{"id":12485,"date":"2019-02-25T16:14:43","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T16:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/social.rollins.edu\/wpsites\/letters\/?p=12485"},"modified":"2019-07-25T19:40:40","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T19:40:40","slug":"no-hot-cheetos-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/2019\/02\/25\/no-hot-cheetos-here\/","title":{"rendered":"No Hot Cheetos Here&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you would have asked me how Buenos Aires was going three days ago, I would have responded with an \u201cit\u2019s alright\u201d. Buenos Aires is your typical big city but with horrendous sidewalks. The chip selection is nonexistent, there are probably 4 types of cereal options to choose from and people here love their carbs. I do not know how I will survive for the next five months without spicy foods but I&#8217;ve done it thus far and I can keep going.<\/p>\n<p>I was traumatized on how unsafe it may be in the city with horror stories of students being robbed at gunpoint during my first 24 hours here. With that being said, for the first couple of weeks, I trusted nobody and watched youtube videos in bed. After a lecture from my host mom after bolting the front door and windows intensely, she assured me that as long as I don\u2019t have my guard down I will be fine. There is so much to do in this city that it gets overwhelming at times. I wouldn\u2019t say that I am homesick but I am ready for another new environment and hope to travel to Chile soon.<\/p>\n<p>With time my experience here will be more positive but I am still adapting and learning every day on how things work around here. The semester has not started yet and won\u2019t start until March 6. I have finished my Spanish Intensive Month were I learned Argentinean slag and popular terms used by the locals. I am hoping once my course with the locals begins I will be able to feel more comfortable communicating\u00a0with them. For now, I need to accept the fact that it is okay not to be keen on a new environment. Now that the unbearable heat is slowly drifting away, I will be exploring more.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/51599122_2188074457915440_3780502876195913728_n-300x225.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-13476 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/51599122_2188074457915440_3780502876195913728_n-300x225-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>La Casa Rosada<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/51991436_2215298931859659_8115901439542296576_n-225x300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-13477 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/51991436_2215298931859659_8115901439542296576_n-225x300-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Looking for Evita Per\u00f3n in the Recoleta cemetery.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/52353326_2215298468526372_5245072615164346368_n-225x300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-13478 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/52353326_2215298468526372_5245072615164346368_n-225x300-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A piece of New York in Buenos Aires.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you would have asked me how Buenos Aires was going three days ago, I would have responded with an \u201cit\u2019s alright\u201d. 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The chip selection is nonexistent, there are probably 4 types of cereal options to choose from and people here love their carbs&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-argentina"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13479,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12485\/revisions\/13479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}