The classes of our “Cuatrimestre” here in Buenos Aires started three weeks ago, and after some first impressions of the faculty, professors, style of the classes, and the tutor program of the university, it’s safe to say that the Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) is nothing like what we’re used to from home. Turns out that our home base Maastricht University (UM) is not only a lot more organised and on time when it comes to course selections or time schedules of tutorials, but you would also never imagine to have pre-drinks at the SBE faculty in Maastricht – something that’s not all that unusual here at the UBA.
Uni à la UBA – just an alibi for having the time of our lives?
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After a little more than two weeks here in Buenos Aires, we’ve already established a routine of going to certain places on certain days of the week: Jobs with all the exchange students every Tuesday, Salsa on Wednesdays, Party every Friday & Brunch with the girls on Sunday. Besides those set dates, our first days in the city were also filled with special events and shows, so that we had something going on every single day of the week. I should mention at this point that our amazing tutors from the university are truly doing a great job at keeping us busy with fun international meet-ups, Raggaeton-parties and all kinds of activities. While we’re still getting used to our new sleeping rhythm of going to bed between 3-5am, getting up around 1pm, then napping from 9-11pm, before going out again, going to class hasn’t been much more than a minor activity on the side, that sometimes feels like a little punishment for having so much fun and getting so little sleep the rest of the time. 
I got to the city exactly one week ago, spent four nights at Juampi’s place (thanks to Caro for the set up), had my first Asado (typical Argentinian BBQ), met loads of people through my host, saw the most beautiful sunset on my first night, worked out with my gym buddy “the cat”, practiced my language skills on an advanced level with Juampi’s super fast, slurred Argentinian Spanish, went out every night and sure wasn’t bored for even a second during these first couple of days in my soon to be called home: BUENOS AIRES.
lenacatherine 