051001 First weekend back at ‘home’ ☺ Wow, it’s October already! Scary… my Spanish is still ‘mas o menos’(so-so), my intentions were to have a Spanish Saturday and Sunday study ☺ But after three hours… those intentions, changed :S Saturday, after a big sole- clean-up of the house, I started to do my homework…. A wee while later, Janey ask my to accompany her to rival (a piercing and taboo place - very professional and hygienic I might add), the second person I’ve accompanied to get their tongue pierced (what’s wi [View Full Entry]

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Ever seen the running of the bulls in narrow streets of Spain… nope? Me neither, but this was a Mexican Version of the Spaniard influence, though they cordon of the town centre/ plaza and let the bulls run around there, with a multitude of people surrounding the outside and quite a few ‘smart’ people in with the bulls, (me being one of them). Was definitely an experience, the people/ compressed crowds are often more dangerous than the bull. Though the guy with blood coming from his eyes, nose and mouth wouldn’t agree. It was bad enough being one of the only [View Full Entry]

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Ok, ok, ok… so it’s been a week, and no blog, ("yes, si i'm fine, thanks for asking :) from the hurricane, i was out of town anyway... oh the joys of travelling") but here jade hits back better than ever… with the most populated city in the world to show for it. Fortunately, citizens escaped from the hustle and bustle of the Federal district for independence weekend. WHAT is Mexican Independence Day, like our New Years, like America’s Christmas, like the fiestas of all fiestas, but here is how it’s define in (Encarta.) So we drove down (Carolina’s [View Full Entry]

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p(re).s: spank you guys and gals so much for the pequieno(little) comments, after all it's the little things that count. (simon you were on a roll weren't cha ;)) Yes although we headed to San Louis Porto Si, last weekend, it didn’t stop me heading back to the state, though I travelled to the South East side of it this week, Real de Catorce was on the West side. Las Pozas - a secret garden (non-tourist) in the town of Xilita, Edward James, a surrealist architecture artist built his sense of paradise in, around and through this paradise that had already [View Full Entry]

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Happy Father’s Day Daddy dearest! For you this year, Real de Catorce!!! - “This reawakening ghost-town radiates magic” 2004 Lonely Planet - Mexico I was thinking about what to get you this year for Father’s Day, I know you’d like underwear and socks, like all the other Dad’s in the world, but I wanted to get you something you’d love, and here’s hoping… that you do. A tour of the town-centre (Real de Catorce) through ‘a lil bit of NZ’, a handcrafted frame, courtesy of yours truly. From the hotel that we, oh and also Brad Pitt [View Full Entry]

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Me? Forget?.... Never, None the less, it was great talking to you on msn the other day, for once I felt a little bit of my NZ inside of me… so, if any other lovelinesses want to chat with this loveliness on msn… coming on in the morning is probably the best time, since we’re just 16 hours difference in time… you know how it is. Anyways, Happy 20th Birthday Lily,oh ‘mai’ don’t we grow up fast… here’s a special magical* Mexican crepe to end your teen years in, and to end all great crepe rivals. Miss you much, much love [View Full Entry]

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Well I guess I should really re assure you all that I’m not living in a mud-clay hut… well not yet anyway, that’s saved especially for later on ;) It’s great… I like it’s the boys like it…. And it’s seems the departmento likes us too… (yes, buildings do have feelings, so says the Mexican aquitectura classes) Yup this where I’ll be for the next few months… it’s a whole apartment block with like 8 individual apartments, and mostly Mexican Students which is cool, it’s like 7 mins walk from the school, so since [View Full Entry]

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Hola me amigas y amigos Hello my girlfriends and guyfriends :) Firstly thanks to the lovelies, that take the time out to come to the site and read the 'mischief' i get up to... i know i blab alot (yes, not JUST in real life), so hopefully the photos brighten the scene up a bit for your liking. EXTRA SPECIAL thanks to the be that are 'BRAVE' enough to blog and comment on something too, you make the blog scene so more exciting for me, i love reading your short and sweet splurts. My home address, i'm not gonna give out [View Full Entry]

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Hmmm so the first couple of weeks have had mixed messages really, still fiestas, still goof times woops and good times, but SO much HOMEWORK,,, what’s up with that?!, it’s not hard homework… more like time consuming, what’s the freaking point homework. I came to Mexico to relax, reflect and religion research, comes into it somewhere… right? WRONG! With full time uni (5 papers, 2 of them being double credits) classes (salsa (pesos $980) , kickboxing, pilates, & aerodance (gratis… free)… (magic card tricks, I wish I could afford)), voluntary work [View Full Entry]

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Cola de Caballo (the Horse’s Tail) Waterfall - brought tears to my eyes, ‘nah honest bro -kk’ water that wasn’t found in a muddle puddle somewhere on the side of the road or out of a tap, some thing that reminded me of home - New Zealand Home That night headed out to Wasteca - desert hills, which look like they have snow on them, mind you this is in the dark, and sorry guys no tripod, no long shutter speeds, no photos. We went out intending to look out for the annual meteor star shower/ though the clouds intentions were [View Full Entry]

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