But it's so early! (Buenos Aires, Argentina)

They call this a city where no one sleeps. I'm really starting to believe it. The more and more I hang out with the local peeps I'm consistently astonished at their tenacity for staying out late. Not only staying out late, but it seems that everything is just bumped ahead on their daily schedules compared to the lifestyle I'm accumstomed to in Canada. 

Meal times, for example, are really late, lunch can be around 2pm and a normal dinner time can be at 11pm! That's right 11pm! My one friend doesn't go to sleep until about 3am and then has to work everyday at 8am. Huh?

As well, I've been out to the clubs a few times now. The first time Leticia and I tried when we first arrived, we got to a club at around 11pm and the bar seemed as though it has been shut down. I only realized a week later that the clubs don't open normally until 1am! This past Friday I went out with a couple friends and they picked me at 12:45am and the one friend kept complaining how early it was to go out to the clubs, so we had to find a pub to go to first and waited until about 2am to arrive to the club. They say the fashionable time to go is around 3am, that's when its pumping! By 5:30am I was standing up on the dancefloor with my eyes shut, basically sleeping. Another time when I went, the DJ didn't start playing music until 3am, and this time I was almost falling asleep by 3:30am and was the first one to go home. I always thought I was a night owl, clearly not.

And here's another thing, I guess it doesn't happen so much in Buenos Aires, but in other cities/towns throughout the country they have siestas during the daytimes. They get a four hour lunch break! Wow. I think this is the fuel to get them through the day. But then what about those that live in Buenos Aires?