Hola and Happy Saint Patrick's Day! St. Patty's day has always been a special day for me (Happy Adoption Day Dad, Love you!) so this year, I celebrated it by spending the day trekking in Los Sierras de Argentina. It was a beautiful day and a great experience. I caught the bus at 8:30 a.m. and went to Al Centro to meet with the Intercambio group who organized the excursion. We left Al Centro at 10:00 a.m. and began our two hour drive to our destination. At about 12:00, after a scary info talk about deadly snakes, stray animals, and thorny plants, we began our way up Los Sierras. It was a very rocky, difficult hike across creeks and through tree lines. After a two hours or so, we reached our first destination for the day. We set up camp and quickly changed into our swimming suits to jump into the beautiful mountain stream nearby complete with it's own waterfall. It was FREEZING, but awesome! I spent the next few hours in good conversation and soaking up the sun. Intercambio prepared a hamburger lunch for us all (there were about 40 international students in total from all different universities in Cordoba). As we were eating, a huge vaca (cow) founds it's way into our campus. I was pretty impressed by the fact that the cow could make the trek up that far. The vaca was way too comfortable around people and was digging through all of our stuff, trying to eat the food, and being a nuisance. After we finished lunch, we hiked further upward where the two pictures above we taken. Many photos were taken and there were also many moments of silence as we were all enjoying the view. The silence was promptly interrupted by an idiotic Argentinian guy who thought it would be smart to jump into the spring from hundreds of feet above it. I thought it to be suicidal and started singing Jumper thinking I could channel my knowledge from "Yes Man" and save this person's life. I was positive I was about to watch this guy die, but he lived. Doesn't mean I don't think he's still a lucky idiot. After 6 hours in the mountains, we made our way cautiously back down and drove back to Cordoba. When I got home, it was dinner time and we had awesome steak sandwiches and FRENCH FRIES. It's been a long, great day. Hope everyone had a great Saint Patricks Day. Sorry to say, I won't be missing corn beef and cabbage this year although I did still wear green today. 
Adios!
Alex

THS: Yo fui a Los Sierras hoy para trekking. Los montanas aqui son muy lindo y me gustan esos mucho. Hace un poco calor, pero la agua en los montanas fue muy, muy frio.  Comi' carne de vaca, papas fritas, y bebi' Coka. Espero que todo bien en Nebraska.