http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/liamswildbaadventures/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from liamswildbaadventures en-us Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:18:03 +0000 Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:18:03 +0000 sooo brazil brazil brazil. we embarked upon a 27 hour bus ride me and emily sitting arriba en frente and the other girls below...they played no movies but I breezed through 2 books and slept like 12 hours so it was relatively painless. we arrived in bustling florianopolis and took two buses to pantano do sul the small fishing village where we would be renting a chalet for the next week. soo http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Brazil/Santa-Catarina/Florian-polis/blog-354567.html time for an emergency blog post i haven't written anything in about a decade to the increased amount of workstudyingpaper writingreading that has been occurring. but this weekend was one for the books or in this case the blogs so let's begin.stayed in buenos aires til friday morning 6 am. didn't want to skip my uba class because we only have one more left...it was pretty useless but we wa http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Uruguay/East/Punta-del-Este/blog-345764.html gahh should be doing my monografa due miercolesfucking scared about tomorroww what if grandpa winsmy rash is completely gone and maite is out of the hospital wooo hoooo. http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Buenos-Aires/blog-341443.html about to get all down on everything...what happened to july 21st i landed in buenos aires scared shitless it was a rainy day the type of rainy that's not actually raining but chilly and wet and i got here and couldn't speak spanish and ate horrible spaghetti and sauce and got lost walking a foot to the supermercado for toilet trees and unpacked and met the whole family and was scared and went t http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Buenos-Aires/blog-337862.html 2001 space odyssey must be seen high i guess cause I didn't fucking get what was worth my 2 hours. had a dream that my dad was screaming at me to shoot myself with a shot gun i need help i guess or possibly more sleep. was literally dozing off in graciela's class today that i hit my head against the wall cause i fell asleep starting the people surrounding me what a joke. my desk is strewn http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Buenos-Aires/blog-337701.html so haven't written in awhile obviously I should be writing a paper about the fluidity of time and space in borges but at 40 to midnight writing a blog entry seems like a more pressing matter. bariloche was fucking ill hiked an entire mountain bottom to snowy top and then down again bajaring hurt so fucking much. saw some beautiful beautiful places stayed in a cute hotel roomed with edson http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Buenos-Aires/blog-337150.html wish I wrote on this thing more often...last night I had my first night of going out alll night and then straight to breakfast with everyone it was so much fun. sugar got raided I hope they don't get shut down that would be a legit travesty voted in my first election this week discovered the best iced coffee of buenos aires and have no more energy to write in this off to watch slacker http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Buenos-Aires/blog-333344.html thursday 2 stella artois 2 gin and tonic 2 whiskey cokesfriday 1 bottle of champagne 1 gin and tonic 2 red bull vodkassaturday 1 appletini 2 glasses of wine 2 liters of stella 5 shots of tequilasunday 2 tequila sunrises 1 shot of tequilat w e n t y o n e had the best birthday yet with amazing people amazing times...never leaving here http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Buenos-Aires/blog-331658.html soo last wedensday becca and I got on an 18 hour bus to salta from retiro at like 615 in the evening. they played bomb movies premonition made of honor 27 dresses and fed us delish alfajors and an edible dinner. we got to salta the next morning around noonish. we dropped off our stuff at backpackers hostel city and made out for the city to do some exploring. we saw some linda churches http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Jujuy/Purmamarca/blog-329935.html wow i don't use this ever anymore. going to salta and jujuy this wednesday. it's seriously horrible what happened and is still happening in bolivia right now hopefully things get resolved sooner rather than later and countries like argentina that surround bolivia will do the right thing and assist refugees if need be. hope it gets resolved soon. i finally saw the charlie gibson interview wit http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Buenos-Aires/blog-326384.html i've never had to work for pretty much anything that I've been given. any job internship trip experience has been provided to me through my parents my dad makes a call and I show up to work sometimes that same day often times for jobs or experiences that people work very hard to get. i think that's why i'm mainly attracted to drive i love men who work very hard for what they have and who a http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Buenos-Aires/blog-324998.html just got back from the most amazing place i've ever been to on earth.wed night molly and I got on our 10 30 pm semi cama bus to crdoba sooo excited for what was to come. we got there at 7 20 am on thursday morning arrived at pewman che hostel and were the only huespedes. the guy told us that we would have the hostel to ourselves this week because for some reason no one was coming to crdoba. http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Cordoba/Quebrada-del-Condorito-National-Park/blog-324009.html soo a couple of nights ago I was talking with M and he made a comment that my family was upper lower class and how his was upper middle class. i don't give two fucks about anyone's economic status seeing as how i'm completely dependent upon my parents for virtually everything. what pisses me the fuck off is that my parents haven't never disclosed their income with me they just choose not to sh http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Buenos-Aires/blog-322078.html sooo angeles told me that her family at the parilla on sunday thought i was from Britain or Ireland and I actually get that a lot from Argentines here. Gustavo told me it's because I have confidence when I speak I dress very well and I seem to be very cultured and educated needless to say it made my ego thissssss big haha.I'm bouncing yet again this time to Crdoba and the central Sierra mo http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Buenos-Aires/blog-321377.html Just got back from traveling to Rosario Friday afternoon at 1 Taryn and I met at the Retiro train station to get on our omnibus. It took about 5 hours we got to our hostel a little bit after 6. It was called Che Pampas Hotel and it was amazing so clean really small chill staff included desayuno living room with dvd player patio with parillahelliphot We dropped off our stuff grabbed http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Santa-Fe/Rosario/blog-321020.html go to bardot for my birthday drink more champagne rosa go to sitges for more karaokeheard a guy singing high and dry radiohead on the platform on the subte today stayed and heard him sing the whole thing. LOVE that song but when a man with an argentine accent and an acoustic guitar sings it perfecto.going to rosario for an overnight trip with taryn on friday.sunday is angeles' birthday pa http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Buenos-Aires/blog-318766.html life has been amazing por supuesto. school is fine mildly interesting. i really like my uba class and i'm glad that i'm taking it with molly and katie has lame as that sounds it's nice to have a comfort zone and not be the only one who only catches every few words the professor says. friday i went shopping in palermo with edson and actually bought something for a change...2 really cool camiseta http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Buenos-Aires/blog-318315.html bellas artes was amazing...so beautiful. really loved the room with all of goya's drawings. loved the sculpted statuettes. didn't have enough time to see the whole museum but loved the european exhibits also. much much better than malba and gratis parque de la costa was really fun...argentine rollercoasters are a little scary. desafio challenge . el infierno was ridiculous la mina aband http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Buenos-Aires/blog-315397.html weekend was pretty good...friday we went to a masquerade ball at alsina with edson and joe...it was so lame. the music was awful lots of old dudes...becca olivia and charlotte took a cab to meet us but didn't get in even though we had 3 free passes left i was so pissed. we left kind of early for us haha. SATURDAY..what an event. so saturday I met taryn for lunch at las violetas what else http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Buenos-Aires/Buenos-Aires/blog-314071.html what a week phew.to start i'm officially a resident of argentina yayyuhh. tomorrow i get my visa at 745 am noooo. i took a lot of classes this week and wasn't really thrilled with any of them. for starters the prof never showed to the international security class plus it meets on mondays so I don't think I want to take it. UBA is just too bootleg graffiti all over the classrooms people http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Buenos-Aires/blog-312176.html