Charlie and her Friends

JG says: Over the last four months we have watched appreciatively as Charlie has made friends with her classmates despite the language barrier. I saw their friendships up close today on what turned out to be an unofficial class trip of sorts to the historic Cabildo, the former Buenos Aires town hall, with lunch at one of the city's oldest cafés, Cafe Tortoni.

Charlie says:

Today we went on a tour of a museum and it's really fancy.

My friends in this picture are ... well, I'm not gonna say them all, but I'm going to say two boys and two girls. They are: 

– Valentino is the one that is right behind me.

– Mia is the one that is wearing a bow and standing right next to Milena. 

–Augustin, who is a boy, and I haven't said yet, is standing right in front of Chiara and next to Antonia and Mia. 

– Ines is the one that's right next to Lara and Augustin's brother; I don't know what his name is so that's why I'm calling him "Augustin's brother."

This was in the cafe. All my friends were there too. You can see them in this picture. The one with the purple sweater is Lara and the one with the white shirt is Antonia and the one with the flower headband at the end of the table that you can kinda see is Milena, who everyone calls "Milé." The one with the cat ears (it's actually a headband) is Chiara. I was eating tostadas con jamon y queso and I was drinking–in Spanish–jugo de naranja, but in English orange juice.

[JG's note: Jamie and I approve of la mama in the bottom left.]

This is a picture of us (well of course my friends and me) on the subway. My friends were all in line, me first. Let's start with me: Me, Antonia, Lara, Milena, Inez, Elena (who everyone calls Ellé), and my friend Augustin's brother, and that's it! The seats were really fancy and that subway was like a worm; it didn't have doors at the ends of the car. It only had doors for getting in and out.



 JG says: And here's a selfie from back at the Cabildo, with Plaza de Mayo, the central square, behind us.