Day 7 - Saturday, February 23

Keisha Googoo and Alicia MacKinnon here, checking in on our 1 week anniversary of the start of our nursing experience! A whole week gone by already with only 1 more week to go.

After a long week of working on our projects and waking up by 6 am everyday, we had time to enjoy our free Saturday and participate in cultural or leisure activities. There are lots of things to do in Buenos Aires, one of which is to visit the La Recoleta Cemetery (Cementario de la Recoleta).

The Recoleta Cemetary entrance. Known as one of the most beautiful cemeteries in the world contains "above ground" graves of notable people such as the presidents of Argentina.

The cemetery contains rows and rows of monumental burial sites with family members inside each monument in their casket. 

To start off this day, many of us took the opportunity to enjoy a sleep-in past 6 am. That said, many of us were up and ready by 9 am as we didn't want to waste anytime sleeping when we could be enjoying the city.

Initially, we had a plan to enjoy an afternoon in the colorful community of La Boca. However, due to the rain, we decided to postpone this experience for a sunny day. This freed up time for all the students and teachers and so we divided into groups to do our own activities. Some of us went to the mall in Palermo or to the local shopping outlets, others ventured the city to explore, while some enjoyed some down time within the hostel.

By late afternoon the majority of us were getting ready to head to the Ed Sheeran concert. Although the concert didn't technically start until 9pm, most of us were out the door between 4-5pm.

A group of beautiful ladies ready for the concert!! Very excited. 

The concert was held in "Campo de Polo' which is a huge stadium that is able to fill about 30,000 people (not including the surrounding seats). The wait for Ed was interesting as we have seen the most rain since our sunny experience in Argentina. Soaking wet and sore from standing for hours, it was well worth the wait once Ed Sheeran made his appearance. According to Ed, Argentina has been his loudest audience on his previous tour so he put his crowd to the test once again!

Campo de Polo Stadium (before it was filled)!!

As the rain picked up, many of us started buying ponchos. Here is our one and only Amanda Sawler rocking her blue poncho, ready for Ed! 

Stage set up for our lovely Ed.

Before he came out, opening acts include Silvina Moreno and Passenger with some great tunes to kick off the show!

Ed put on this football jersey for his encore acts! We were very impressed with his ability to work a stage independently !! He is so great. 

After the show, many of us were not prepared for the lengths we would have to go through to get back to the hostel. The traffic was insane! With some getting through efficiently, others had to adapt to the city style of standing between two busy streets to flag down a cab. We were happy and relieved to have all made it back to the hostel safely. Not getting back until midnight, some went to get a bite to eat, some jumped into the shower to wash the mud off our feet, while others went to bed as quickly as possible to get some rest before an early wake-up call to travel to Uruguay the following Sunday.

It has been an amazing day and it's safe to say that we all love and adore Ed Sheeran.