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April 28, 2008 in nightlife, touristy
Tags: Argentina, Barracas, Buenos Aires, Columbia, Cristina, Ecuador, Fabiana, Laura, Mauro, Montevideo, Uruguay

For Friday, Cristina had invited me to come to a private party. I followed her invitation, although I wasn´t really in a party mood. I just had to leave the house.
I know Cristina from my little Uruguay-trip, where we got to know each other in the streets of Montevideo. Cristina is from Ecuador and studies Cinema here in Buenos Aires.
We met at 23.30h in front of Cristinas University in San Telmo, where I got to know some of her friends.
In a big group we arrived at the party in Barracas round 00.30h and we were more or less the first guests. It’s this Argentine phenomena, that parties do not start before 00.00h and if you ask someone to meet at 22.00h, he or she answers “Why so early?”
It turned out to be a typical artist party. Nice location, electronic music, a lot of alcohol, some drugs and a lot of dancing. I enjoyed 2 of those 5 things and had interesting talks with Laura, a friend of Cristina. She told me about some tourist spots in her homecountry Columbia. If it´s on her, I will have to visit Coveñas in the “Golfo de Morrosqillo”. Laura also told me about Columbian Politics, mainly about the problems with its neighbours Ecuador and Venzuela. Actually only some weeks ago Venezuela and Ecuador were about to start a war against Columbia, but the situation has calmed down a bit.
I also enjoyed some serious talks with Cristina. We shared our experiences being a foreigner in Buenos Aires. She also managed to “save” me, every time, someone dodgy or “high” wanted to tell me his entire life story.
I could also use my German once again, because Fabiana, also a friend of Cristina, speaks a little German. Furthermore there was a group of four Germans at the party, but I didn’t talk to them, that would have been too much German:-)
The way back home was easy, thanks to Cristinas friend Mauro, who drove us through half Buenos Aires in his car. He dropped us off close to Parque las Heras, where Cristina lives and from where it was only 20 minutes by bus to my beloved department in Once.
I was at home at 6h, about an hour earlier than usual.