Farewell new friends

fHockey+ Soccer
Last week we played hockey and soccer for the last time in  Argentina, because we are going for 3 weeks to see the northwest part of this big country. First to Cordoba, the 2nd largest city, then to Villa Union (a place in the middle of nowhere), Tinogasta (to find a school friend of my parents) and mostly Salta near the Andes mountains. It was a fun 2 months in Buenos Aires and hockey-wise I learned many skills and Steven learned to control the ball even better. My new hockey friends were very kind. They gave me many hugs and kisses and they made me walk through their own 'goodbye-arch' made of hockey sticks. They also gave me a small mascot and a batch to remember the Hockey Club San Telmo. It was a little statue of a girl with a hockey stick wearing the colors of San Telmo Club. I am glad I received their Facebook names so we can chat in Spanish.We had a surprise for Steven, because he did so well in soccer he got a ticket to go to a local soccer game with my dad.


Tango lessons
In beginning of February I (finally) started  real Tango lessons.
The Tango is a difficult and serious dance to learnb. I took 2 weeks to learn the basic steps and now I can do even turning and spinning.... See the movie clip from a week ago with my 'partner'. A lot of people tell me that I need to have life experience to do the tango, because I can then also  have the right (serious and sad) look in my face. There are a group of people with partners and they are taught by a maestra (female teacher) and a maestro (male teacher). They stand in the middle of the class and do the steps and then you will follow individually and then with your partner. There are different kinds of tango-music; there is slow and sad, but there is also quick and happy. The slow and sad one I started in the beginning of February, but now since a few days, I can do the fast and happy tango steps.YAAAY !!

           Buses - Collectivo 
In Buenos Aires, the public transport is very good. There are many buses going around and you never have to wait longer then five minutes. There is a bus stop at every street. There are many people going with the bus to work and children going to school. You have to pay coins in a machine for a bus trip that will cost 1.20 pesos (R2.40). But the government made debit cards so there is no time lost at the bus stops for people having to pay cash. This card is named "Sube-card" and you fill them up in shops and then you hold it against a machine in the bus that will automatically take 1.20 pesos off. We mostly took Collectivo #17 between Recoleta and San Telmo. Ones when Steven went to soccer he was the only one in the the bus with a lady that was about to give birth. When I went home from hockey the bus was always full with Portenos and we one night had all of a sudden a small accident. The streets are narrow and the buses big and when the bus stopped at the side of the road to pick up more people, the bus driver hit a car which he didn't see. The car had a lot of damage.So we had to wait for at least a half hour to drive on again.

Thank you those who have left comments last week!!
Gracias Esteban, Germaine, Gaap y Louisa