Visit to Laura´s

Portuguese chicken, which I made at Laura´s house.

Dispenser for soda water

Pollo portuguesa, or Chicken in the style of Portugal

My bed at Laura´s house.

My host dad´s father, who is ninety four this year

Dancing with some enthusiastic old relative I met at the party.

Me and baby Emma.

Empanadas, sandwiches and pizza. The JQ on the
empanadas stand for jamón y queso, or ham
and cheese.

Wine.

Three month old baby Emma.

The party center where we went to
celebrate the party.

Laura is a lady with AFS (my exchange organization) who I am staying with this weekend, because my family is going on a trip to visit the same relatives in the countryside that I wrote about before, but I am actually leaving on a two week long trip to the North of Argentina on Wednesday so decided to stay behind and get some things done here. On Saturday we also went to a birthday party for the mother of my host dad and had lots of food and loving Argentine relatives who are more touchy than you can imagine. At Laura´s house, I have made a yummy yellow cake from a recipe of her great grandmother, portuguese chicken, in a type of tomato sauce with onions, garlic, herbs, peppers, and potatoes, and lots of different types of very yummy pizza, including one shaped like a roll. We have also eaten lots of desserts, with the primary ingredient always being dulce de leche. I also bought my bus tickets to get to Salta, the city in the north where I am meeting other AFS students and am very excited for that trip.

Cow tongues is what these are. This is why you eat something
and digest properly before you ask what it is. They are
more of a summer food-- served cold in lots of oil and herbs.
Actually quite yummy, but would be less so if
I had known what they were.