River Relegated; Buenos Aires goes Nuts!

One of the most famous fútbol clubs in Buenos Aires, River Plate, was just relegated to Round B after a match with Belgrano Cordoba.
"River Plate, the record 33 times Argentine league champions, suffered their biggest humiliation ever with relegation to the second division for the first time.
River drew 1-1 with Belgrano of the Nacional B division in the second leg of a relegation-promotion playoff at the Monumental after a 2-0 defeat in the first leg in Cordoba on Wednesday.
Fans in the 60,000 plus crowd at the Monumental went wild with rage, throwing objects on to the pitch and some tried to climb over perimeter fencing to storm on to the field.
Players of both sides had to leave the pitch under protection of stewards while police used high power hoses to try to the rioting fans."

Fans were crying at the "end" of the game, a game that was stopped before the official ending thanks to the angry and upset fans. This is especially humiliating since Belgrano is a relatively unknown team in comparison to River, who is known as Los Millonarios, in reference to the expensive transfer of players from other clubs.

So what does this mean?





Violence, mass mayhem, destruction, fires, you name it. The River fans are very upset and things are suppose to get worse as the night goes on.

Iguazú Falls

I went to Iguazú Falls with a friend at least 2-3 weeks ago and here are some pictures. I have a ton more of these beautiful photos on my fb page. It was amazing and my first time seeing waterfalls up close. These falls have been compared to the Niagra Falls in the U.S./Canada in beauty. Definitely worth going.

Its already June...

I can't believe it. June already and then July, and then I am gone. I need more time; a year abroad would have been great but hindsight is a killer. Ths means that I have a bunch of papers and evaluations coming up: this week alone I have a final exam tomorrow, a parcial exam on Wednesday, and oral exam on Tuesday, regular homework for the tuesday class, 1 ten page paper due on the 22nd about arte/arquitectura to start, a 13-15 page paper to start on politics, a 4 page paper about argentine women to start...

I haven't had much time to write let alone know what I want to say. My friend sums it up the best in a porcion I borrowed from one of her posts:
" I haven't been writing, because I've felt like my ability to express myself has declined while the scope and depth of what I long to express continues to expand, to the extent where I'm standing at the edge of a chasm that widens and widens until it requires a great leap of faith to reach the other side without the necessary tools. I picture my thoughts and memories falling into this abyss, lost to the subconscious, leaving me paralyzed momentarily."

But at least somethings never change: my host mom is watching reruns of Law and Order on tv, a show that aires re-runs on Sundays tradicionally...