Day 99 - Today after a brief stroll about town in the morning I went back to my room, still feeling a little ropey, and found that my flip flops were missing. Stink. Therefore I needed to go buy some newbies. There was also a new guy in my room called Jude, great name. He was from down south but had gone to uni in sheffield. He was a good lad and came about town with me. Turns out we like a lot of the same things, bonus.

That evening Jude was going to go meet some girls that he’d gone to spanish school with and I was going to go but was still feeling very delicate. Instead we decided to go see the new Indiana Jones. Saturday night at the cinema, calm down, stop it. What a hardcore night. When you first get a glimpse of the man himself all the locals started clapping and cheering. I still don’t get the clapping in a cinema, even at the end of the film. Raro. The best bit was seeing the Iguazu falls… Who has been there?
Day 100 - Sunday = massive sleep to get over the illness. And then went for lunch/dinner with Jude. We then went around to the girl’s flat. They are two american girls called Eve and Steph. We just sat around chatting and having a couple of drinks. Then a couple of good films came on so we watched them. I was pretty glad to be honest because I didn’t fancy going out so soon after being ill. Somehow it still ended up being a late one.

Day 101 - Lunes (part of our joint learning). Basically today was a day dedicated to the español. I had my lessons in the afternoon and then when I was back atthe hostel I had a little nap to prepare myself for the super heroes themed party that evening. However it turns out I was tireder than I thought and I slept until 1.30am. I went down to the party then but didn’t last long as I was a little behind everyone else…

Day 102 - Martes. Today I met Marion, a friend of Jude’s who he’d met whilst volunteering in the favelas of Rio. Again the day was dedicated to aprendiendo español. However in the evening I finally manage to pull myslef together.

Jude and I plus the 3 girls went to a milonga, which is an old school tango hall. They have tango lessons in the early evenings plus show type things later. The place was pretty cool,. It was an old hall that looked like it was falling a part with furniture that looked like it had been cobbled together from a antique junk shop. The walls were covered in tango related pictures and other cool arty things. Hanging from the roof was a huge sculpted heart was was a little weird but cool all the same. I think it was suppose to represent the fact that tango is in the hearts of the people acá.

After the milonga we went to an Irish bar for a couple of drinks.

Day 103 - Today was a very important day in Buenos Aires, Boca Juniors had reached the semi finals of the champions league equivalent and everyone was preparing for the big game. We managed to get tickets ourselves which was good. Unfortunately there were playing in Racing’s ground due to their continuing punishment for bad fan behaviour. It took over 2 hours to make a ten minute journey before the game, ridiculous and not particularly fun when you have crammed 5 into a 4 man taxi…

The game itself was amazing and we were down in the terraces with the diehard fans. It was class. And if it wasn’t for a clanger from the keeper Boca would have beaten Fluminiese 2-1. 2 away goals was far more than they deserved. Boca could have won 4-1 if their finishing had been better…

After the game we had to wait in the bitter cold for over an hour until we could find a libre taxi. Thankfully once found we were back in the warmth of the hostel in less than 10 mins.

Day 104 - Jueves. We have started flying through the tenses in the spanish classes which is good because I will have all the theory when I go home so that I can continue it. Pretty hard though. There are more tenses in spanish than english…

That evening we went to a really cool bar called Le Bar. In this place the seats are sunk into the floor and generally it is a really cool arty place. We really did like this bar. It also served amazing cocktails (tragos). My tipple of choice was a kiwi, ice, ginger and vodka all whizzed up. Brilliant. Not only was it a nice drink it also helped with my 5 a day. One whole kiwi per drink…

We were also joined in the bar by Marion’s room mates, all of whom were Brazilian.

Day 105 - Viernes. Today we carried on apace with the learning. I do often get tired towards the end of lessons because it has been a long time since I had to engage my brain constantly for this extended period of time.

In the evening the american girls came around to the hostel where we drank before going to Sunset. Sunset is one of the biggest clubs in Buenos Aires and is where Maradona regularly goes. I don’t know why! I did have a good night but not because the place was good. Firstly it is mile away and takes a long time to get there. It is huge and must be hard to get it packed out, and finally the music wasn’t great… Still didn’t get back until 7am, but did find a new late night food place, selling empanadas and milanesas. Perfect and much better than the dodgy burger joint…

Day 106 - A slow start to the day was had. I think we surfaced around 1pm, which isn’t too bad considering the hour at which we returned. Feeling hungry but ropey we thought it would be good to go get some healthy food. Jude knew about this very nice all you can eat vegetarian restaurant. Just what the doctor ordered. We then went to she how the american girls were doing. I was suppose to go pick a few things up from the shops but instead I opted to nap on the girl’s sofas for a while. The vegetable intake shocked my body so I needed to rest…

That evening was a repeat of the night before with drinking at the hostel and then out to a club. This time the club in question was Pacha and it was amazing. Huge, packed and good music. Jude and I may have thrown some shapes on the dancing podiums…

Day 107 - Domingo. What a sad day today was. Jude left us to head up to Lima. We all wer devastated. We did cheer ourselves up by going to the San Telmo market and having a nice lunch. We then popped along to La Bombonera and got tickets for 24 pesos or 4 GBPs to Boca Vs Arsenal that evening. It was a great game with Boca winning 3-1 with a team mainly consisting of reserve players. Great watch.

Then Marion, Phillp and I returned to the hostel and watch a couple of films until the early hours. During this time I had to fend off the temptation to go out with this american guy Ryan trying to persuade me… I managed to stay at the hostel.