Deseo Un Gaucho Guapo (I want a handsome cowboy)

It felt good to wake up this morning. I think it may have been because I went to bed at 10:45pm the night before. That is a good 2 hours before I normally go to sleep. The week is going to get crazy on Thursday, so I need to stay ahead on sleep and homework.
In the place of our regular beginner Spanish class, we took a trip to the RURAL at El Prado. It was a fair type of event for farm type things. There was food, leather wares, machinery and lots of animals. Cows, sheep and horses were the most abundant but I think there were rabbits too. The gauchos dress very classy in my opinion. Their pants are tucked into nice knee high boots and they wear a beret looking hat. Their shirts are most of the time button down in a thin plaid pattern. Our task was to find five words we did not know before, that we could ask about in class. I think it was worth the 95 pesos we paid to get in.
The bus ride was long to get back, but my group knew the way there had taken relatively 20 minutes. I recognized a buliding I had passed several times and was able to warn the group before we passed our stop. After resting my feet a little, I went to take pictures of balconies. For my world literature class, we were assigned to take a picture of a balcony that inspired us. We had just read a short story about a balcony, so it wasn't just out of the blue.
One funny thing that happens often here involves Uruguayan men and U.S. women. They stare or say smething to us or whistle. It is not the way our culture works for the most part, but it is nice to be noticed. Most of the time we're in a pack and we just laugh it off.
I'm looking forward to tomorrow because my classes end at 2:30 and I will have time to run errands. Walking everywhere is one of my forms of exercise now. 8 blocks seems like nothing now...who knows maybe I will walk more when I get back to the states, I just may need new shoes!