Our house in Buenos Aires

It was quite exciting to try to find an accommodation for us. I had heard stories about people who had booked a flat and paid for it but there wasn't apartment or anyone when they got there. I didn't know who I can trust and what's the best place to find one. I found two girl more who searched place to stay and I contacted them. It was quite hard to find place to stay because everyone had different wishes. I contacted about 20 persons and I found one very good one. I booked the flat for us but after I did it the price went 500€ up. It was a bit shocking. I canceled the booking and we were at the starting point again. Four days before flights I got apartment for us, but still there were first two nights without roof above our heads. I tried to find some kind of hostel or hotel. Two days before leaving I found very cheap hotel, some kind of special offer. The hotel costed 75€ for two person for two nights. So it was really cheap! I paid it right away through onehotels.com. The thing was that I really wasn't sure if there still is the hotel or the apartment. So I was a bit stressed out about it.

Here is some pictures from our hotel (BE hotel in San Telmo, Buenos Aires)

Outside pool and solarium

There was two pools in hotel, one outside and the other inside with gym. This is inside pool. The bottom of the pool is glass so you can see the reception and everything else all the way down (5 floors)

This is from 3rd flood. You can see the bottom of the inside swimming pool up high.

I've never seen before a hotel room with glass shower! It was quite funny being in the shower
'cause the other person could see you all the time through the glass :D!

Everything went so well! We got the hotel room and the apartment for 5 weeks. I have to say that the booking and paying system here in Argentina is totally different than in Finland. The inflation is one really big reason! Argentine Peso isn't stable currency, the value of Peso is changing weekly, sometimes even daily. That's why everyone wants to have payment as US Dollars. The thing is that it's really hard to get Dollars! And if you go to the bank, they take 40% for changing money to Dollars! That's really too much! We had cash (US$) for the first apartment but I have no idea how to get the next one! Here's some pictures from the apartment

View from the roof

It has been so hot so the pool is a MUST! For Finnish people it's extremely hot (over 30 C degrees)!
I hope I'll get used to it :)! But I love it! 

We have to be creative for drying our laundry. The living area is our solution :D!

We have bathroom for both bedrooms

Walk in - closet

I love our patio! Everyday I lay down to  hammock and relax before going to bed.

We have private elevator lobby. I have no idea why :D!

View from the roof! I'll take a photo from the other side of the building because there's a barbecue area, really nice!

I can't believe that I am able to afford this kind of apartment, this kind of living! I mean I lived in shared apartment, not glorious at all, lived for very little amount of money, and now... This!! And I'm paying everything by my self. I'm really sad that we don't see how well our things are in Finland! Free education and financial aid for studies from government. Actually I sometimes feel a little bad; do I really deserve all these opportunities and freedom. I'm so lucky girl!!!

Finally to Argentina

Here I go! 5 months of  sun, Latin America, different culture and environment, no work, hopefully no worries. I hope I will find many new things in me and when I go back (if I go back) I will be a whole new woman again. I hope I will find out what I'm suppose to do with next couple years, some direction in my life.

I'm so happy to leave Finland. It was so dark, raining all the time. Normally this time of year it's extremely cold but this year it hasn't, so there weren't even snow. That darkness is depressing! I don't enjoy that Finnish darkness AT ALL! And it's so relieve to leave everything behind in Finland! This is take off from everything. But that's not the reason why I wanted to go :)!

I think we will have nice adventure! And I'm ready for everything. I'm pretty sure things won't go as expected, but that's part of this! Our flight was quite hard.. So much of turbulent! First we take the plain from Helsinki to Madrid (4,5 hours), then waited 3 hours and then to Buenos Aires for 13 hour. And the wind was so hard that the plain had to change the direction for a while. I didn't sleep at all! But to my friend it was the first time in a plain, so I'm pretty sure it was quite rough to her. But I held her hand one time. I have to say that Iberia impressed me, very nice flight company indeed! Nice and clean plain, comfortable, good service (but the food was quite interesting). I recommend Iberia to everyone!

I'm so happy to tell this; I'm in Argentina! I can't wait what comes to me! Open minded and ready for adventures! I'll write post at least once a week so keep reading :)!