After a long flight for Chicago to Washington DC to Buenos Aires, my fellow YAGM volunteers and I arrived safely in our new country and home for the upcoming year. This week we stayed in the center of Buenos Aires in a Lutheran seminary. We ended up sharing the space with 40 other volunteers from Germany. They were all very nice and liked to speak English with us. I think that most of them just started learning Spanish but have had English for many years making English a sort of a comfort language. I would walk through the seminary not knowing if I should speak to the German volunteers in English or Spanish and it got a little confusing but it was fun to get to talk with some of them. A comical challenge came about in the kitchen. The seminary has a large kitchen and dining area but no cooks were on campus so we had to fend for ourselves. It turned out to be difficult to cook with 40 other people because dishes and cooking utensils were scarce. Pots and pans were almost impossible to find and there was a huge scary gas stove and oven that we needed to use. Overall it was a pleasurable experience cooking together in the kitchen. I think cooking with people is amusing and it can bring them closer together.
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