Alojamiento!

Today is a public holiday in Argentina which for us = nothing to do. Hence why we are sitting in a computer room. It´s quite hot today, which would be great if we could go swimming. I was wondering why all the shops were closed when a helpful hombre told us it was a día feriado. Darn. We got in to Mendoza at about 4 this morning. Pretty shitty considering we were tired and didn´t have a place to stay. What were we going to do?! Luckily, a random woman offered us an alojamiento. ¿Dodgy? Probably. So we went with her to a car, where a driver took us to the place. The room turned out ok, good price too. But I don´t think it´s very legit. I paid cash and she doesn´t even know my name. Usually they take down your passport number etc. It must be what they do here, as when we went to Valpo, a woman came up and asked if we´d like to stay at her place. She had a bit of a moustache.

Yesterday (back in Chile) when we were sitting in a park in barrio brasil, a woman came up to us speaking very fast, slightly slurred spanish. She asked for a cigarette and then kept talking and talking, even after we told her we didn´t really understand what she was saying. I got bits and pieces only, something about poetry? She asked for a pen and paper and wrote some stuff down, I could understand what she wrote but she took the paper when we left so I can´t remember exactly what´s on it! Also nothing made any sense!! I mean it was clear spanish on the paper, but I couldn´t understand why she was writing?¡ Turns out she was drunk. But she stayed with us for ages and asked me to critique what she had written. Very strange...

So as I was saying, we´re in Mendoza but can´t really do anything until tomorrow. Looks like we´ll go sit in a park and read. Ah. Lovely. This holiday´s been good for learning how to relax.