vienes a mi casa?

So to reward me for getting into grad school (read: celebrate the fact that she no longer has to support my bum ass), my mother has offered to give me a trip this summer to wherever I want to go. Now I was originally thinking about traveling around Europe (especially considering the only country on the continent proper I've been to is Spain), but lets not kid ourselves, this kind of trip would be no fun alone and Europe is way too expensive (damn you, euro!) for me to expect that I can convince someone to come along for the hell of it.

Luckily for me, my friend Cat has been scheming for months about hitting up Buenos Aires this summer. She studied abroad there last fall, so she's very familiar with the city (and it doesn't hurt that as a native Colombian, she's fluent in Spanish). Our plans are to share an apartment for a month and spend the whole time eating great food, partying, and basically detoxing from college (and in my case, getting mentally prepared for grad school with one last major fling o'fun).

Now unfortunately for me, I don't speak a word of Spanish (aside from choice phrases that I was taught by Cat and Tatiana when we went to Madrid for fall break our sophomore year. In particular: "I am extremely religious. No sex!" and "I'm a prostitute. No sex without money!" Yeah. For some reason, they thought that knowing how to say these would help me ward off sketchballs in da club.)

In any case, I've now got a goal to be conversationally fluent (I use the term "fluent" here very, very loosely) by the time I go to Argentina. To actually achieve this, I've been checking out the "how to speak Spanish" videos on youtube and obsessively writing down and repeating phrases in my spare time.

I'm particularly fond of a video entitled "romance," which I assure you is filled with absolutely priceless gems. I've learned such wonderful phrases as: Veniste solo/sola (Did you come by yourself)? Tienes novio/novia (Do you have a boyfriend/girlfriend)? And of course, my personal favorite, vienes a mi casa (Are you coming back to my place)?

With such amazingly useful phrases under my belt, how could I not be ready for BA?