Arrival in Goya

Sooo we´ve arrived in Goya on Tuesday of this week. It was a pretty uneventful trip except for the arrival in Goya at 6:30am.... Although all the taxi drivers were pestering us to take a ride with them straight out of the bus, we decided it would be best to wait a little to not wake the senora up tooo early. Anyways, so we end up taking a taxi after awkwardly waiting around for 30 minutes outside in the dark. As we are driving away from the city we were supposed to be living in I start doubting the directions I had given the taxi driver... turns out instead of giving the taxi driver the directions to the senora´s house I had the directions to the farm!!! Arg I was so sure that the reason why the senora didn´t give us additional directions to her house was because the directions on the website were the ones that we needed to get to her place.... Typical Saraism haha I guess it’s my fault for not asking. So we end up out in the middle of nowhere and the taxi driver is like ¨ok here is your stop¨. Hahaha Luckily I decide to call the senora before we let the taxi go and she helps us get to the right address. Sooo glad cause we would have been stranded!!!

 The senora´s house here in Goya is pretty sweet! She says she designed it on her own. And you can tell it’s really unique in its design. Kinda reminds me of Mediterranean houses with the white walls and blue windows. The only problem is that there is no isolation... so it’s always freeeezing inside (actually a lot of the times it’s warmer outside then inside). It’s funny though, I always thought the temperatures in this part of Argentina would be a lot colder than they actually are. It already feels like a nice warm spring day and it’s still winter here! It’s pretty sweet! Much better for farm work! Apparently, it gets really hot here in the summer: above 100 degrees Fahrenheit every day. The landscape does look pretty dry … I guess that would explain why.

 In terms of cultural differences I´ve noticed here… People here seem really open. I do feel like people are a lot more genuine here in the country compared to the city and do not think too much about acting in a culturally sensitive way …. Which can be good and bad haha. I feel like they are a little more reticent talking to strangers. It would make sense since they probably don´t interact with that many strangers in their day to day lives. I guess that makes us extra special! I also feel like I have to be careful with how I act cause it could easily be generalized to the whole American population…. Kinda funny cause I’m not even truly American!

 We are living with this family: the senora who used to be an art and theater teacher and who is now living her passion of constructing a farm based in the ideas of permaculture, her husband who is a lawyer. Their grandson who loves all types of sports especially basketball, and her son who is also passionate about permaculture. I´m still not sure what to make of them. We´ve had a very different welcome here compared to in Buenos Aires. This family is really close, really loud and really passionate about what they do. Part of me really admires the openness and love they all share between each other but at the same time Justina and I both feel weird as how we fit in with the whole family… we feel somewhat like strangers in their house.

Learning more about permaculture is fascinating! I love the ideology. It’s a whole new way of thinking and very eye opening. (Ill blog more about it later when I know more about it)

 Yay! My first official post! Sarah