Graduation day!

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soo we are done with class, so no more boring posts about class. we had about an hour of hanging out in class, talking to Jonatan (who i have since friended on Facebook) then we had to give our presenation on the conflict, which went awesome by the way. the presentation immediately before us was about wine, so we all got samples, and luckily there were a few left over at the end, so me and mike had a few extra styrofoam cups of wine to calm the nerves before/during the presentation. we rocked it, i did my normal make it up as i go talky-talk bit, Claudia seemed satisfied that i wasnt reading off the slides (though it was ok for mike to do so) and still manage to be articulate with my spanish. again this whole class situation reminds me very much of middleschool, it is about the same level of spanish on my part, and then the presentation and lectures were about the same as that (similar topics as well)

after this was the fantastic graduation ceremony, we were handed our "diplomas" and grades, i did ok? im still not sure how that rubric worked, but i got like a B maybe? then we got to eat food, various types of empenadas (including a cheese and fig empenada that was not very good), luncheon meats, including liverwurst, or whatever it is called here, i spread that on some buns, and ate prolly half of the liverwurst while elliot (the other undergrad-graduee) ate the other half.

we headed to a bar to watch more Olympics, much of the group went to a pirate bar accross the street from the irish bar our friends got their shit stolen from. i and a few others however, went to the irish bar, which was cool, cause it was pretty much the 5 of us, and the bar owner who let us watch whichever channel we wanted of the Olympics. we ent up watching field hockey, and basketball highlights.

mike and i made it home for dinner and chatted with our homestay guy and his girlfriend, and went out to a bar we had tried to get into earlier on the trip but had a group that was too large. 6 of us made our way over there, and went upstairs to sit down, running into a group of 3 girls from our trip in the process. they were dirnking delicious raspberry mojitos, and having a grand ole time, i managed to steal a bunch of peanuts from them, as the waiter was taking forever to get to us. we had a beers and good laughs and an absurd amount of shelled peanuts.

we went home relatively early to prepare for our trek to Patagonia