South American Adventure

   It was a great trip and I met a lot of great exchange students. I am going to put this in bullet points because it was a long trip.

• Foz
• Went to both the Argentian side and the Brazilian side
• The Brazilian side had better veiws because it was closer to the falls
• Visited the Itaipu hydro-electric dam
• It was very interesting to learn about how it was built and how it works
• Went to Paraguay one day
•  It was just for shopping so I thought it was boring
• Curitiba
• Other exchange students who live in Curitiba visited us
• They showed us some things in the main street when we had free time
• We saw a lot of parks in this city
• Ate at the largest restaurant in Brazil
• We actually entered the kitchen and it was huge
• Toured the Oscar Niemeyer museum
• Gramado
• We went to some chocolate factories
• I bought roughly $35 of chocolate
• We saw the worlds largest chocolate bunny
• Toured there chocolate museum
• Steam World
• This was a museum filled with cool systems that use steam engines
• It has a replica of a train crash in Paris at the front
• Hollywood Dream Cars
• Had a bunch of antique cars and motorcycles
• I had my picture taken in one of them
• The motorcyles were in the middle so that everyone could take a picture with them
• Santa Park
• It was a big park that they said santa spends his summer holidays
• Florianopolis
• Went to the beach
• I swam the entire time
• Punta del Este
• Saw the big hand on the beach
• Toured a museum filled with art from South America 
• The hotel we stayed at was close to a walking path that had a great view
• Some of us walked along it in the morning
• Montevideu
• City Tour
• We went to a market 
• At the ATM they only allowed me to take out a minium of $300 which I very stupid
• We also saw alot of cool things and the central square 
• The central square had the canadian embassy
• I have a photo of me in front of the embassy on Facebook
• This city was my favorite of the trip
• Beunos Aires
• We went to a Tango show
• The steak I had there was great
• We took a boat from Montevideu to Beunos Aires
• They did not let me up to First Class
• In the central square the was lots of protestors and our guide said they are there everyday
• We toured the government building
• It is open to the public
• It had a lot of paintings and stuff of important people
• Return 
• It was 3 days
• We stayed at the same hotel at the Foz
• I went swimming but only one mexican went swimming too
• They said it was cold
• We also at pizza at the hotel
• The rest of the return was just sleeping in the bus

  Well that is about all we did. I think I am forgetting some things but I will add them in later