You are kidding me - you are going to Uruguay? So get this my daughter last year had to pick any country in the world to do research and write about - what does she pick Uruguay - I actually thought that was pretty smart as the teacher probably didn't know a whole lot about it.
It is an interesting little country. My daughter's interest was raised when the tall ships came to town and we were waiting to board a little smaller tall ship from Uruguay. They had this great music playing - the people there were so kind and answered all sorts of questions. It may had been one of the smaller and least popular ones to board, but also the friendliest and most fun.