I am exhausted, truly and thoroughly exhausted. After eating dinner at about midnight last night and waking up at eight to meet Ines (my coordinator), I spent all day out and about. First I took a 45 minute bus ride to Villa Allende (usually it's pronounced Viya Ayende but in Argentina the double L is more of a Vijja Ajjende) and visited the projects abroad office. Once there I was introduced to the other newly arrived volunteers: Hanny (from Germany) and William and Benjamin (from the US). Then we were hustled around Cordoba to get our cellphones, our calling cards, our maps, our instructions, and then (finally!) to eat.
Now I'm home and I've decided that if I'm going to maintain the whole stay up until midnight for dinner and wake up early for work thing I'm going to need a daily siesta, however given that I'm spending my siesta blogging and not sleeping I'm not sure how that's going to work out exactly.
Tomorrow I will start my placement. It's in Alta Cordoba(there are, to my knowledge, three areas: cordoba centro (where I live), nueva cordoba (where the partying takes place), and alta cordoba (where I will work)). Being the only volunteer there I will apparently have tons of freedom to do what I want (within the realms of taking care of babies) and I will only be working in the mornings (approximately 5 hours a day). Should I want to take a weekend trip I need only to work a full day the day before and then I can take a day off.
Ines has encouraged me to travel as much as possible. She says that I should even take a bus to Chile (only 100 pesos, so about 40odd dollars) or Montevideo in Uruguay which is about the same price. I'm mulling over my options...
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Chile, of course! :)
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