by foot.

One thing I absolutely adore about Buenos Aires (and also cities in China! This is definitely a similarity between the two) is its pedestrian-ness. Not necessarily in the sense of always yielding to pedestrians (since that isn't quite the case), but more so in the sense that I can walk essentially anywhere within a relatively short amount of time (less than half an hour, which is pretty short to me!). :D
I just love walking places. Anywhere I can, actually. (And for the times I can't, there's the bus or the subway, which each cost less than 1 U.S. dollar XD) And here in Buenos Aires, I can definitely take advantage of it! I walk to class every day (it only takes about 15 minutes), and after class, I walk home as well...from different places, too! Since we've been meeting at different places around the city for our culture class, haha.
It's also fun to walk around because I get to gaze up at all the beautiful architecture here :D more on that later. But it's so awesome. I try my best to walk down different streets after class every day, so by now, I've walked down most of the possible streets to get back to my house from the Fundacion XD I love seeing all the different shops (more on that later as well), as well as all of the other pedestrians (doggies, too! :D). As you may (or may not) know, Buenos Aires is filled with immigrants (and lots of them are students studying abroad such as myself), so it's definitely interesting to see all of the different faces here.
One thing I will really miss about living in Buenos Aires is, honestly, the ability to walk everywhere. Texas (at least Houston and Dallas) is completely the opposite. Everyone commutes...and it might just be me, but I prefer walking to car rides any day. :)



On another note, I went to visit the Yangs' (Maria, Gui, Fer) old house today! XD and your church, too. Just to look from the outside and take pictures. Your house is now divided between a door and a clothes shop =\ haha. Afterwards was asado for lunch! Mmm. But note to self: do NOT go to parrillas by myself again. WAY too much food for me :( I hate hate hate wasting food, but I couldn't finish a single thing (my morcilla or my asado) today! But it was yummy. :)
After class I had ice cream XD Mmm. But I had so much that I felt compelled to walk it off...for an hour XD (only on AVENUES, mind you!) It was totally safe and well-lit and populated :) Haha.
Hence this post!