Pre-Immersion

The only way to truly learn anything is to completely and fully immerse yourself in it. My mom gave me a suggestion to go to Pittsburgh for a day with myself and my good friend and just try to find our way around. She said it would help me prepare to walk around foreign cities in Paraguay (even though I might be alone). I had wanted to do that for a while so my friend and I planned it as soon as possible. We made a few adjustments however; we only had $20 each and we brought are bikes to help us get around fast and cheaply.

We went last Thursday and here's how it went, with lots of pictures. 

Are plan was to park in the South Side, bike to down town, look at the art at the Three Rivers Art Festival, get an Ice Ball from Gus and Yaya's, head over to Oakland, and go the Strip District. We also wanted to ride a bus, the metro, and go to Rivers Casino somewhere in the middle of all that. 

I'll tell you right off the bat, Rivers won't let you in unless your twenty-one, I was extremely disappointed, I'll just have to go to Canada. We didn't end up riding a bus or make it Oakland, the Ice Ball man, and when we got to the Strip District most places were closed which made me sad, but now I have an excuse to do it again! (The picture above is me and my cousins at the Ice Ball Man's, on a different day.) Um...oh yeah, don't chain your bike's to a "public" piece of property. 

Aside from the downs we had are ups, like life, are trip was a roller coaster ride. We got to ride the T, ride our bikes, and pose with the many statues around town! We also at some sort of chicken pita rap for lunch and dinner, we bought foreign chocolate (which I always do), and my friend saw Station Square for the first time which really surprised me. I also almost got hit by a bus, yay!

My "immersion" in my home city might not have sounded like much, but I had a great day. It helped open my eyes to be more aware and also to stick to my gut. Both those are things that I need to work harder on and both will help me a lot just down the road (by road I mean Paraguay).

Other than that day I've done some other fun things too. I went to Beatlemania for the 3rd time, they are the best, I know because another group before and they just weren't as good. I also saw The Avengers, I know I'm late to seeing it, but it was great (because of CHRIS HEMSWORTH)! I also went to my best friends grad party and my mom and I made her a palm tree out of pineapples, it's so cool, when I find the picture I will upload it!

PS Ringo was very sassy, he wasn't looking in any of my pictures and he wouldn't hug one of my friends (and this is an extremely long run on sentence).

***Side Note: Someone has told me that I have lots of grammatical errors, such as their for there, misspelled words, etc. I do care, just not enough to fix them, sorry. I write these fast, and for the record I do know the differences between there and their. I also would like to apologize for when I bore you, some times I am random, weird, and just unentertaining, but please don't let one or two posts push you away. Oh, also I am a pretty sarcastic person so if I mention something sounding rude or something that just doesn't make sense, that is my sarcasm.