Buenos Aires...strong coffee,cheap red wine and even cheaper steak. Yes please! HOLA! Thats about as much spanish as I can remember from school and mexico! Ok,slight exaggeration but it was a bit of a shock to leave america and the english speaking world! luckily we have iona with us,aka our official group translator so its all good. im finding I can understand a decent enough amount of what people say,enough to get the gist of it,but speaking is trickier and im generally pretty rusty but hopefully itll get better with time! Weve just spent a week in buenos aires, which [View Full Entry]

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Heute morgen sind wir aufgewacht und es schien etwas aufregendes bei uns im Hostel passiert zu sein, denn als ich unsere Zimmertuer geoeffnet hab sind zwei Polizisten vorbeigegangen... Und weiter hinten, bei den Englaendern ;-) vor der Tuer standen auch noch welche rum. Wir haben uns erstmal nicht beirren lassen und sind fruehstuecken gegangen, da gab es dann an der Rezeption schon etwas Wirbel, es wurde telefoniert, eine Frau sah verweint aus und auch ein gestandener Englaender schluchzte... Nach dem Fruehstueck wurden wir dann von einer Frau vom Hostel nett gebeten, doch bitte fuer 20min [View Full Entry]

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Champagne really helps you get over the fact that you are stuck in a bus for 17 hours. Whiskey and wine help too. The bus company must have cottoned on to this fact a while ago, as we were plied with drink during our first experience of first-class travelling. We had stumped up the extra cash to get ourselves a fully reclinable seat with a little wall behind us. We did not regret the extra fiver spent as we whiled away the afternoon sipping beverages and watching movies before being fed a hot meal at the very Argentinian dining hour of [View Full Entry]

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hi all we are in argentina at the moment, been here 2 weeks. ill fill you in on the new zealand antics! we arrived in Aukland to be greated by rain and a temp of 10 degrees-bit of a change from fiji. 1st job was to get some warm clothes. Aukland is not the prettiest of cities especially in the rain. we had arranged to travel both the north and south island on the Magic Adventures tour bus. so after 2 days shopping we got picked up and headed for a place called Rotorua. on the way we stopped at (30 [View Full Entry]

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So here we go NO FUN IN ARGENTINA... Our second day in Buenos Aires started with shopping, well after breakfast of course. Diana needed a scarf because its slightly colder here than expected and I need an USB cable to connect my camera to the pc (forgot it in Hamburg). Diana picked out a large shopping mall - the oldest in the city and probably the one which lies the farthest away - from the tour guide. After an hours walk down the Avenida 9 de Julio - which is the widest road in the world; measuering 142m and takes approx. [View Full Entry]

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It has been a while since my last blog entry and in the meantime I have started the volunteer programm. After enjoying 3 weeks of the touristy side of BsAs, I was about to learn a different side of this city. I have been travelling through many countries in this world and have seen a lot of poverty. Most of the time you just see the poor people on the street but not what is happening behind these streets. This time I got the opportunity not only to better understand and learn what actully is done (or not) to help the [View Full Entry]

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wie war das eigentlich... Wir sind am 18.August 4.30Uhr aufgestanden, bzw. bin ich aufgestanden und habe dann drei Langschlaefer wecken muessen. Dean wollte ja unbedingt mit mir auf Weltreise gehen und Jordan und Elli wollten uns zum Flughafen bringen. Das hat dann doch so lange gedauert das wir die erste S-Bahn verpasst haben... aber so konnte Martina mir wenigstens noch einen Kaffee kochen. Also alle fix geduscht und dann eben ab zur U-Bahn.. die dann prompt Verspaetung hatte, was zur Folge hatte das wir die S-Bahn zum Flughafen wieder verpasst hatten.Ich war zu diesem Zeitpunkt schon zie [View Full Entry]

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So it's been about three weeks since my last entry. Since you haven't heard from me you may have wondered what happened. Well, I enjoyed the last two weeks of my trip and got back to the US on August 4th. Since then I've been busy getting my life in order, including my move to Baltimore, and the time is flown by. This will be the last entry about my trip, followed by another entry where I will share with you some concluding thoughts. Since I've been back I've been getting a lot of comments from all you readers about my [View Full Entry]

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Getting packed and ready to go! [View Full Entry]

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Getting Packed and ready to go! [View Full Entry]

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