Going home?

As some of you may know, my finals were canceled (temporarily) due to concerns over H1N1 flu. With no reason to stay in Buenos Aires I tried to switch my ticket to come home early. As I still don't have a student visa and my tourist visa runs out on the 12th it would also be better to leave before my scheduled return date on the 14th. Anyway, with no available seats (aside from Business class seats for US$4000 extra) (Also, what kind of business would spend $4000 extra??!?) I'm stuck hanging out in the airport and trying to get on a flight flying standby. So I'm going to attempt to come home tomorrow but I'm very doubtful about my chances of getting on the single flight leaving tomorrow. If that doesn't work I can either plead with a governement official for an extension, pay a 300 peso (about 75dollar) fine, or go to Uruguay for the day (about 65 dollars for the boat trip)... Either way I'd really like to go home a little early to have some extra time in Illinois before I start my second semester. That said, Buenos Aires is definitely not a bad city to be stuck in. There is the flu epidemic, but I'm trying to be more higenic and I feel like if I take precautions it's nothing to be to lose sleep over.