Escarlatina/Scarlet Fever

As some of you may know, last year I suffered a bout of scarlet fever, which sounds bad, but is really an out of control strep infection (which can cause cardiac damage if not treat, i.e. after weeks). This week all of the same symptoms began to appear so I took a trip to the local public hospital. After waiting a nightmarish three hours and missing my name being called out twice (of course they switched my first and last names since no one has "Benjamín" as a last name and probably called out "nay-al" very quietly before skipping me) I finally went to a private doctor and for the nominal sum of about US$24 found out that I had a bad strep infection that was on its way to scarlet fever (already had the rash) which is what I knew all along. Nineteen hours of sleep and some amoxicilina later I feel more or less better. Now, if I could just magically have my 12 page paper on (still don't have the subject yet) AND were ready for my forage midterm retake AND had my oral presentation ready for my economics class, everything would be perfect. Thank God for mate/coffee/tee. At least they are finally putting up walls around my bed so I'll have a room soon (although 10pm seems a little late to be working on that, but beggers can't be choosers). Hopefully I'll load some pictures of my new house soon. Best Regards y un abrazo a todos.

Ok I finally did it

After living between a hostel and a friend's love-seat for the past ten days (not comfortable!) (after living with a host family the first four months) I finally moved into my very own room in a shared house today. Then after a nice very large cup of coffee I went on a crazy organization spree sorting through all my emails and doing everything on my to do list. Thus the creation of this blog. I used to be against blogging but I think it will be a good way to keep track of my adventures in South America.
My room is not really a room yet (I don't have walls yet), just a bed with dividers in a larger room which will be subdivided into a smaller room and hallway starting tomorrow. Anyway, life in Buenos Aires is great. I'm actually seriously considering going to vet school here now that my Spanish is improving to a level where that would be plausible. Hmmm, no tuition versus $100,000 dollars if I went to U of I... I really think the U.S. should provide free public tuition and professors should get paid less. I'm not sure how ever increasing student tuition fees which are increasing at an ever increasing rate are compatible with the ideals of the American Dream. Anyway get excited about reading periodic updates on my life in Buenos Aires and maybe even pictures.