October 12. I spent last Wednesday through Sunday in Cordoba the second biggest city in Argentina.
This is a picture of me in front of the Ca
ñada a famous canal which was right out front of our appartmen It was beautiful and clean. One thing I noticed is that there are no stop signs. The bigger road gets the right away but this does not always seem obvious. The big intersections do have traffic lights. There are also no speed limit signs in the city. As far as I can tell people go whatever speed they desire. there is alot of pedestrian traffic crossing streets. I am very careful crossing streets and I makes me nervous so it took some time for me to get the hang of it. I am not supper familiar with city life but this city is reminiscent of something you could find in the US. Plenty of high rise buildings.
There was a pretty big mall that was nice and very expensive.
Sofia and I got lazy one night and we got McDonalds for dinner in the mall. I was curious if the meat would be any different. It was.. it definitely tasted more like real ground beef.
I swear it was not right away that I ate the Mcdonalds I have eaten a lot of other foods like empanadas
,lomitos. choripan.
(which is their drunk food; it like a flat sausage sub that you get all kinds of peppers and good stuff, we got it from a food truck and here is a picture of me eating it with the view behind me.) Also I ate medialuna and factori which are for merienda and special to Cordoba They were like biscuits. I am still dying to eat asado which is their BBQ cookout..UPDATE I had asado for lunch today it wasn't BBQ but rather smoked meat. It was served and it traditionally eaten with french fried with eggs.
In the city I got an entire sub for 50 pesos ($3.25 usd) this sub was really good with plenty of toppings and cheese. that was probably the best value I have gotten so far. Also there has been a lot of homemade mayonnaise that were, honestly, really good. (I don't like mayonnaise probably because it was ruined for me as a child by taking a normal bite and getting a huge amount of mayo in my mouth.. people love it too much). A lot of the restaurants (everyone I've been to so far) has served some type of bread or crackers at arrival. When its bread it comes with their homemade mayo today with the asado it was garlic mayo so I pretended it was garlic sauce made with egg and oil. The things seem to be a little cheaper here especially going out to restaurants but things still add up. I am not nearly through my money as I counted today and still have over $1000. At an expensive restaurant for 2 people getting a entree and a beer ends up being about 550 pesos. Every 100 pesos I calculate to be around 6.50 usd. Their 100 peso bills are kinda like our 20 bills except they go through them quicker obviously. Overall, around 35 dollars for a 2 person dinner at a nice restaurant is pretty good. We went to see some of Sofia's friends perform at a restaurant called the "Rooftop". Surrounded by Spanish speakers I was embraced by the familiar English songs played by Sofia's friends. Not just a couple, but every single song was English. 90% of the songs I have heard here in general, whether be in stores or live, has been in English. It is crazy how universal a language is through its simplicity and domination of pop culture. On Sunday at 12 we left the apartment and took a bus north to Santiago del Estero. The bus was very comfortable and I would rate it high on my bus travel experiences. The bus ride was 6 hours and the all of it seemed to was farmlands or dessert and you could see very far.. As we got closer to Santiago I saw many shacks and small houses. People were outside gathered around a table from adults to kids. I wondered what would it would be like to live a life like that. One with probably no tv and only the company of your relatives not to mention hard days on a farm working.
This is a picture of me in front of the Cañada a famous canal which was right out front of our appartmen It was beautiful and clean. One thing I noticed is that there are no stop signs. The bigger road gets the right away but this does not always seem obvious. The big intersections do have traffic lights. There are also no speed limit signs in the city. As far as I can tell people go whatever speed they desire. there is alot of pedestrian traffic crossing streets. I am very careful crossing streets and I makes me nervous so it took some time for me to get the hang of it. I am not supper familiar with city life but this city is reminiscent of something you could find in the US. Plenty of high rise buildings. 
There was a pretty big mall that was nice and very expensive. 
Sofia and I got lazy one night and we got McDonalds for dinner in the mall. I was curious if the meat would be any different. It was.. it definitely tasted more like real ground beef. 
I swear it was not right away that I ate the Mcdonalds I have eaten a lot of other foods like empanadas 
,lomitos. choripan.
(which is their drunk food; it like a flat sausage sub that you get all kinds of peppers and good stuff, we got it from a food truck and here is a picture of me eating it with the view behind me.) Also I ate medialuna and factori which are for merienda and special to Cordoba They were like biscuits. I am still dying to eat asado which is their BBQ cookout..UPDATE I had asado for lunch today it wasn't BBQ but rather smoked meat. It was served and it traditionally eaten with french fried with eggs.
In the city I got an entire sub for 50 pesos ($3.25 usd) this sub was really good with plenty of toppings and cheese. that was probably the best value I have gotten so far. Also there has been a lot of homemade mayonnaise that were, honestly, really good. (I don't like mayonnaise probably because it was ruined for me as a child by taking a normal bite and getting a huge amount of mayo in my mouth.. people love it too much). A lot of the restaurants (everyone I've been to so far) has served some type of bread or crackers at arrival. When its bread it comes with their homemade mayo today with the asado it was garlic mayo so I pretended it was garlic sauce made with egg and oil. The things seem to be a little cheaper here especially going out to restaurants but things still add up. I am not nearly through my money as I counted today and still have over $1000. At an expensive restaurant for 2 people getting a entree and a beer ends up being about 550 pesos. Every 100 pesos I calculate to be around 6.50 usd. Their 100 peso bills are kinda like our 20 bills except they go through them quicker obviously. Overall, around 35 dollars for a 2 person dinner at a nice restaurant is pretty good. We went to see some of Sofia's friends perform at a restaurant called the "Rooftop". Surrounded by Spanish speakers I was embraced by the familiar English songs played by Sofia's friends. Not just a couple, but every single song was English. 90% of the songs I have heard here in general, whether be in stores or live, has been in English. It is crazy how universal a language is through its simplicity and domination of pop culture. On Sunday at 12 we left the apartment and took a bus north to Santiago del Estero. The bus was very comfortable and I would rate it high on my bus travel experiences. The bus ride was 6 hours and the all of it seemed to was farmlands or dessert and you could see very far.. As we got closer to Santiago I saw many shacks and small houses. People were outside gathered around a table from adults to kids. I wondered what would it would be like to live a life like that. One with probably no tv and only the company of your relatives not to mention hard days on a farm working. 
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