haha ok so I haven't updated in awhile...but nothing TOO exciting has been going on. Just school stuff during the week mostly...you know classes and such. Then the weekends pretty much just getting sun burned while laying out on my roof and then going out at night with my men haha! Today though, was our Gaucho Party. For those of you who don't know gauchos were/are the cowboys of Argentina. We visited an estancia (ranch) had some asado (bbq FRESH beef) and other goods foods. AND we got to ride horses!!!!! YAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!! It was a good time, I love horses mucho [View Full Entry]

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Not much to say about during the day. Went to the Museum of Contemporary Arts-closed, to the ‘Garden for Kids’ (rides and shows)-closed, Pichincha (area of note)-yawn. The architecture is magnificent though, and if we could stay longer, we would’ve. There’s a fair bit we’d liked to have seen or done, like taking the boat across to the Island or see the north of the city. Now though, we were looking forward to going to the meeting on Wednesday night. One brother, Lalo, in his 50‘s, accosted Callum straight away. (everyone loves Callum, with his blonde locks) [View Full Entry]

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In Rosario now, heaps to see…if you can’t get enough of monuments. Everywhere. Not enough memory on camera for them all. Very proud of their past. More in your face than at home I guess. Lots of night life here too, be better as a young couple eager to go out at night. Even after a siesta, we’re keen to hit the sack at midnight, just when things liven up. Dinner at 10, drinks afterwards. Too much for us…until now. Nah, but you could get used to it. We met the brothers after their meeting on Saturday night, about 8. They [View Full Entry]

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Well another week gone by....I can't believe it!!!! Classes are going well. Things are coming together nicely...it's getting to be not so tough to understand. There are still a lot of words that I don't know in my history class...and half the time I dont really know what they mean in English either! Politics and I don't really seem to get along lol. Thursday night we had a Tango Party. It was fun. There was dinner and a short lesson...I think i've decided that tango is fun to watch and do for shows but it's not much of a social dance....I [View Full Entry]

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Sitting on the bus to Rosario from Puerto Iguazu and finally writing again. NB: if you need to take the bus on a long haul trip, they’re great, but some are better than others. All show DVD’s and serve dinner, etc. We first took Cuerco del Norte, great. Wine with dinner, and even champers later on. Now we’re on Expreso Singer, not so good, especially if you’re 6’ or taller. Those few inches in leg space make a huge difference, as well as being a less tightly run unit. Anyway, Marianne and Callum are comfortable and that’s the main thing…apparently. [View Full Entry]

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Dag 98. Vi maatte sjekke ut av rommet innen kl. 11, saa vi hadde mange timer "aa slaa ihjel" for bussen skulle gaa. Vi fikk oppbevare sekkene paa B&B. Det er alltid slik de dagene vi skal reise videre til et nytt sted - at vi mentalt allerede er paa vei. Da blir det paa en maate som om vi gaar og venter paa aa kunne komme oss videre. I dag gikk vi tur langs elven, og satte oss paa en benk for aa spise lunsj. Vi spiste brod og paalegg som vi hadde kjopt paa butikken. Vi hadde flott utsikt [View Full Entry]

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Dag 97. Etter frokost (paa rommet) gikk vi til bussterminalen for aa se om de hadde bussbilletter til Montevideo i Uruguay i morgen. Vi provde hos 2 ulike busselskaper - men de hadde ikke avgang for paa sondag. Vi ble henvist til billettluken til Andesmar Uruguay. Der var det tomt - med en lapp paa skranken om at de var tilbake om noen minutter. Vi ventet. Noen minutter ble til nesten en time for det dukket opp noen. Det gikk buss imorgen kl. 23.50, saa vi kjopte billetter til den turen (175 pesos pr. pers.) Turen skal ta 10 timer. Saa [View Full Entry]

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Dag 96. Ahh, har hatt en herlig natts sovn. Sengen var helt topp! Frokosten ble servert paa rommet; kaffe/te, ferskpresset appelsinjuice, toast og syltetoy. Vi gikk paa formiddagen lang tur oppover elven Rio Parana, mot det moderne kaianlegget som ligger like for broen. Byen strekker seg 20 km. langs elven. Det virker som om det er mye baattrafikk paa elven ut fra det vi har sett. Vi snudde og gikk tilbake til sentrum, for vi gikk ned til Monumento de la Bandera. Monumentet ble ferdigstilt i 1957, og staar paa det stedet hvor det argentinske flagget ble heist for forste gang. [View Full Entry]

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So this weekend was another wonderful time of lack of sleep and lots of fun!!! Saturday I went and did some shopping with a couple of other girls from the states and bought some of the stuff i was wishing i had with me :-) and now i have it! Then I was supposed to meet my friend at an art show in the park, but she ended up getting sick so I went solo which was quite the adventure...safe, no worries, but still adventurous! There was lots of cool stuff...it was kinda multi cultural so they had people from Peru [View Full Entry]

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Dag 95. Siden vi hadde lagt oss saapass tidlig i gaar, var Eirik paa beina kl. 07:30. Cecilia i resepsjonen kunne da fortelle han at det saa ut som 15:30 baaten var innstilt (og det var for seint aa naa den som gikk kl.09:00). Da Jane vaaknet i halvni-tiden, diskuterte vi litt fram og tilbake om hva vi skulle gjore. Vi kunne vente til imorgen og ta baaten til Uruguay da, eller sjekke ut av hostellet og reise et annet sted. Det ble til at vi sjekket ut kl. 11:00, og tok drosje til bussterminalen for aa kjope bussbilletter til Rosario. [View Full Entry]

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