Jumping right into UBP

Hey everyone! Happy Belated Woman's Day to all my female blog followers! Yesterday, Argentina celebrated it's annual Woman's Day and guess what? There's no such thing as Man's Day! Haha! From what I understood from my family, they only have Woman's Day to celebrate the rights that women now enjoy, such as voting. Men never went through discrimination like that, so they don't get their own special day :)

I'm so sorry it's been so long since I last wrote! I had my final exam for my intensive class on Thursday and I went to Buenos Aires with the group from Clemson this past weekend, so I stayed REALLY busy! I did well on my final exam though and got placed into the more advanced Spanish course! I'm taking the spanish language class I just mentioned, a spanish literature class, a beginner marketing class, a geography class, an argentine history class, an argentine culture class, and my tango class as my one cultural experience. I may end up dropping some of them though. Today was the first day of class. This morning I had my marketing class and this afternoon and I had my spanish languge and spanish literature class. I already took this beginner marketing class in Clemson, but I want to learn the terms and ideas of marketing in Spanish, so hopefully it won't be too hard and it'll work out! My marketing and geography classes are my only classes that are with argentine sudents. The others are made up of only exchange sudents. Speaking of, a few new exchange students arrived from Austria, Japan, Colombia, Germany, and Brazil this past week and are taking some classes with us. I'm excited to get to know them. I hope our group works hard to include them--we're all so close already because we've been here for a month, so the new students might feel out of the loop. I'm so glad I came a month before! My dad in Cordoba told me last night that he was really impressed at how much my Spanish has improved!

So, I went to Buenos Aires with the group from Clemson this weekend and we had a blast! We went on a lot of tours of museums and around the city, as well as taking a boat ride down a river in one of the beautiful suburbs! We also went to a tango show and it was incredible! A lot of what we saw I didn't see last summer, so that was good! I got to see 8 of my friends from summer project with Campus Crusade for Christ last summer, which I was really excited about! I want to go back to BA once the summer project for this summer get to BA in mid-May, because a lot of my friends from Clemson are going! I don't have any classes on Friday, so when I have a Monday off, I can spend my 4-day weekend in BA!

My friend Laura is in another study abroad program in Cordoba and they took their students to BA last weekend too! We had no idea that the other's group was there until we saw each other at the tango show! It caught me off-guard to say the least! Sunday morning, Laura and I had breakfast in a resturant in BA and then walked around the Obelisco, a very famus monument in BA, staying close to my hotel, and prayed. It was such a wonderful gift to have that Christian fellowship and group prayer with such a strong believer. I thank God so much for her.

I think that's it! Shoot me an email (bbagwel@clemson.edu) or catch me on skype if you want to talk!