Craziness and cultura

One of the reasons for travelling this summer is to speed date Latin America. I think that I want to spend a year or two living somewhere and working in LA after I graduate, so I am spending a couple weeks in each of 5 countries and seeing who I like. As of now, Buenos Aires seems like the place I would enjoy the most. The week was filled with much wine and maté and exploring of the city. We went to the cemetery, a town of tombs creepily filled with hundreds of cats and saw the graves of past presidents and Evita. The highlight was going to a Boca Juniors game and sitting in the crazy hooligan section. I have never been to anything that even comes close to this experience. Flags, smoke, flares...chaos surrounded us. I hadnt seen a goal in all of the three previous soccer games I had been to and Boca won 6-2. It was awesome. Chad got felt up by someone trying to pickpocket him, someone slapped me in the side of head, and Catherine and Brittany P(who joined us for a few days from Uruguay) got lots of comments and attempted pickups. The singing and cheering never stopped, shoving broke out in the second half, and we could barely see the game for all the flags being waved and smoke in the air. It was great. Other things we did besides seeing most of the famous sights were watch a tango performance on the street (which Catherine took part in mostly against her will), went to an antiques street market, and along with a few thousand others, went to a professional drum circle in a warehouse one night. Chad and I parted ways with Catherine at the airport last night and then took a 17hr bus ride to Iguazu, where we will see the waterfalls tomorrow and then off to Brazil we go.