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Day 3- Rebekah Winward- Rehearsal, City Exploration, and Concert

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Today was our first full day in Buenos Aires! We began the day learning how to navigate the subway system. This was my first time ever riding a subway and I was happily surprised with how smooth of a ride it was and so convenient (and cheap). 

We located our rehearsal space in a small dance studio with a beautiful outdoor garden. We began a very detailed and productive rehearsal to refine our a cappella music for our concert tonight. It's been very rainy, so the room became a bit warm and stuffy from the humidity. 

After rehearsal, we had free time to explore the city. Karina, Lucy, Meg, and I set off to go to the LDS Buenos Aires temple. We learned from Javier that Ubering was the most reliable way for direct transportation to our destination which allowed us to communicate our destination without worrying about the language barrier, pay online without needing pesos, and to have a set price without haggling. 

Initially we tried taking public transport and acquired a bus card after many communication struggles with the worker at the desk. We attempted to tell the bus driver which stop we were getting off at, so he could charge the price of the trip. There were people yelling at us to get off at a stop, so we did, but in retrospect I believe it was one stop too early with the same street name. Because we weren't at the right stop, our travel plans were completely messed up and we were unsure what to do. 

We decided to take an Uber and made it successfully to the beautiful LDS Buenos Aires temple. Lucy and I were able to go inside and talked with a few of the kind workers who were very patient with us with the language barrier. It was a beautiful experience and I'm so grateful we got to go! 

In the evening we gave a concert with the incredible Camara XXI at the beautiful San Carlos church (Pope Francis was baptized here). I was astounded at the full audience turnout and felt so welcomed by the community. It was such a beautiful moment of humanity to create music together across languages with such talented musicians. We enjoyed talking to a few members in the choir at the reception who spoke English who were very kind and gracious. 





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