Mis musculos

Hola todos! Internet issues and a lack of interesting writing topics have prohibited me from blogging in the past week. I'm sorry to those who have been checking and expecting new posts only to be disappointed (Grandpa Bill). It has just been the same old routine since overcoming my sinus illness. Classes, meals, and hitting the gym. In unpopular fashion, I have been going to the gym 6 days a week and lifting weights. I get stared at both outside of the gym when in gym clothes and inside of the gym where I feel like I lift the same amount as some of the guys that go in there. This is also because only a few girls from the U.S. go to the gym at the University. Unless the Argentinian tennis players go to the gym to ride the spin bike or to do sit ups, it is a rare occasion for the males to have to share lifting space with a female. The guys will literally stop the exercise they are doing and watch me finish my reps. It's not the same kind of uncomfortable that I feel when getting cat-called by the old guys in the streets, it more like a you're making me feel like you think I'm a unicorn just because I'm a girl lifting weights kind of uncomfortable. Like I said before, when outside of the gym wearing gym clothes, I get looked up and down by the girls as if they're saying with their eyes "I cannot believe she's wearing that". My t-shirts, Nike gym shorts, and tennis shoes complete a look that is not of popular fashion here in Argentina. But, getting in some gym time is worth the "you are fashion-less" looks and "dude a girl is lifting weights stares". I take humor in that fact that something as natural for me as going to the gym and wearing athletic clothes is a fashion tragedy and gender bender here. I digress to embracing the glares and plan to flex my muscles at anyone who wants to make a comment about my gym time/wardrobe.
Chau,
Alex

THS: Espero que prom fue muy bien y todos se divirtieron. Yo tengos tres examens en el proximo semana y necisito estudiar por esos. Estoy aprendido mucho aqui sobre gramatic de la lengua, la cultura y la historia de Argentina. Hasta luego y suerte.
SYD: Felicidades en Junior Attendant. Tu estabas muy hermosa en sabado.