guita, chorros, pelotudos y quilombos

Every day I realize how much I don't know. I watched an Argentinian movie the other night with the Venezuelan fam (Mariana and her parents) and Mariana helped me with all the Argentinian slang. Which was a lot. But I started to use it in my vocabulary and have been realizing that I now have Mexican, Venezuelan, and Spain spanish all mixing around in my brain. I don't need to add Argentinian spanish as well, unless I go there...which who knows, I might. I highly recommend the movie we watched: Nueve Reinas (2000). It was remade into an American movie called Criminal (2004) with John C. Reilly, Diego Luna and Maggie Gyllenhaal but I liked the original much better, as is usually the case.

I was woken up this morning by a woman who works at Casa Árabe, where I am going to be taking arabic classes. I had signed up for beginning classes but I was told that since I already know the alphabet, I would be bored because that is what about half of Level 1 consists of. So she signed me up for Level 2, which means I need to study, and quickly. I learned the alphabet last summer, and have my arabic notebook with me, but it has been awhile and I am out of practice. Learning a 3rd language in my 2nd language might prove to be a challenge as well...

Mariana's parents sleep more than I have ever seen parents sleep. We went to bed around midnight and it is noon and they are still asleep. I bet you they won't wake up until around 1:30pm. It's crazy, how can anyone sleep that long on a consistent basis?