¿Cómo...¿sos?!

Today was a day to get acquainted with our new schedules. This morning Zulema made me coffee and breakfast and we left the apartment a little before 9:00. We went to the kiosko on the corner to buy some cospeles, which are the tokens you need in order to get on the bus. It was a little confusing because there are multiple buses I can take. Also, they don't call buses los autobuses here, but instead los colectivos. Once we got to the campus Zulema walked me to Casa Verde, the university building that houses the program office and where my classes will be, and I met up with all of the other UT students. In the morning we had our extracurricular orientation and found out that we meet our speaking partners Friday evening! We all had lunch at a place near campus; of course it was three courses with the main dish being none other than a huge steak. The other half of today's orientation was our Spanish orientation, which was a two hour class to help familiarize us with differences in Argentine Spanish and the Spanish we've been taught. Mostly, how to use the "vos" instead of the "tú" form. It's not necessarily difficult, it's just different and something I haven't practiced. It will definitely take getting used to - I'm pretty sure my brain was a little overloaded when I left. Since it was my first day Zulema came to pick me up and we came back and had tea and hung out at home. Dinner conversation was much better today; I felt that it was slightly less one way than yesterday's meals. Today on our way back Zulema told me that she hosted an Australian student who didn't talk and didn't talk for a while in the beginning, but by the end of her stay she couldn't get her to stop talking in Spanish. So I told Zulema that hopefully after the next five and a half weeks that will be me!