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The falling snow... drifts by my window...?¿?¿
Published: May 28th 2007South America » Argentina » Chubut » Esquel
May 28th 2007
The falling snow... drifts by my window...?¿?¿ South America » Argentina » Esquel By hannah_shanks May 28th 2007Yes that´s right it´s still autumn here but it´s snowing already!!!!!!!!! The sunday before last which would be about the start of this month ish..... there was a tiny bit of snow. and then a few days later we had proper snow on and off for 3 or 4 days. All of this wass rather exciting for me coming from north quensland so I decided to take some photos of the first snow of my argentine winter... ( well autumn technicaly)... read more
The falling leaves...drift by my window...
Published: May 22nd 2007South America » Argentina » Chubut » Esquel
May 22nd 2007
The falling leaves...drift by my window... South America » Argentina » Esquel By hannah_shanks May 22nd 2007Autumn is in full swing so I thought I´d just shove up some photos. Nothing much to say...here´s me in the Autumn of Esquel.... read more
May 15th 2007
Asado is an argentinian family barbeque. My family doesn´t do it but alot do it every sunday as does the family of my exchange friend Jeevon from America. So one day I decided to go along with them. We went about 2 blocks from his house, ( nothing is ever far in this town) to where his grandma lives. On the block of her house, they have built a special building just for asados which has a long table and chairs for about 15 people, as well as a kitchen and the barbeque built in. Family and friends came and everyone brings their own salads and drinks, but the meat is all cooked there. Seeing as my host parents don´t like meat that much, I was quite hapily to chow down on the endless supply ... read more
May 5th 2007
El Bolson is a little town, in the province of Rio Negro ( the province just up from Chubut) with maybe 15 000 people, not sure. I went there 2 weekends in a row, the first time for an afs party and the second time just with my parents. El Bolson from what I gather is the equivilent to the byron bay of australia. On saturday and sunday mornings there is the ´ferria ´which is a craft and food market full of hippy type stuff and the town has alot of really good ice-cream and chocolate and other such things as well. Like the rest of patagonia it is also surrounded by beautiful scenery. I went on a little hike up a hill which overlooked the whole town, and visited a nearby lake named ´Lago ... read more
April 12th 2007
A few weeks ago we had the niece of my host dad and her friend stay in our house for a week and that weekend we drove them up to bariloche, a town a few hours away and on the way we stopped at some lovely places in the national parks. To be honest, I went out the night before and was really tired and I don´t know what the lakes and places are called or anything but they look pretty so I´ll put in some photos of them! It was the German girl Friederike´s birthday about a week ago and so we had a lovely cake party for her in her house and then went out that night. Cake parties seem to be what you do on the afternoon of your birthday here, and ... read more
April 3rd 2007
So being in a new house is great. Heated floors make life so much easier to get out of bed in the morning! And I now get driven to school as the tempuratures are starting to drop! So, I needed to buy a winter/ski type jacket right? and poor little Hannah from northern queensland wouldn´t have a clue what to do for so she enlisted the help of one native friend who speaks english and an exchange student that was a ski instructor back home. Well I must say they just had the best time shopping with me. they thought i was just freaking hillarious. I would be like, this one looks big and warm, and they´d say to me, yeh it´s people like you that we can tell are tourists becuase they are wrapped ... read more
March 20th 2007
After a 4 day orientation in Buenos Aires, a day spent in the Buenos Aires airport after my plane being delayed twice, I landed in my lovely little town of Esquel. I was so scared and excited at the same time to meet my family (well my little family of only a 29 year old women) and was relieved that she brang a friend to the airport with her who spoke english. Atleast now I didn´t have a 20 minute car ride of silence back to my house. One of the first things I noticed was that in my car the speedometre didn´t work but I´ve come to learn now that that´s common here, as is not having number plates... or all the seatbelts.... So my first few days in my house were.... different... an ... read more
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