Girlfriends

To my friends at Wildwood who read my blog, and everybody else: I took this picture of the rose that I picked for my lovely girlfriend... Which I don't have!!!

To those people who are reading my blog right now, who are saying to themselves "what the heck is Jonah talking about?": I'm talking about the fact that everyone at Wildwood (my school) thinks that I have a girlfriend here. I've gotten about 4 or 5 emails from my friends, saying "do you have a girlfiend?" I have no idea who started this "Jonah has a girlfriend in Argentina" thing, but I'm not too happy about it.

I don't know why, but if you ask almost any other boy in the school here in Buenos Aires, they will say that yes, they do have a girlfriend. Here that's just another thing that people will brag about or tease other people about. Everyone always brags to me that they have a girlfriend, and that it's really weird that I don't.

Here's a funny conversation that I had with my (now not so much of a) friend Ernesto. He came up to me and said, "no quiero ser el novio de Paz ahora," which means, "I don't want to be Paz's boyfriend now." I said, "porque?" which means why. He said, "porque tengo una novia en Alemania," which means "I have a girlfriend in Germany." Then I said, "es simpatica?" which means, "is she nice?" and he thought for a moment. Then he said "hmmm...no tiene personalidad, pero ella es MUY hermosa." That means "she doesn't have a personality, but she is VERY beautiful." I think that's what a lot of people would say about their girlfriends here. Also, none of the girls that people like are that smart. The boys aren't so smart either, so I guess it kind of works out.

This picture of the rose is actually a picture of one of the many roses in the very large rose garden very near to our house. We went there yesterday.