The City, Finals, Week of Lasts

The time between Patagonia and now was super busy!
I had presentations and papers in every class and of course there was still so much to see in Buenos Aires! And this chaos was followed by finals and Goodbyes.

The two weeks after Patagonia were the last two weeks of classes. In these 2 weeks I had to give a presentation and write a paper in Economic Integration, work on a project with paper and presentation in International Business, gave a presentation in Spanish in Política Económica, wrote a paper and held a presentation in Social Economy and wrote another essay in Estudios Culturales.
For me this seemed a lot more like going to school instead of university because in Germany in the majority of the university classes we simply have an exam in the end of the semester and that is our grade then. Here we had midterms, presentations, papers, finals and even participation grades. Busy semester! But this gives you the chance to make up for lower grades by having a higher one in the next assignment.
This last week we had finals, but they were only split up between Monday and Tuesday. Of course I ended up having 4 exams on Monday but the two Tuesday classes worked differently so the finals were presentations and one of those I already had the week before. So by Monday night I was done! I only had to go to every class with a sheet on which the professors wrote down the final grade.

MALBA

Japanese Garden

In between all these assignments Karen and I took some time to see more of Buenos Aires. We ended up going to the MALBA (which I had seen before but it is absolutely worth seeing a second time), visited the Japanese Garden, went to the Planetario Galileo Galilei to see a play of "The little Prince" (which was super cute but definitely for kids), went to the Floralis Genérica and the Law Faculty of the Buenos Aires University, went to Tigre once again with Corinna, another time to La Boca, saw a breathtaking Tango show, and finally went to the Teatro Colón to see the opera "The fiery Angel" by Prokofjew, which was amazing! I also got to participate in an activity of the Leo Club together with Ben, which was really nice because we go to know some of the Leos a lot more than usually during the meetings. They are really great people :)

Japanese Garden

MALBA

LEO Activity :)

MALBA

MALBA

Japanese Garden

Waffle House in Tigre

Floralis Genérica

Stadium of the football team "River"

El Caminito in La Boca

Faculdad de Derecho

El Caminito in La Boca

El Obelisco 

Outside Teatro Colón

Outside Teatro Colón

Outside Teatro Colón

Inside Teatro Colón

Everyone received this medal as a good bye present from our university here

Also I got to see Randy another time, who cooked one of my favorite Thai dishes for me!


Tonight was the last night with all of my roommates. Tomorrow Larissa will leave for Perú, Yahaira, Karen and I are heading to Tierra del Fuego (all the way in the South of Argentina) for a week, and Edgard will be leaving for Chile. Larissa won't return to Buenos Aires until December, but all the others I will (hopefully) see again before I leave for good. So to most of my class mates I had to say my Goodbyes but luckily also a bunch of "See you"s.
There will be some people that I will definitly stay in touch with!