After a few long days of travel, we finally arrived in Buenos Aires! As we hopped from plane to bus, I was excited to finally start the adventure in country. On the bus our CAPA advisor, Mariela, talked about the different things we would be doing throughout the week and some travel tips. While traveling from the airport to our accommodations we drove past what seemed to be endless apartments. Sadly, a lot of these apartments seemed to be overcrowded and very run down. This is something I was not expecting to see from the pictures included in our pre-departure studies. Since we were already running 2 hours late, we quickly through our things down in the apartments we followed Mariela to what she told us would be a late afternoon snack. When we arrived, it turned out to be a large meal at a nice restaurant. Through research I had discovered that most of Argentina’s roots come from Europe, so I was not expecting such a large meal. I found the same thing to be true at dinner. Dinner was filled with many courses and not unexpectedly, lots of steak. Walking to dinner was awesome because it was the first time I got to see the main avenue in Buenos Aires. The huge avenue is stunning with its tall impressive buildings, standing higher than most others in Buenos Aires, on both sides.  Something that stood out to me about these buildings was the obvious influence of European architecture as the apartments with many balconies remind me of those in Spain and France. Another thing I found to be interesting was the amount of people that could speak and or understand English incredibly well. I have found this trend to be true in many globalized countries. This is definitely an area that the United States lacks globalization seeing as most of our study abroad group is hardly able to fully understand the language being spoken by Argentines. Not only this, but as we traveled through different parts of Argentina it was easy to see how the country is developing amongst itself and which areas are developing faster. For example, Mariela spoke of the changes in pace of the Argentine lifestyle. In Buenos Aires this lifestyle is faster and more similar to the United States versus a slower more relaxed lifestyle outside of the city. This clear change in lifestyle reveals the effects of globalization on daily life in Buenos Aires. Overall, today was a great day and I couldn’t be happier to finally be settled in Buenos Aires!