Our first two weeks had a lot to do with getting to know the city. The first hurdle was learning how to cook here. We did not find the grocery store to have the cheaper prices we expect in South America. Beef is a huge industry here so that is the most popular meat option. They also have ham and chicken but no turkey. The most obvious missing items are peanut butter, chocolate chips, and salad dressing variety.
Popular food items are Italian pasta, beef sandwiches, and a hot drink called mate. Mate here is like coffee in the states. People carry around thermoses of hot water and drink it all day long.
My biggest frustration so far has been with the city buses. They are not user friendly like the New York subway that I'm used to, which has a map at every station and signs galore. Here, the bus stops are not always marked with which buses come and it's much harder to know where to get off because the roads names are extremely long and often abbreviated. We have had some fun missing our bus stop stories. Buses are usually extremely crowded, but the strange thing is we have had buses pass the stop because they are too crowded to let more people on. This is not normal for LA I'm told, as in most cities people just push their way on to overcrowded buses.
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