A few things about Argentina/big city life that I love so far. The way the food works down here is totally different they don't eat hardly any meat for breakfast; instead they eat tons of pastries. The most popular are called medialunas which look like small croissants and are covered in sugar and honey quite tasty. Another difference is the times that they eat the biggest difference is that they eat dinner starting around 9 pm at night which totally throws me off with my eating habits. I currently cannot complain about the food considering I eat quite well for cheap. A very nice meal runs less than $12 American down here and since I still do not have a fridge it seems to be quite a regular occurrence for me to be eating out.

Another big difference is the ministry down here in Argentina. The movement has the same goals as it does in the states of launching movements on every campus and to turn lost students into Christ centered laborers. The difference comes with how student life looks down here in Buenos Aires; the students mostly live at home with their families and commute to school so the students do not live close to the university or have close families. So instead of being a movement of mainly younger students we reach out to an older college student crowd and young professionals. This totally changed my status as the oldest kid in the room that I got used to at ECU and now as staff I'm about the same age or younger than many of the people in Vida Estudaintal(Crusade's name here in Argentina).

One of the major changes that I am still getting used to down here is that I live in such a huge city. I feel like every day I see something that I have never seen before and it is amazing because I have been here all most a month and still feel like I have barely seen any of the city. Being the capital of Argentina politics is always in play and it is fairly normal to see a protest taking up a major city street at least once or twice a week. Another amazing things is the architecture of the city in some places continues to blow my mind with how beautiful it is. Buenos Aires, Argentina in the early 20th century was a very wealthy so there is great architecture from that time period.

I promise that more pictures and details about this great city are still to come!

Ben Anderson

Shmando