Tandil--full post coming soon

This weekend I went to Tandil with my family.  It's less than two hours away from Tres Arroyos.

 

Primavera

So, last week was primavera, or basically spring break.  Even though schools only gave one day off on Wednesday, everyone goes on vacation from Friday through Wednesday and they go to Claromeco.  Literally since the second day I got here and I started meeting people one of the questions they always asked me was, "Are you going to spring?" or Claromoco, or Primavera?   It's one of the major events that goes on around here and almost the whole town of Tres Arroyos relocates to Claromeco because most people own houses there or they rent a house there.  I went to Claromeco for one day and night because that weekend my host sister (who is fluent in English) was leaving for her exchange year in Arizona and we went to La Plata and Buenos Aires to take her to the airport.  Also that week I was really sick, I had laryngitis but I started to feel better and made it to Claromeco for  a night.

The beach towns here are really different than what I'm used to.  Claromeco seems really desolate, the houses are far apart from each other most of the roads are dirt except in the city center, roads go through the beach & cars are allowed to drive on the beach.  I stayed with one of Carolina's (my host sister who just left) friend's family in an apartment they own right next to their house.

Chuten is the name of Carolina's friend and his dad is an architect (like my host mom) who designed their Claromeco house and this apartment and in the summer they rent out the apartment.  This is their house:

and the street it's on:

So, this is what I did in claromeco.  Since I got there early and everyone was sleeping from going out every night before, Chuten gave me a walking tour around Claromeco because even though I'd been there once before I hadn't seen a lot.  Then we went to the house where some friends were staying, woke them up and ate with them.  Then we walked back to our house (by the lighthouse) then got ready to meet up again.  We took mate and croissants with us and walked to the park with his friends from the E.A.T.A school (farm school). 

We walked back to one of their houses which is downtown and three blocks from La Barre (the nightclub everyone goes to that's on the beach) to hang out a little.

From there we went to La Barre for the predance from about 8 to 9:30.  We went home for dinner, then around 12 went back to a friends house to hang out before going out again.  At around 3 we went to La Barre and it was packed.  It was the last night of Primavera and everyone has been partying hard for a whole week so the last night was pretty crazy.  It was really fun, I don't have any pictures from that point on really.  We were there until 6, and then walked home and watched the sunrise, ate breakfast at home and then went to sleep around 8:30.  Around 4pm we drove home and that was my Primavera.

Driving home the next day, this is the road that winds through the beach.

flamingos.