Argentina Trip - My First Post

Well, I made it to Argentina. I have been planning this trip since November of last year, and I am finally here. I am staying with a missionary family in Capitol Federal (Buenos Aires). Miles and Carla Gleaton have five children: Aaron, Matthew, Kira, Leah and Annika.
The plane trip here wasn’t too bad. I was a little worried that I wouldn’t get to my plane in Miami in time, but I did. Customs was a little easier here than it was when I went to Brazil last year, I actually got a man who spoke English to help me. I didn’t get to have as much conversation on the way here because I kept getting sat next to people who weren’t interested in talking.
When I got here yesterday morning (Tuesday), the kids were all at school. The schools here are within walking distance of their home which is right in the middle of the city. There are businesses right on the other side of the street and beside the house and stuff, it’s like we live right in the middle of the downtown area, but it’s not the central downtown area of Buenos Aires. I got along with the kids almost instantly. Leah is a clinger, and was trying to sit on my lap after about a half hour. The girls (Leah, Kira and Annika) keep fighting over who gets to sit next to me or play on my team when we do board games and stuff. This is the first time in my life that I’ve actually had girls fight over me ;-).
Today I got up around noon (Argentine time is two hours ahead of Kansas right now). I hadn’t slept on the plane at all and we were up until about 1:30 in the morning last night playing “Acquire.” As soon as I was ready, Miles and I went down to the subway and went downtown. The downtown area is very crowded, wall to wall people. There are 14,000,000 people living in this city which Miles said is about 45km from one side to the other. We went to the foreign exchange place to get pesos, ate lunch at Burger King (very very different atmosphere than any Burger King in America), and went shopping for a few things that Miles needed. After this we came home on the subway and in a bit he will be taking me to show me the church.
It sounds like we will be starting to actually work either tomorrow (Thursday) or Friday. The Gleatons just moved into a new home and there is a lot of work that needs to be done here that will involve building shelves, painting and some other basic remodeling stuff. There is also some work at the church that will need to be done, but I am not sure what it will be like yet. It is about time for the kids here to start their winter break (The seasons are opposite here) and then we will be doing a lot of stuff with the youth group from the church.
It is kind of interesting that this is winter time, because the day doesn’t feel any cooler than a cool rainy day in the fall. When we were downtown today, all of the shopkeepers were trying to sell me jackets because I was walking around in a T-Shirt while everyone else was bundled up. At one point I had four people asking me if I was cold and wanted to buy a coat from them, but I haven’t been cold at all.
I will post here regularly during my stay (Maybe not daily, but I will try to post every two or three days) so if anyone asks how I’m doing you can send them to this url. God Bless!