I'm alive. My parents were a bit worried as I didn't appear online for over a week after leaving them and Argentina. Apparantly Dad was ready to call Interpol. Though I do hope my mother was joking about that. The reason I was missing in action was that on arriving in Paraguay I decided to stay in Asuncion for a week with my surrogate mother and sister, Elaine and Rach, and they don't have internet in their house. So I had a lovely time with them, meeting all their friends and seeing what they do during the week. I even got up at 6am to go into school with them one day! Only one day mind you. Unfortunately I got completely caught out for being there. One evening I went to Alpha with the girls and ... read more

I´m having a bloody fantistic holiday with my parents. You´ll never guess what I did yesterday, I went to the world´s only religious theme park. It was the tackiest cheesiest thing I´ve ever seen in my life, not even the Americans could do it! There was a 20 meter fibre-glass Jesus that rose out of the ground every hour. I videoed it and will put the video (and photos) on facebook when I get back to Paraguay. Gotta love those crazy Argentinians. They also had anamatronic shows of the Nativity, Creation and the last supper. It was, well, certainly a unique experience. So to balance it out afterwards we went to the Museum of Fine Art. Of course art can be a bit weird at times too, so it wasn´t actually a step up really. We ... read more

Steve died this evening. I am eating LOTS of chocolate and spending stupid ammounts of money in the play.com sale in order to make myself feel better.... read more

Yes yes, I know, Sophie is very bad at blogging. I just never think what I'm doing is interesting enough for you guys to want to read about! I just smashed a glass and cut myself trying to clean it up. Because I'm that smart. From now on I'm only using plastic cups. A few mondays ago I went fishing with Zuny and her husband Victor. It was great fun. We went across the river in a little canoe style boat, (how on earth do you spell canoe?), and went to Victor's grandparent's house because their land backs onto the river but in a sheltered way that I have no idea how to explain which means that there were no currents because they said it would be too difficult for me on my first time with ... read more

So I had a very enjoyable week last week, I dressed up as clown every day for all our kids clubs. It was great fun, I really do love pratting around. As such, I'm considering eschewing a real career in favour of spending my life working at Disneyland dressing up as Disney characters. I think it's a solid life plan. Alas my father doesn't agree. Thankfully there are is no photographic evidence of my week as a clown, so my dignity remains intact. Claire wanted to take photos, but she is forgetful and I neglected to remind her. I wore a multicoloured curly clown wig, facepaint, bright pink clothes and a massive pair of pink glases that were the size of my head. At the first kids club where we were doing this they asked us ... read more