RYE in Argentina 25-26

  Ok so Argentina is definitely peak in many many aspects but there are some things that Argentina fails at every time. DOORS! Doors do not close ever, like not a single house I've been in has interior doors that line up with the door frame in a successful way. Usually the situation is such that the door is simply too big for the door frame and I'm beginning to believe that there is an environmental factor that causes houses to change sizes. Like you know how permafrost can unalign houses? I think maybe something like that happens here with doors, because I really don't understand how else no doors work properly. And the doors that do semi close never lock, so I've not locked a single bathroom door since I've been in Argentina, and I feel like that is standard practice. And actually now I'm just really accustomed to using bathrooms in which doors do not close at all. And to be clear this includes the public bathrooms at my school and at a cafe I went to, and eve...

  I have been in Argentina for 100 days!! But I have not been an exchange student for 100 days.  Or at least in my opinion, because I became an exchange student on Friday December 27, 2024 at 12.24 AM, when I received an email telling me I'd officially been accepted into the Rotary International Youth Exchange Program. It was actually an incredibly underwhelming email, but nevertheless my exchange student journey had begun. But I'd been tirelessly working on my exchange application for much longer than my acceptance date, so did I not become an exchange student before I even submitted my application? Because just by submitting my first required document, just by opening the application portal I became more of an exchange student than any of my friends. And I actually was very hopeful and referred to myself as an exchange student around the time I submitted my application, about November 24, 2024. So I'm not really sure how long I've been an exchange because honestly I...

     People love stereotypes, and I think it's because the less variety there is in the world the easier it is to understand. Or more so the easier it is in your false reality, which in fact lacks any kind of reality. I also think that many stereotypes individuals have of other people come from simply not knowing, but regardless, viewing humans through a narrow lens is really harmful and honestly really stupid. Because it's not difficult to educate yourself and it's not difficult to talk to people and it should not be difficult to be an open, loving person. And I believe that I am a very open, loving person, which is obviously why I wanted to do an exchange in the first place, so I think I  have some good perspectives that I want to share. Firstly, I, one thousand percent believe that being in a very diverse group of international people is the best thing that you could possibly do. And I can only advise that you find a way to surround yourself with more culture, a...