Campo

This past weekend we went to my host moms farm, San Pedro, which is about 1 1/2 hours away from Bahia Blanca. We left Saturday morning with Graciela, Carli, Juanma (Carli's friend), and me. We arrived at San Pedro, and honestly its beautiful! When we got there we ate some lunch, and I took a little stroll around to check things out. The people that work on the farm are super nice too. Gustavo does everything, his dad Roberto helps out to, and Gustavo has a wife and three kids, Enzo, Thomas, and Clarita. That evening we cooked an asado, and played soccer with the kids for a little while, and I hunted for the first time in my life. I thought I would hate hunting but actually it was really fun. Carli taught me how to use the gun and pointed out a bird I was supposed to shoot that was sitting on a telephone line. I aimed and shot, and guess what, I hit the bird in the head, exactly where your supposed to. No one coulf believe it. It was a proud moment. At around 12 we went fishing with Roberto which was really relaxing and me and him caught a fish together. We got back to the farm around 2 but instead of going to bed we decided to hunt. We drove around the farm for hours chasing random animals and shooting, it sounds pretty premitive, but who cares, it was so fun. At around 5 we went back to the farm house and ate some food, had a tea drinking session, and the boys went back to where we went fishing to pick up the traps they had set hours before for foxes. I took a shower, ate some breakfast, they boys got back and at around 7 we went to the coral for a big job that needed to be done that day. The job was to cut out the balls of all the baby boy cows, which, as you can assume, is kind of difficult. I mean think about getting your balls chopped off. We did that all morning with Graciela, Hugo, Gustavo, and Roberto. At two we ate lunch after a days work and took a well earned nap. When we woke up we went outside to play some soccer and hang around. At around 930 Sunday night we left. Another good weekend at a beatuiful farm.

I love Argentina more and more everyday.