Anyway, when the asado was finished a few hours later, the entire hostel gathered for a meal. There were plates upon plates of chicken and different cuts of meat. The chorizo con pan was my favorite! It’s beef sausage with a slice of bread. The thing about the asado was there were no marinades or sauces- everything is rubbed with salt and that’s it!
Today I met Matt for lunch. He’s from the IES program, and we met at that cheap pizza place I went to yesterday because it’s equidistant. After we ate, he walked with me to find the subte. There was no E line! We walked about twenty minutes until finally we found it. I bought a pass good for 10 rides, and then I looked at the map and realized I actually wanted the D line. Oops! That was easier to find, so we traced our steps, I hopped on, and Matt went back to his hostel.
The subte was pretty self-explanatory and not any different from any subway I’ve been on. When I got off, however, the fields were much farther than I thought. Eventually I found the field and met some people. I spoke half Spanish, half English. There was a girl from
Some people have irrational fears, but I have a very rational fear of the bus system here. It’s just so complicated and with my history, I can’t trust that I’ll get where I want to go! But at the end of pickup, I took the colectivo (bus) home with some people who were going in the same direction. I got off a stop earlier than they did, but I made it back in one piece! Public Transportation Success Number Two!
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