Purmamarca Jujuy

Jujuy

Felix and I in Jujuy

Leo and Thibaeut In the flag muesuem of Jujuy.