Uruguay is like Canada?

¿Cuál es la gente pasando?

Well, I'll tell you whats happening with me! A few weekend ago my API group went on an excursion to the Uruguay and to the town Colonia. We took a boat which was really awesome. Its was like a the inside of an airplane but on water. On this trip we learned many things like about the settlement and fights between the Spanish and Portuguese, the stranger farmer man, tried different jams and even visited old ruins sites where castles use to be!



---- this pictures is of me on the ruins where a convent was built in 1694 and destroyed by a fire in 1704. Soldiers of Juan Manuel de Rosas started the construction of the Lighthouse in 1845. The work wasn't complete due to the Great War but finally finished in 1857!




Below is the a picture of just some of the strange collections of a farmer that our tour bus decided to stop at. We were all confused why we came all the way out to this farm but we came to see Colonia downtown... yeah well it was interesting to say the least.








Yep, He won a Guinness World Record for this. Started in 1955... okay I was really ready to leave when we walked in haha.







BUT then we stumbled through the strange collection of pencils, keys chains, and yeah... into a collection room of jams.

Yeah... at least we got to taste them right!
















HAHAHAH picture of me tasting the Dulce de Leche spread!!

Best one for sure!












----this is a picture of Gaby's arm haha... she is pointing to area of Coloina, Uruguay and then Buenos Aires, Argentina.

(Gaby is one of our local leaders in API Baires just fyi)

So, we come to find out visiting Uruguay from Argentina is like visiting Canada from the US.
Super. Simple.


Overall, it was a great trip and first chance for some of us in the program to get away from the city life that is Buenos Aires. What can you do? oh... yeah get on a boat and go to Canada... I mean Uruguay.




^^^^ Fun Fact: In this restaurant, I was swarmed by some kids from Uruguay who apparently haven't been to exposed to many darker skinned people. So many of them decided to ask some of the API students if I was from Jamaica and proceeded to ask if I will take a few pictures with some of them. Number one reason: the hair

Only day I felt like a celebrity. Maybe I should go back...

Chau peeps, keep it real