Buenos Aires, Argentina

Spanish day 2 – counting, time, occupations and more verbs. Head is really trying hard to make sense of it. Grabbed a few empanadas for lunch as I am going back down to La Boca neighbourhood for the afternoon. The school organises a few social activities each week and I quite liked the sound of this tour. It is with a local guy and promises to show you beyond the usual touristy street of Caminito. First adventure is getting there, and taking a bus. It is actually much easier than it looked, you tell the driver where you want to go and then put your Sube card on the machine, bit like an Oyster card. We meet the guide down near the port and spend about 3 hours in the neighbourhood. I learnt this was where the port was located originally, and was key for the Spanish to move extracted silver from the mines near Lima back to Spain as it was largely downhill, thus quicker. I was also impressed with how much the football club influences the area. It is known worldwide, but has membership rather than an owner. Once you have been president of the club, you are eligible to run for mayor, and then president of the country (as the current president history demonstrates). The club also runs support centres for the community, woman and children. They also fund the fire service facilities, which we saw and chatted to the bomberos. It was great to be out in the sunshine, enjoying stories about the area and meeting more students from the school. Faye lost her sube card and missed the bus back, so I hopped off to help her. Would like to think someone would have done the same for me if I got stuck. 25degrees & sunny