With Doors Wide Open

 Ok so Argentina is definitely peak in many many aspects but there are some things that Argentina fails at every time.

1. 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 every residential house I've been in. I'm not complaining, I don't really mind it, but I just don't understand. And I feel like it's such a strange thing for Argentina to be so bad at.

2. TOILETS! This kind of goes with doors, the whole bathroom situation in most places here is not so peak. But now specifically I mean the flushers on toilets, because they're so random here. Like some toilets have the flusher attached to the top of the toilet as a button, but never once have I seen a pushy handle, which I feel like is the most common in the US. But I've used many bathrooms where the flusher is above the toilet, kind of like in Pingu if you remember, but basically where the flusher is a metal switch on the wall above the toilet. And even more odd, I've used multiple bathrooms where the flusher is like a hole in the wall behind the toilet and you need to shove your hand into the toilet's exposed pipes and pull a metal stick that's literally inside the plumbing. But the worst is that lots of toilets lowkey don't flush, like never assume a toilet will flush. Umm now I'm thinking maybe it's weird to be talking about toilets but it was such a big thing I noticed about Argentina so I will share it nonetheless.

3. SCHEDULES! They cannot make a solid schedule, which I don't really mind because neither can I but it's very ingrained in the culture here. And I noticed this especially when school was in session, because I went to a different school as my host siblings and their school got out at a different time. But that's because every school gets out at a different time, and the different grades in the same school all get out at a different time. And then also on different days school would get out at different times. Even the schedule for the school day was different everyday, and like at my school in the US it is too, but I'm talking like here the schedule changed unpredictably. So I've really become a go with the flow typa person, which is nice because I think  my life here is pretty low stakes anyway. But yeah it's not really worth it to ask what's happening honestly, because everyone is so spontaneous anyway. Like yesterday we went on a much needed trip to the supermarket, but there was a craft fair on the way so we went to the fair instead of the supermarket. So really anything can happen at anytime here. 

And here's some lovely pics!!

my first argentina merch!! that I actually got at the craft fair we went to instead of the supermarket lol

the drive from Cordoba city to Rio cuarto always has the most majestic sunsets

this is just very argentinian

this is the first part you see of rio cuarto when you arrive by bus