Touchdown

After a 20 hour flight I'm finally in Buenos Aires. A city of 13 million, this place is crazy. I'm staying at a big hostel called Milhouse which is great and has lots of activities to show people the city and hook up with other travellers.

Today we took a tour of the upper-crust part of town called Ricoleta. Home of the fanciest cemetary I've come across with lots of musoleums for the upper classes of BA. We made the obligatory visit to Eva Peron's tomb and our guide told us crazy stories how after Peron lost his 2nd term and fled to Spain, the government stole the embalmed body of Eva and hid it in different places to remove the symbol of the Peronistas. The body finally came back to Argentina from Italy when Peron returned in the 70's for his 3rd term.

After a checking out where the Spanish school I'm going to and a quick nap the hostel put on salsa lessons in the lobby which got crazy. The instructor, Jose Mas (Jose "More") was somehow able to get a room of sober travellers to shake their hips in ways which would make Diddy proud.

I think I've found the perfect cure of jet lag, which is to come to Latin America. With dinner starting at 11pm and constant partying, you don't get a chance to fall back to Sydney time and there's no choice but to acclimatise to local time.

Tomorrow is my first day of Spanish lessons, which will be good since everyone has been speaking to me in Spanish and it's a little embarrasing having to ask "hablas inglese?" all the time.

On a nerdy note, I stayed up till 3 watching the latest episode of Battlestar before I left Sydney... oh my god! How do they make television that good? I was a little worried they'd lost the momentum of the first series and were going down the religious path for the first half of the second series, but the military/personal tension is definitely back with this episode, and thank god. If you haven't seen it and can get past the fact it's in space and has evil robots, which is really not a bad thing, you should check it out.

Luego!