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 of [View Full Entry]

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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. [View Full Entry]

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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 [View Full Entry]

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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 [View Full Entry]

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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 [View Full Entry]

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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 [View Full Entry]

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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 [View Full Entry]

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